Some more notes from Dangerous Stories - this time covering Daryl Gardiner’s input
Book titles I’ve thought of writing:
“Failures and stuff-ups of 25 years of ministry”
“Bastards that I have met” and the first chapter will be an autobiography. The second chapter is a mirror with the title “The second worst bastard.” Then the third will be […]

Continuing the notes from Dangerous Stories.
Brian Mclaren #1
The world is formed by stories. Some stories have the power to heal and transform, while others can cause harm.
Think of our society system as having 3 gears – prosperity (what we think will make us successful), security (what we think will make us safe) and equality (what […]

I thought this was a profound article on some of the political ramifications of the Iraq war. Signposts was a blog who had started just before the invasion of Iraq. If you look back into the archives, I am sure you will find some heated debated over the Iraq invasion.
I was never accused of in […]

Andrew Chau - note taker extradionaire… sent me his notes from dangerous stories. I will be posting them up over the next few days. Thanks Andrew!
Alan Hirsch
“Blessed are you,
o lord our god
king of the universe
who has kept us alive sustained us
and brought us to this season
- to this moment.
Amen.”
(Ancient Hebrew Prayer)
I hope you get a […]

This morning, I have been searching for some inspiration for two Easter messages that I am doing. I stumbled across these words in my searching that articulated well, how I was thinking about coming up with something for our Good Friday service at Northern, as well as a easter reflection I am doing at our […]

It seems like lately I have been spending a heap of time talking about the arguments that are conducted in the comment threads of this blog. A couple of days ago I sat down and had an interview with Paul for some research he is doing into online interaction in the emerging church area. […]

Wayne poses an interesting question in one of the threads and I thought it worthy of its own thread:
“I guess the question I’m really asking is about the whole push for mission at all. Whenever I hear people talking about mission, changing the world, that it’s all about “them”, being missional, I get an uneasiness […]

Urbanmonk has a question for all Christians as a result of his recent job interview with WORD ™ bookstore, after being conflicted over the fact that he has recently grown a beard:
But wouldnt you know, the dude who interviewed me is a member of a clean cut suit wearing pentecostal church. In the middle of […]

In an episode which is bound to be a lot of fun for the wives and husbands among us, we have 1 Peter 3.
Wives and Husbands
1Wives, in the same way be submissive to your husbands so that, if any of them do not believe the word, they may be won over without words […]

Heh. For the last couple of days everyone I know has been talking about the same thing - making their picks for the SuperCoach comptetition. And so I thought to myself, how could I find 15 other people willing to engage in such a competition for my own craven amusement? So naturally […]