In the comments of my last post, Chris and I began talking about the under-utilization (or waste) of church property. This reminded me of a conversation I was recently having with Kathy where I concluded that when I died, I wanted a simple funeral pyre… like the Vikings had.
We were working in the food pantry [...]

I completely ripped this off from Jeremy Pryor at Eden to Zion. He’s always got good stuff over there.
I was walking across a bridge one day, and I saw a man standing on the edge, about to jump. I ran over and said: “Stop. Don’t do it.”
“Why shouldn’t I?” he asked.
“Well, there’s so much to [...]

I was talking with Kathy the other night and she brought up a really interesting point. We were discussing personal training and exercise in particular, but I think the point can be applied to anything. She pointed out that mankind has this innate tendency to take Truth and bastardize it. For example in personal training… You [...]

We share the same biology
Regardless of ideology
What might save us me and you
Is if the Russians love their children too
This is sentiment was penned by Sting on his 1985 album, ‘The Dream of the Blue Turtles’. The song was written during the Reagan years in reference to the cold war. It points out the humanity [...]

Welcome to St Alphonso’s Life Point Fundamentally Emerging Fellowship. It’s a busy night at old SALPFEF (pronounced salp-fef), lots of activity… hope you enjoy the tour.
Trustees meeting tonight in multi purpose room. On the agenda tonight:

Which lawn service should we spend the congregations tithing on?
The silk paraments are getting a little dull, maybe it’s time [...]

OK, I’m going to pose a quick question…
Can any or all of you provide Biblical justification for not living together before marriage. Now I know all the verses about Marriage and I know all the ones about sexual immorality but I cannot seem to find any verses that specifically apply to living together. A “clear” [...]

Arrrghhh……..

I recieved this email today:
Every church and its employees want to feel confident that their compensation plan is reasonable and fair. We’re compiling The 2009 Compensation Handbook for Church Staff and would like you to help us by taking our survey. Your anonymous survey answers, along with other responses, will be summarized in the new [...]

OK, forgive the title, I’m just trying a ’shocking’ title to see if it improves my google hits…Â�
I have a friend who is a Seventh Day Adventist. I don’t know a whole lot about them except that they are an of shoot of the Methodist church and they place a huge emphasis on living a [...]

I found this article by Roger Thoman at HouseChurchBlog excellent. I really like his ‘list’.
“Sometimes it’s helpful to step back and ask the question: “Why are we doing this house church / simple church thing?”
Fame? Fortune? Prestige? Probably not!
Is it because this is the “Scripturally correct” thing to do? Well… I [...]