A first-grader’s prayer for peace
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UNconference planned for June 11-12 in Denver.
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If you have recently planted or are thinking about planting a church, you should check out this training.
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A prayer for the church to be formed as a sign, instrument, and foretaste of God’s kingdom on earth.
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A responsible and practical way to be of real help to Haitians suffering in the wake of the earthquake.
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JR Woodward (who I saw yesterday at the Missional Learning Commons) blogged a prayer by N.T. Wright that I have found profoundly helpful over the past few years. It’s an expansion of the “Jesus prayer” (Lord Jesus Christ, have mercy on me, a sinner) into a more holistic, Trinitarian prayer. It’s easy to memorize, and [...]
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This evening before hearing the Scriptures we will be praying this prayer (by Brueggemann):
Holy God – in this precious hour, we pause
and gather to hear your word -
to do so, we break from our work responsibilities
and from our play fantasies
we move from our fears that overwhelm
and from our ambitions that are too strong.
Free us in [...]
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One of the things I said at the vision meeting we had a few days ago was that I was not very interested in simply building another “church on the corner” for people to get their religious fix for the week. What I’m really interested in doing, and what our community is longing to head [...]
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The folks at Missional People have come up with a great list of 10 Missional Myths, meaning that all of the following statements (taken from their website) are false.
Missional is a new trend that seminarians and pastors came up with in order to sell books.
Missional means that you water down the gospel.
Missional means that you [...]
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HT to JR Woodward for posting this prayer by Walter Brueggemann. I needed to pray it today.
Salvation Oracles [On reading Isaiah 43:1-5]
There is a long list of threats around us:
terror,
cancer,
falling markets,
killing,
others unlike us in all their variety,
loneliness,
shame,
death -
the list goes on and we know it well.
And in the midst of threat of every kind,
you appear [...]
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