Sometimes its easy to forget that first and foremost we are all humans. We crave community, love to eat good food and want to smile and laugh. Usually, we are so caught up in being “right” or trying to prove our way is the “best” that we forget the small simple things in life, like [...]

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This Sunday I will be sharing our vision for H.E.L.P. at Austin Mustard Seed, which is a new church plant in Austin started by my friend John Chandler. Looking forward to hanging with them & sharing my passion to fight glocal poverty. I love that John and his team are trying to create a global [...]

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It’s easy to get up every morning and just “do” life. We all got things to do, rhythms to maintain and aspirations to accomplish. I fear we try to do way-to-much with our own might-not with the Spirits power. I also fear that we’ve lost the wonder to have high expectations of our day, we just run [...]

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You can find a review of the intro here and chapter one here.  Some thoughts from chapter two:  The focus on chapter two is the need to ReJesus the individual as disciples of Jesus. The authors argue that the life of the disciple should directly be influenced by our Christology, and our Christology then directly influences our missiology, which then determines our ecclesiology. Basically our [...]

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Not sure if this is good or bad, but I don’t have any allegiances whatsoever outside of the Jesus story. I don’t have a certain tribe I run with or some sort of theological stream that I’ve attached myself to. I can listen to Rob Bell and Mark Driscoll and not have some-sort of panic attack. (although I do disagree with [...]

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woke-up tired and lazy! think we’re going to skip church and chill. i need to start reading for schooooooooool! # heading out for a run with the family! # Listening to Tyler Jones speak @vintage21, love that church. # @scottawade who led worship? in reply to scottawade # Arizona Cardinals are impressive, WOW! # Great [...]

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Before I review chapter one of ReJesus, I wanted to share some thoughts that Jonathan had here and here. Also, here is a link to an interview by Alan Hirsch via Ed Stetzer.  Quotes from chapter one:  “By dying for us to set us free from the penalty of our sinfulness, he doesn’t nullify the call to good [...]

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Today we pause, remember and celebrate the legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr. Tomorrow our nation will make history as Barack Obama will become President and possibly the most powerful man in the world. Yet two weeks ago Oscar Grant was gunned down in Oakland by a white police officer. Oscar was lying on the [...]

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hangin w/ the family from dallas. my girls are in heaven…house is LOUD, but lot’s of fun! # Video-Kenz singing/praying: http://tinyurl.com/86xyxp # my arm hurts-wii boxing is painful! # quick update: @jeffmangum dad is not doing good. they may do some sort of stomach surgery-still internal bleeding, please pray. # heading to mozarts and hulu [...]

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I grew-up in a multiethnic neighborhood in Northern California. When I was sixteen I went to a church camp; at that camp I become a Christian. The day we arrived back from camp I walked home (I was living with my older brother) and saw some yellow “crime scene” tape on the front door. So I [...]

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