A New Kind of Christianity


Brian McLaren’s new book, A New Kind of Christianity: Ten Questions That Are Transforming the Faith, drops tomorrow (Tuesday, Feb. 9).

I received a free advance copy from the publisher late last week and have been devouring it every chance I get (which with two toddlers at home hasn’t been that often).

In it, McLaren offers the top 10 questions he’s been hearing from people about the Christian faith as well as 10 responses to those questions (as opposed to answers — which are simply statements — which lead to hate and debate… he expounds much more on this in the first couple chapters).

So far I’m loving everything I’ve read. I won’t say I agree with everything yet (especially since I haven’t the full book yet) but what I’ve read is definitely in line with a lot of other things I’m reading and thinking as of late.

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Blogging The Simple Manifesto

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Over on We Live Simply, I’ve taken up a challenge by Steve Burleson to blog each of the 72 ideas within Leo Babauta’s Simple Living Manifesto.

I’m on the third point, I think Steve’s on point 5 today.

We’d love for you to join us.

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The Missional Church video

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A great simple explanation – in the spirit of Common Craft videos

Thanks to Jonathan Brink for the heads-up.

Saturday’s adventure

I went looking for an adventure Saturday while some folks were looking at our house (apparently they didn’t like the floorplan :-( ).

While I was out I thought I’d shoot some stock photos and video…

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What a cold, frustrating adventure!

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How I found heaven at What-a-Burger (hint – it’s in me)

Me in the morning :: Wednesday's Whatastudy

As part of our weekly What-a-Study men’s group on Wednesday mornings, we’ve been chewing on Ephesians for the last several weeks.

We’ve been taking it chunk by chunk, roughly 10-15 verses at a time and chewing on the passages with the symbol study that Aaron suggested a while back.

So this past week we were focused on the first portion of Ephesians 2 (Eph 2:1-10).

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Flip UltraHD review

For those of you who follow me on Twitter, you may know I purchased a new Flip UltraHD recently from Amazon.

I’m pretty excited about it.

I’ve had an original Flip camcorder since shortly after they came out — back when it was known as the Pure Digital Flip (before Cisco bought Pure Digital). I’ve shot numerous videos with it and loved it’s ease of use, size and simplicity.

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Weekly menu (01.31.10)

This week’s menu…

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Welcome to February

February 2010 wall calendar ~ happy valentine's day ~

Welcome to February!

Well, not quite I suppose — depending on when you read this.

But a few things to look forward to this month:

  • It’s Black History Month & the DCCCD African American Read-In
  • My sister Kara turns 25
  • Valentines Day
  • I turn 31
  • We’re scheduled to close on our new house in Forney at the end of the month…. YIKES! We still need a solid contract on our house!!!!

And a few things to look back on — aka the top posts from January 2010.

Honorable mention:
Top songs of 2009 – This was actually one of the top 5 viewed posts for the month, but it didn’t make the official list since I wrote it on Dec. 29, 2009 — it’s sooo last year :-)

Did you miss any of those? Were there other favorites that didn’t make the list?

What would you like to see more of?

Here’s to more great conversations in 2010!

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