Entries Tagged as 'Hill Ministry'

Monday, July 2nd, 2007

Would God Use Me To Send Someone To Hell?

So how about it: Would God use me to send someone to hell?
It’s a question that has deep meaning for me, because it is rooted in a very specific moment in my story. That moment goes something like this:
About a year ago while I was still in ministry I had the opportunity to share the [...]

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Saturday, October 15th, 2005

Shenandoah Spiritual Retreat

For those of you who are interested in my ministry on Capitol Hill, next weekend I am taking a handful of guy staffers up to “my” cabin in the Shenandoah Mountains. This is the same cabin to which I went in July and had my amazing experience in silence and solitude.
The point of the trip [...]

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Monday, September 26th, 2005

Evangelism Training In Congress 2

Tonight I led our second week of evangelism training for eight congressional staffers. We began to explore Rabbinic Evangelism, the concept of following in the inspiration of Jesus by responding to questions with questions in spiritual conversations. It was great dialogue, but the best was at the end when these eight staffers stepped out to [...]

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Wednesday, September 21st, 2005

Evangelism Training In Congress

Last night, a vision began to be realized: my coworker Lisa and I started training nine congressional staffers using an evangelism training program I designed based on my observations of the emerging postmodern culture and in response to an eleven-page proposal I wrote three months ago. It is privilege enough to train and encourage people [...]

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Wednesday, August 24th, 2005

Article Clarification

Never in my wildest dreams did I think I would ever blog about an article in which a program I coordinate was addressed, much less an article in which I was quoted! While I thought yesterday’s LA Times article on the program I coordinate on Capitol Hill was, to borrow a phrase, “fair and balanced”, [...]

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Monday, July 18th, 2005

Communion On Capitol Hill

I just returned from a communion service I led for the small group I lead in the House of Representatives. Yes, that’s right, a group of staffers and I approached the Holy Supper for remembrance, reflection, and reorientation…right on Capitol Hill! Take that church separationists

See, this is EXACTLY what I am talking about when [...]

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Thursday, June 30th, 2005

Emerging Evangelism

Well, I just turned in an eleven-page proposal to my organization entitled Emerging Evangelism: A Proposal for Training Congressional Staffers To Evangelize In The Emerging Postmodern Culture. Whew!!! It is almost as long as my senior thesis for my Political Science BA! It’s basically a proposal to scrap our old method using another evangelism training [...]

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