John La Grou and Len Hjalmarson created the idea of a participatory book, and I confess that I’m not all that sure what happens but I confess that you probably do. Anyway, they asked me to write a piece and I chose to write on the impact of blogs and media on book reviewing and sent it on to them. It will appear in this book that collects together a bundle of fine pieces. Here’s the press release. |inline Read more
Why does pumpkin pie taste better at home than in a restaurant? Turkey on a holiday? Why does wine taste better in Italy? Why does a hot dog taste better at the ballpark? A hamburger at the football game? A pizza in Chicago? Why is grass greener at a golf course? Why does the sun look bigger on the sunset? Why does Dickens read better in London? Why does Hans Christian Andersen seem better in Copenhagen? Why does coffee taste... Read more
Missional McKnights are landing and working their way to a hotel in Copenhagen as many of you look at this post this morning. We will be here (until next Saturday) to teach and fellowship with some like-minded missional Christians in Denmark at a conference called Oase. We will be south of Aarhus in a village called Odder. We are pumped. We are, like you, missioners of the missional Jesus. |inline Read more
A letter and a response: |inline Read more
There seems to be a rash of misspellers on my blog of late. My mom and dad, because my father’s father came from Scotland (one “t” kind of land), saddled me with a one “t” kind of first name and I have lived my whole life getting folks to spell that name correctly. |inline Read more
Missional Jesus was fearless; his missioners are exhorted to be fearless as well. Not reckless or foolish, but ones who do not fear what others say, who are not afraid to tell the truth, who are not afraid to live the truth, who are not afraid to confront non-kingdom with kingdom. Notice Matthew 10:26-33. |inline Read more
If anyone got their hopes high after Mark Noll’s book, Is the Reformation Over?, the answer is now officially “No!” Yesterday the Pope re-affirmed the RCC teaching that those who have lost connection with apostolic succession and authority have disconnected themselves also from the true Church. Which means that low church Protestants like me are not really in a “church.” Instead we are “ecclesial communities.” Which led me to thinking again last night about this: |inline Read more
Top Seven: 1. Great Wall of China 2. Petra in Jordan 3. Rio’s statute of Christ 4. Machu Picchu 5. Chichen Itza pyramid 6. Colosseum in Roma 7. Taj Mahal Drum roll…. |inline Read more
Missional Jesus was rejected; missioners of the missional Jesus will be rejected too. So Matthew 10:17-25. (Just make sure the rejection is due to being a missioner of Jesus.) Missioners of the missional Jesus, like Jesus, hang on until the end. |inline Read more
Regular readers of this blog know that I read novels as often as most of us visit our friendly dentist: Not very often! I’ve admitted to all of you that I try, but it’s about like some TV commentator, after I got to play Tiger Woods at Augusta, saying “Good effort Scot.” I just simply fail every time. But, I now make my second admission about novels: |inline Read more
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