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Fermenting on Advance09

June 9, 2009

I spent Thursday, Friday and Saturday of last week in the Durham, NC area at the Advance09 conference. It was a conference about the resurgance of the local church. I’m not talking about a political power and I’m not talking about something that involves violent war metaphors, protests and bait-and-switch events. In the past decades [...]

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Oh Ecclesiology

January 15, 2009

Ran into a road block today on differring views on church, para-church and worship. I think it will end up being a great discussion. I have strong views on some of the stuff, but I am realizing that I don’t know if I can articulate them or back them up very strongly. I like having [...]

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excerpts from my journal – #3 Goldilocks and the church

August 19, 2008

As I read and learn more and more about the history of the basic branches of the Protestant church I find that the pattern of too-hard – too-soft – just-right in almost every run down of their distinctives and doctrines. There are issues of the “real presence” in communion, baptism (both child and believer’s), church [...]

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Community

June 1, 2008

It is both fortunate and unfortunate; the occurrences of the past week. I really feel that within the past week that Carrie and I really have started to connect with and develop some friends in the area that are totally outside of our team. It has been a bit depressing with all of the people [...]

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New Goal

January 16, 2008

Two weeks ago our pastor spoke a bit on setting life goals. As I’ve worked on them as well as some year goals, quite a few of them have turned out to be quite nerdy. One of my goals for this next year is to post something of substance at least once every other day. [...]

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