Spotify and the Famine of Excess
If you don’t know it, Spotify is an “iTunes killer” that organizes your music collection and will stream it to you from the cloud, but the big deal is that you can stream all other music out there. For $10/mo you can stream all music out there at a high-quality bit rate, and you can ...
This is How You Look Watching TV
I came across a photo gallery on Unplggd that I can’t get out of my head: Watching. Look at them. They are emotional blanks. They’re just gathering information, flatly, on whatever they are watching. I watch to much TV. I watch less than I did before having kids, but it’s still too much. I watched Desmond and ...
Missing Roger
I haven’t touched this blog in a while. In April we lost Alicia’s uncle, Roger Segler, and it sucked the wind out of me. I loved Roger and enjoyed his love, generosity, and hospitality. His was always a home full of love. Roger always referred to himself as a sinner when our conversations would turn to ...
Ministry Update: March 2011
We’ve now been back in Illinois nearly 7 months, and our plans and ministry work keep progressing nicely. I keep finding myself saying outloud: I love my job! I’ve been busy connecting with more people in Peoria, worshipping together as the initial core of the church plant, and developing the plan we will roll out ...
A Dunlap Mentality in the Center of the City
Sunday’s Peoria Journal Star featured a quote from city council candidate Chuck Weaver: How do you put a Dunlap mentality into the center of the city? I felt our Main Street corridor is the best place to do that. Our church plant seems to be centering in on the Main Street corridor, so this quote ...
My Interview With Rob Bell Without Rob Bell
First off, I don’t know much about Rob Bell. I’ve seen a few videos. They are extremely well made. I have never seen him in person, nor have I read one of his books. I did, however, catch the online chatter in the last few weeks about his new book Love Wins. I chuckled to ...
On Lent 2: Retreat
This Lent, God is speaking to our church plant core that Jesus’ ministry began with his retreat: the 40 days in the wilderness fasting that we observe during Lent. Rather than pushing ahead in ministry work after his baptism, Jesus begun his ministry by retreating for 40 days. There’s a principle at work in this ...
On Lent 1: Secrecy
So I was all ready to write a post on what I’m doing for lent when I read this from Kyle Wallace: Pursuing personal piety for Lent? Make sure secrecy is part of it “and your Father who sees in secret will reward you.” Kyle, thanks for the reminder, straight from Jesus. photo by Stephen Dagnall
Dude Just Cut Me Off
The dude just cut me off and now he’s driving slower than I was going. The lack of logic is simply infuriating. There’s no one behind me. He’s a slow driver. He should have waited for me to pass. This happened to me this week and as I purposely started to ride bumper, I start ...
Thoughts on Winter Conference
February 9-12 I attended the Anglican Mission’s Winter Conference in Greensboro, NC. I love this event. The Anglican Mission runs their annual conference as a time of worship and learning (not committees and resolutions). I spent much of my time chatting with friends, picking the brains of leaders, and having a blast with some Anglican ...
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