Musician. Composer. Recovering perfectionist. Minister-in-transition. Lover of puns. Hijacker of rock song references. Questioner of the status quo. I'm not really a rebel. Just a sincere Christ-follower with a thirst for significance that gets me into trouble. My quest has taken me over the fence of institutional Christianity. Here are some of my random thoughts along the way. Read along, join in the conversation. Just be nice.
Categories: tecknical stuff
If you are currently subscribed to this blog, and reading posts in Google Reader or some other reader…you might want to click through to the actual blog page for the next few days. And you should click through on the title of the blog, not the name of the post.
The reason I say this is that apparently Google Reader is having some trouble updating the feeds, and I might have posted something new that you aren’t finding in the reader.
Categories: food for thought, religion
Religion made faith easy and safe. It gave me a set of understandable measure markers, expectations, and boundaries so I could easily tell if I was doing good, or doing badly.
Religion put things in my control. It laid out the parameters for a desired result, and told me I could obtain that desired result if I met the requirements (i.e., prayed enough, read my Bible enough, said the right things, did enough good deeds, or what-have-you). It took the guesswork out of trusting God.
Categories: changing mindsets, food for thought, missional
Categories: random stuff
Categories: Rantings, what I did today
“Hijacked” is more like it.
Getting ready to leave to do my normal morning stuff (i.e., BLOG, get stuff at the store)…I walked into the garage to find water pouring out of the water heater closet, through the garage and halfway down the driveway. Figured out quickly the water was backing up through the water heater drain (not the water heater), apparently caused by a clog deep down in the pipes.
So I went to call the plumber. Opened my cell phone…my display is busted. Colors are going nuts on it, the picture is warped…I can’t even read the numbers. Oh, great.
Categories: food for thought, link love, Meanderings (look it up)
Mark over at Pragmatic-Eclectic has written a couple of great posts using Elijah’s time at the brook Cherith (1 Kings 17) as an analogy for the respite many of us feel after migrating out of the institutional church settings. I couldn’t possibly improve on what he’s said, so go read them here and here.
His posts have got me thinking, not only about where I am personally, but about our tendency to want to stay in places of rest. In particular this sentence stood out to me today:
“Over and over you will want to build a tabernacle and just stay in one place.”
Categories: food for thought, quotables, Things that are too good to keep
From ReJesus by Michael Frost & Alan Hirsch:
“To say that we are all made in the image of God is to acknowledge that there are certain, special qualities of human nature that allow God to be made manifest in us. It is a statement about God’s love for humans but also a statement about the uniqueness and beauty of humans. A belief in the imago Dei is not a denial of the inherent sinfulness of all people. To deny such is not only heretical, it’s just plain ignorant. The human race continues to give myriad examples of our depravity and potential for evil. Rather, it recognizes that God’s image is so indelibly stamped on our nature that not even the fall can completely erase it.”
Categories: church, food for thought, What the heck was THAT?
Categories: fun, random stuff
Okay, I made this brain teaser up myself just for you, so don’t laugh, okay?
Well, actually, you can laugh. Just laugh with me, not at me.
Whatever that means.
Anyhow.
During the entire three days The Director was shooting this week, we never rolled tape at the top of the hour. Can you guess why?
(I’ll drop a hint later today, if nobody can guess it by then.)
Categories: The Director
