I’ve been busy in Slovakia on a high school service project for the past week, but found some time to participate in this little exercise. Neal Locke tagged me to answer the Presbymeme. Click here to find out what this is all about. As you read this post, let me disclaim that my answers are [...]
Archive for March, 2008
Presbymeme
Posted in church, tagged blogs, church, Memes, Presbymergent, Presbyterian on March 28, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Reflections on Gore
Posted in Theology, Uncategorized, tagged blogs, Crucifixion, Easter, Jesus, Theology, Violence on March 22, 2008 | 3 Comments »
No, this post actually has nothing to do with “An Inconvenient Truth” or the 2000 Presidential election. What’s actually on my mind is graphic violence and the crucifixion story. A couple recent incidents have me thinking about the central images of the central narrative of the Christian faith. First, I read this article about [...]
An Alt-worship Plan for Easter
Posted in Worship, tagged church, Worship, Youth Ministry on March 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Shannon and I put together an experiential worship event for our Service Project team this weekend. It went over really well – students and adults alike gave us tremendous feedback. The documentation to the event is linked below. Feel free to download it, use it, share it, modify it, whatever. If the Word doc doesn’t work for [...]
Welcome to Logomanikos
Posted in Life, tagged blogs, random on March 17, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Hi there! I’ve been blogging for a couple months now, but I finally feel ready to invite the world to my little corner of cyberspace. You may be here because you were on my “email everyone I know” invitation. I promise that will be my only spamming – no mass “hey check out my new [...]
Feeling, Smelling, Tasting – Green
Posted in Theology, tagged Holiday, Illustration, Jesus, Theology on March 17, 2008 | 1 Comment »
“Our doctrines are not photographs of Reality. They are the attempted description of heavenly things by means of the hints and guesses which earthly things provide.” – From Tensions by H.A. Williams.
Jesus didn’t talk in doctrine. He talked in parables and figures of speech quite a bit. “The kingdom of heaven? Well, it’s kind of [...]
…and a Wookie in a Pear Tree
Posted in Humor, tagged Humor, Movies, videos on March 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I can only assume this was before George Lucas assumed iron-fisted control of the “Star Wars Universe”. Maybe this is even what caused him to do so:
Happy Life Day, everyone!
A Gracious Posture Toward Apologetics
Posted in Theology, tagged Apologetics, blogs, Theology on March 14, 2008 | 1 Comment »
This article on apologetics is fantastic. I am a modernist thinker who is slowly learning to live and move in a postmodern world. As much as I begin to appreciate and adopt postmodern values, I don’t know if I’ll ever stop thinking in a modern way. Jan gives some good thoughts about living with this [...]
iTunes Playlist Contest – Winner #2
Posted in Music, tagged culture, iTunes Contest, Music, Youth Ministry on March 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Wherever the Wind Blows by Pillar
Angels and Heroes by Brian Littrell
Here I Go Again by Casting Crowns
Burn For You by Toby Mac
Into The Night By Santana
Other Side of the Radio by Chris Rice
Ooh Ahh by Grits
Here In Your Arms by Hellogoodbye
How Far We’ve Come by Matchbox Twenty
Sweetest Girl by Wyclef Jean
Hey There Delilah by Plain [...]
Presbymergent
Posted in church, tagged church, emergent, Presbymergent on March 12, 2008 | 3 Comments »
I am now listed as a Presbymergent Blogger. Regarding the “presby” part, I don’t know that I have any special loyalty to the Presbyterian church, but I am a member of one. More importantly to me, this is my first step at actually getting personally involved in something I’ve been only observing from the outside [...]
iTunes Playlist Contest – Winner #1
Posted in Music, tagged culture, iTunes Contest, Music, Youth Ministry on March 11, 2008 | 2 Comments »
For a youth minister, I feel like I’m terribly out of touch with current popular music. My staff and I joke about the fact that I don’t have anything newer than ten years old on my iPod. Actually, that’s not a huge exaggeration. So I had this idea the other day for how I could [...]
