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When I preach well, it’s easy to say It’s not about me. When I preach poorly, I quickly and painfully realize how little I truly believe that. And I need to realize how little I truly believe that. When I…

I’m am in full smit (that’s right, fully smote) with two web-based apps right now… Pinger and Jott. Both allow you to send emails via a phone call, both do it slightly differently and both have me no longer banging…

A Friday around the room of people/places who dug/took issue with bob.blog recently (wherein bob shamelessly links to others who have linked to/mentioned him…uh, all in an effort to gin up some technorati points)… Middle Kid/Caught in the Middle has…

For those of you not on Brian’s email list, here’s a link to a PDF version of the document that was generated in the design meeting that took place March 3rd.
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I have my own opinions of the usefulness of these types of recommendations - but the first step is getting […]

This week we continue on in James… dealing with both the metaphor of God’s Word as a mirror revealing not only truth about God, but about ourselves as well. Also, pure religion is ……

It’s been a while since I wrote on this… And much of what preaching with dialogue is can really be inferred from my post on what it is not. But let’s think for a bit on what preaching with dialogue…

Barely out of college but living on my own, a good friend of mine called me up one day and asked me to meet him at the restaurant down by Union Station. Up until this time in all my years in Portland, I had not once set foot near that train station, l…

Okay… here’s the story. And yes, it’s funny. Kind of. At least, people keep laughing, so… Yesterday morning I was up around 3. In bed ’till 4, but up at 3. And then Jane started crying. So, I took her…

Last weekend, we made our regular jaunt up the hill to grab breakfast at O’Connor’s, and I have to say, we had the best service we’ve had there in a long time. I’ve blogged before about my particular hatred of sitting around for some interminable time waiting for a check after you’re done eating, and […]

Sometimes we focus so much on building a ‘healthy church’ that we forget to tend to the health of people. - Joe Myers, Organic CommunityIn the short, 3 year history of our little pub church, I’ve put only two books…