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Re: Hitting the Road to See the Show

diecast — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 11:48:27 -0000

awesome. thanks for the recommendations, guys.

Re: Hitting the Road to See the Show

brad — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 14:09:17 -0000

go to founders or the hopcat. Both are downtown, near Van Andel arena.

Re: Hitting the Road to See the Show

sabbatical — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 11:27:08 -0000

Yesterdog is a pretty awesome chilidog/hotdog joint in "Eastown", sorta an older downtown area.

Re: Our Profession

diecast — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 00:33:45 -0000

me too... :)

Re: Our Profession

blake — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 20:21:54 -0000

awesome. i love it.

Re: A Future Worth Anticipating

diecast — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 15:58:50 -0000

thanks thom. i'm suddenly struck by the depth of that death and life motif. it's scary that we can take such a penetrating victory (that even overcomes death) and turn it into a promise of shallow gratification and proof that we are right and someone else is wrong. thanks for sharing your thoughts. i'll definitely check out that site.

Re: A Future Worth Anticipating

diecast — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 15:52:14 -0000

for sure, adam. It's so easy for us to ignore the fact that jesus repeatedly talks about an inbreaking of the future kingdom NOW. "the future has invaded the present" (david bosch)

Re: A Future Worth Anticipating

Thom — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 15:23:40 -0000

I enjoyed this quote. The paradox of death and life plays out fully in the cross: the death of the Messiah brings life to the whole world, the death of a Jewish Messiah brings forth a King for all nations, the death of the Second Adam leads not to a lineage of sin and pain but to abundant life.

Thanks for the comment on ThomTurner.com Make sure to check out http://www.everydayliturgy.com as well.

Re: A Future Worth Anticipating

sabbatical — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 12:53:13 -0000

And the funny thing about this is that it seems like a lot of Christians consign this future joy solely to the afterlife, becoming suspicious of anyone who tries to make these things happen here on earth. Case in point: humans living in harmony with the environment and animals, respect and harmony among people groups, swords being beaten into plowshears, our full creative capacity being set loose, etc. Our Christian utopia looks a lot like the hippie utopia some Christians seem happy to malign. That always puzzled me. Sure, the world around us is ultimately impermanent in nature and things will change a lot, but whatever happened to redeeming the moments, redeeming the culture, redeeming the world around us, and redeeming the body—in addition to redeeming the soul? Seems like sometimes everything except the soul is deemed not worth time from the "spiritual" point of view, when God himself was the one who called all this material reality "good" and made us it's caretakers (at least according to the Bible—but who cares to read that anyway when I can read Falwell / Rob Bell instead.)

Re: A Few Blog Recommendations

diecast — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 15:35:57 -0000

To be truly odd is, to me, one of the highest praises anyone could give or receive. :)

Re: A Few Blog Recommendations

michael lee — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 14:46:05 -0000

odd? ODD? an ODD collection of posts! actually, yeah, that pretty well describes our place. Glad you found us.

Re: A Few Blog Recommendations

jonathanbrink — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 13:43:17 -0000

Thanks friend.

Re: Christians vs. Christians

jonathanbrink — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 12:47:18 -0000

You beat me to the punch.

Re: Christians vs. Christians

Makeesha — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 11:52:57 -0000

I agree, esp. with your thoughts about how ill conceived this all was. Why would we as Christians want to do something like that? a ___ vs ____, it just seems very mean spirited. I don't have it out for reformed folks inherently any more than they do me ... there may be a few here and there but for the most part, the general population I think just wants to serve Jesus and if we can't get along while doing it we want to keep out of eachother's way. For an "agent" like out of ur to do this is baiting at best

Re: Christians vs. Christians

Bill Kinnon — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 11:46:43 -0000

Well said!

Re: Wall-E and Reconciliation

patrick — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 12:06:23 -0000

well said, i'm sure that we can honor God by the way we take care of the earth

Re: Rawdon Takes Over the Street

len hjalmarson — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 13:50:06 -0000

too cool..

Re: Rawdon Takes Over the Street

diecast — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 11:27:16 -0000

cheers, paul.
i feel that way about your community down there in texas. thanks you for the inspiration you have given me/us.

Re: Rawdon Takes Over the Street

paul — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 12:35:04 -0000

beautiful.

Re: Missional Reflections: Do More

grace — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 08:21:24 -0000

That is a very cool thought. I believe there is likely a strong connection between shalom and sabbath.

Re: Missional Reflections: Do More

diecast — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 23:40:35 -0000

definitely, Grace. I dont' remember right now where i heard it, but there is a theory that says that the sabbath was the pinnacle of creation and not necessarily man. one of the biggest parts of our makeup that we have failed to live out are the cycles of creative rest that were planned right from the start.

Re: Missional Reflections: Do More

grace — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 17:09:26 -0000

David,
This is an important corrective. It reminds me that Andrew Jones said in his post that one of the problems with the term missional is the underlying implications of activism and that God is a workaholic. While understanding missional is needed to overcome the church's lack of engagement, activism isn't necessarily the desired result.

Re: Missional Reflections: Do More

diecast — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 11:55:37 -0000

nice! that is exactly the imagery that is energizing me right now. thanks for dropping by, Pete.

Re: Missional Reflections: Do More

Old Pete — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 07:45:15 -0000

The thought that comes to mind is the need to be 'gardeners' rather than 'warriors'

Re: What Is Missional: A Story of Contrasts

sabbatical — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 13:50:39 -0000

north might be cambridge-way, dave, in which case you'd be driving by often once seminary starts! mark seems to be involved in the bridgeway foundation which is in cambridge.. (noticed from your blog, mark. and i know where bridgeway is cause i was thinking of applying to the grant program for our trade justice project. then we noticed the bit about needing to be a charity for 4 years. heh.)