This is my 240th post.
Hold the applause please until after I receive my award, thank you!
I know it’s a little odd to celebrate my 240th post, but in the process of writing papers for graduate school and down right laziness I didn’t get around to celebrating my 200th. And because I need a kick in [...]
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I am sitting in Day One of a weeklong intensive class on Church Planting. One of my emphases for my Master of Divinity is Church Planting, in addition to Pastoral Studies.
It’s both an exciting time and overwhelming time for me. It’s a time for learning and a time for visioneering and dreaming about a plant [...]
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I lamented why this world seems so screwed up, where God is in the mix of all this screwed-upness, and what I am I to do in the face of all the screwed-upness in my own backyard (which truth be told is in a lovely culdesac in the exurbes of Grand Rapids, very far removed from all the screwed-upness…).
… I think I am still affected by being kicked out of ministry a year and a half ago…and feel I’ll never be good at being a pastor nor be able to “do ministry” again.
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I have left for an end-of-the-year spiritual retreat to get away and along with Jesus until January 1st. I am leaving my laptop at home, but have post-dated 2 posts that I hope you enjoy. One is a re-post from July on Following Jesus the .alt and Apple Way, another favorite that I hope will [...]
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Today I turned in my Confession of on the Doctrine of God. It is for my Systematic Theology 1 class and will be used for my future ordination. It is theological in substance, but not in language as much as possible. Though I’ve already turned it in, I’d appreciate comments and thoughts.
Prolegomena
A proper understanding of [...]
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In the great tradition of Thanksgiving testimonies, every blogger and their mom’s mom will post the top things for which they are thankful. Though I wanted to follow suit, I thought I would post on those things for which I am NOT thankful.For all of these eight things I’m not a bit thankfulbut I should [...]
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It’s an interesting thing what a near-death experience can do to your theology!
Up until Saturday evening I was on my way to being a full-on Open Theist and rejecting the hyper-sovereignty and hyper-transcendence of Calvinism. But, after experiencing what I did in my out-of-control vehicle and seriously sensing the the movement of God in the [...]
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