ever wonder about all those things that we do not have to do anymore? well now you can add to the list. courtesy of obsolete skills wiki. though i must admit, i did have to scrounge around for a slide film projector for a corporate friend who’s speaker person requested one.. his company didn’t have one, so who would have such an old piece of equipment? well the church of course. i had two with some extra reals to boot. we got a kick out of setting it up and testing it.
a letter from dean
in response to some of the craziness over @ john’s blog about the recent decisions at foundry umc. john’s blog has exploded with conversation. pastor dean snyder has sent john a letter giving some incite into how they came to the decision they made.
tuesday randomness
- maggie dawn is taking questions to ask the archbishops of canterbury and york
- photographing the homeless is banned.. tip chris wage, note this is satire
- as one in the youth minister profession, i feel like this guy a lot. tip marko
- a place for the nashville dad. tip rob
- writing more effective emails
- a future s.a.t. question
- a cool & creative way to pump water in third world countries. via ariah
- how interruptions make you more creative
- full version of the latest nooma video for the next 48 hours
- church sex abuse in the sbc, by the nashville scene
the problem with the Lord’s prayer
The problem with the Lord’s Prayer is neither its content nor its historicity, but its familiarity. Many congregants don’t actually think of the meaning of the words or, if they do, find only comfort rather than a challenge. Little children still happily conclude that the deity’s name is "Harold" fear that the major sin they might commit is trespassing on someone else’s lawn, adn earnestly hope that they are never led "into Penn Station." When placed in a first-century Jewish context, the prayer recovers numerous connotations that make it both more profound and more political. It fosters belief, promotes justice, consoles with future hope, and recognizes that the world is not always how we would want it.
the Misunderstood Jew: the church and the scandal of the Jewish Jesus, by AJ Levine
how true.. and it made me giggle too
update: those crazy folks at church of the resurrection are talking up the Lord’s Prayer as well.
my idea for general conference
i put into my write up as a general conference delegate. it is my hope for general conference.
A principle need of the church, as I see it, is to name and pull away
from the practices that make the church "of the world." I share with
our church that we are unique people joined together by Christ, and
being unique we are not bound by labels and stigmas of liberal or
conservative as the culture knows and reacts towards them. If we are
able to break from this practice of placing each other then we are able
to start to become the church and then start to examine and discuss the
business and practices of the church.
too bad i missed out on getting elected so i can’t live this out as a delegate, but maybe we can encourage other who are.