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The Big Red Tractor
From Francis Chan:
Excellent!
How does your community of faith compare? Are you trying to push the Big Red Tractor with your own strength, or putting its true power source to full use?
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Building community dialogue
This Saturday I plan to meet with a number of folks interested in building community within our tribe.
The group will be made up primarily of our community group facilitators and hosts.
We’ll be working through our regroup material as some what of a refresher course and I hope to show this video from the TransFORM Network [...]
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5 reasons I love being in a small group
Abraham Piper (who has a great blog that you should be reading) shared 5 reasons he doesn’t like being in a small group this week.
I don’t disagree with his reasons, but thought I’d share the flip side – 5 reasons I love being in a small group.
I love watching people grow in their [...]
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5 Myths of Community
Found a great podcast featuring Mark Scandrette during my break. In it, he addresses 5 Myths of Community.
“If we want real community like the early church… we must be willing to embrace hurt and suffering… because love is costly.”
Sounds very counter-intuitive to the American dream and empire.
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The parable of the bar of soap
What can be said about a bar of soap and our faith and relation to the world around us?
Claudio Oliver has spent 20 years working with the urban poor, and on community development, dental and medical projects, team equipping, and teaching in Curitiba, Brazil.
He shares just a few of the reflections one small bar of [...]
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Co-op dinner time
It’s been a while since we’ve had one of our infamous dinner clubs at our house. I always had lots of fun having folks over for a themed meal — with everyone participating in the cooking and eating of the meal.
Granted, we do have our weekly small group which sometimes takes on the dinner [...]
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Bono to ground control – ‘Houston we have no problem’
Wow!
Resting up from a quick trip to and from Houston, Texas last night to see four Irish lads and their space station (aka U2’s 360 World Tour).
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Greg Russinger at The Idea Camp #icdc #justicefriday
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Lots of good stuff in there. Well worth the 25 minutes.
You can read my notes from watching it the first time.
What’d you think? What notes did you take? How will you take these ideas and apply them in your community?
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Read the Bible in 90 Days #B90X
So, I heard about a CRAZY idea while watching #thenines last week.
Someone has the audacity to think they can read through the entire Bible in 90 days! 90!
I have trouble reading through it in a year. (I even tried again this year and didn’t make it past January.)
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Why?
Questions of the day…
Why do you go to church where you do?
Or why don’t you go to church?
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