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Differing Expressions of Love

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Categories: food for thought, Meanderings (look it up)

Kathy over at the carnival in my head wrote a vulnerable post about her continuing struggle with getting her “buttons pushed” by “big church” goings-on. This statement pretty much sums up her feelings:

“i can easily live with atheists, notorious sinners, the least of these, and almost anything in between. the people i have the hardest time living with are the ones who are dedicated to a system that i fundamentally disagree with. how can i offer them as much grace as i have myself received and can pass on to many others?”

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Signs of the Hand of God

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Categories: Meanderings (look it up)

There is so much I could write about our trip to Denver. I could tell you how beautiful the scenery was, how friendly the people were, how interesting and varied the weather was.

But if you’ve been to Denver, you already know that. And if you haven’t–see the paragraph above.

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Best of LMR: "The View from Here"

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Categories: Meanderings (look it up), My Story

Reposted from March 2008.

I spend a lot of time here in the ongoing process of “de-constructing”–in other words, processing my thoughts and discussing the issues about the institutional forms of Christianity that are now in my rear-view mirror. That de-construction is necessary, and a lot of fellow bloggers are documenting their own similar journeys.

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Best of LMR: "Constipated Anointing"

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Categories: fun, Meanderings (look it up), What the heck was THAT?

Reposted from January 2008.

I’m about to get a bit irreverent and share a funny, sad, true story. ::Inserts tongue firmly into cheek…::

A number of years ago I was invited to lead worship for a week-long campmeeting at a church in Bakersfield, California. Right away I noticed that the pastor of this charismatic Word-Faith church had a distasteful beat-the-sheep leadership style, and that he had something to prove. Anyway, he announced that the last night would be an anointing service, where he would lay hands on and pray for anyone who wanted it. He pumped this up as the climax of the campmeeting, and that last day he went into seclusion to pray and fast, denying his flesh and all distractions so the Holy Spirit would honor his faith and move upon the people.

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Even More Ramblings About Calling…

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Categories: food for thought, Meanderings (look it up)

I have been rambling on a bit about how my perception of one’s “calling” is changing. Time to ramble a little more…

I’ve gotten a lot of “prophetic words” in my lifetime. And a lot of it has been what I’d call “fluff” (some might have stronger words for it, but that’s what I call it, anyway)–just ear-tickling, good-feeling-evoking, ego-puffing-up words about destiny. (When you find yourself in a platform ministry position, it’s amazing how many people want to prophesy over you.)

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More About Calling…

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Categories: food for thought, Meanderings (look it up)

In a recent post, I was pondering a paradigm shift I’m going through about the idea of one’s calling. I closed with this statement:

“I still believe that there is such a thing as a “calling”. I just think it runs deeper than many of us realize–that it has more to do with how God has shaped us than what we end up doing with it.”

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Now that I’ve Calmed Down a Bit from My Last Post…

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Categories: Meanderings (look it up), Rantings, whine-and-opine

…I’ll turn the comments back on. (But mind your manners.) 🙂

As you can tell from my last post…I have a bit of a temper. It’s a lot more controlled than it used to be.

One of the defining character traits of my son The Director is his passionate distaste for injustice. Anytime he sees someone unfairly dealing with another, or bullying, or oppressing, or slander, or anything like that–he is fit to be tied. He gets as angry as he would if it were happening to him. He’s seen enough injustice dealt to his parents in ministry–seen leadership wrongfully treat us, seen people we loved and cared for turn around and abuse us, accuse us and slander us, while we remained silent, unable to defend ourselves without making things worse. And he’s experienced some of that injustice himself. He simply has no stomach for it.

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Quotes of Note

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Categories: Meanderings (look it up), random stuff


Hat tip to Kathy at “the carnival in my head.” In a recent post, she had this idea of sharing the more memorable quotes that had happened in her life. I thought it was a cool idea, so I’m stealing it. (Actually, more like “borrowing” it.)

Here are some of the more memorable quotes in my life, in no particular order…

“Good people do bad things.”
–A chaplain at ORU, trying to explain to me the politics behind the firing of our campus worship leader, for whom I had played the piano during my freshman year.

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Re-Thinking Worship (Part 4: Expansion, not Replacement)

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Categories: food for thought, Meanderings (look it up), worship

I’ve mentioned in the previous posts in this series that I’m in the process of re-shaping my whole paradigm of worship. J.R. Miller left a comment that highlights an important point here, and one that deserves clarifying. Here’s a quote from his comment:

“The emphasis I get then is, not that you are seeking tear down what others are doing or what many enjoy, but seeking to “worship” through music in new and diverse ways.”

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