For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who by their unrighteousness suppress the truth. For what can be known about God is plain to them, because God has shown it to them. For his invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made. So they are without excuse.
Verge 2014 Notes – Redeemed for Incarnational Justice
At the end of this, my brain was mush. I think it was more the fact that they had the band come out, sing worship songs and have a prayer time and then surprise us with another 30 minute speaker when it was supposed to be over that wore me out. Knowing how […]
WCAGLS Session 9: Vijay Govindarajan: Innovation
Session 9: Vijay Govindarajan: Innovation Innovation is reacting to change. How many things you are doing today go in box one? Manage the Present. (efficiency) Selectively forget the past Shape the future How do you do innovation and efficiency all at the same time? That's what counts. Continuously improving the quality of what we do […]
Global Leadership Summit 2011, Part 3: Brenda Salter McNeil
When you go among people that are so radically off from you culturally, it takes a lot of work to figure out what discipleship looks like in their culture. (personally I’m still trying to figure this out in American culture!)
…This was a great moment and I think I would have done well to just go and pray for a bit, or have all of us pray for a bit, but conferences are what they are, and when McNeil was done they launched some cheesy video advertising something.
Living by the Pattern of Pilate in 2010
The perspective of Pilate being blackmailed by the Jewish leaders sheds a lot of light on this section for me. It is so crazy that he would have Jesus flogged and pretty much give the Roman soldiers license to do whatever Pilate had Jesus scourged in hopes that a scourging would be enough to make […]
Postcard from Cashland
So we just got a postcard in the mail for the previous residents of our house. It should be noted that our house was a foreclosure and we bought it from the bank. The postcard is from CASHLAND, a paycheck loan place in town. It says ‚ÄúBecause we have missed seeing you for a while, […]