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when enough gathers, you have to fall somewhere

Entries for April, 2008

making the church safe for radicals…

I was listening to some of the recorded plenary sessions from the recent AALC (www.sdaalc.org), specifically a message from Ken Fong.  He was saying that one of the hardest transitions is for people who return to their home church from a period of intense missions, whether it be overseas, inner-city, long or short term.  From [...]

change and marriage

One aspect of marriage a commitment to change.  The wedding is like the point of justification, as the process of sanctification is to marriage.  I’m committed to seeing and being apart of God shaping and molding Jenn into the person he plans her to be.  I take joy in that.  I’m hopeful and expectant of [...]

on the topic of children and age…

Last Friday Jenn and I attended a seminar at Bethel on the theology of children.  It sparked a lot of interesting ideas about self reflection about Sunday school, the church, and our general attitude about children.
During the question and answer session attendees were bringing up the point that education, spiritual and scientific has been feminized [...]

rumblings from the book table

Jenn and I had an interesting connection this week coming home from our weekly book table working at church.  Lately we’ve been feeling pretty sad / discouraged / frustrated with the book table and I think that one of the possible sources is that we feel like an unwanted street vendor.  We were feeling like [...]

Since my last post, much has happened…

much has happened, much has yet to happen.