Currently Listening Your Man By Josh Turner Me and God see related

Finding a Job

I have several theories about finding a ministry position that I have learned from being at FBC Colorado Springs. Here are a couple:

1. Churches do not see youth or associate experience as experience for "real" ministry beyond youth and associate ministry. Thus, it seems I would have been better off looking for a pastorate right now if I was coming straight out of seminary. Interesting stuff!

2. No matter how big or small the church, churches tend to think of their church as the crown jewel of minsitry positions. There is a part of this that is very right. People should value their church, and the eternal work of the gospel it does. It seems to me, however, that people often have an overinflated view of their congregation's desirablity and an overinflated view of how caring and friendly and supportive they are of their staff and of staff leadership.

Currently Listening Make It Big By Wham! Sombody Tell Me see related

Quotes from "The Shaping of Things to Come"

The adventure has gone out of Christian venture (DH Lawrence p.6)

The kind of thinking that will solve the world's problems is of a totally different order to the kind of thinking that created those problems in the first place (Albert Einstein p7)

If Jesus were on earth today, he would be at a gay bar in San Francisco. He'd be working with people suffering from AIDS. These people are the new lepers. If you want to find out where Jesus would be hanging out, it would always be with the lepers. (Bono p. 25)

Currently Listening Time Well Wasted By Brad Paisley She's Everything see related

On Fundamentalism

Currently Listening I've Gotta Be Me: The Best of Sammy Davis, Jr. on Reprise By Jr. Sammy Davis I've Gotta Be Me see related

Crooner Crazy

I have this theory that the crooners have already begun to, and will continue to make a huge comeback in a big way. In one to two years, we will see teens wearing Louis Armstrong t-shirts (jeepers creepers would be good) and singing "I Did it my way".

Strangely, I see myself on the cusp of this trend.

Currently Reading AquaChurch: Essential Leadership Arts for Piloting Your Church in Today's Fluid Culture By Leonard I. Sweet see related

Quotes from Aquachurch

Warp speed can warp the soul (150)

For fast-aching relief try slowing down--lily tomlin

Resting is a divine prerogitive, not a sign of weakness or frailty (154)

Sabbaticals unleash and release energy that is latent in your life (158)

Fallow times and moments ass beauty to the soul, goodness to the hear, wisdom to the mind, and truth to the world (159)

Jesus was perfectly capable of laying out "Five principles to dynamic praying" and the fact he didnt should make us reflect (John Ortburg)

In popular Hebraic piety Satan was most fierce on three occassions: when you walk along a road, when you sleep alone in a dark house, and when you sail on the high seas (100)

Anyone who is popular is bound to be disliked (200--Yogi Berra)

Human Brian--38% developed at birth; mammalian brain 98% hardwired at birth (233)--implication is that we are hardwired to be continually developing and learning

Christianity is not a single system of thought, but a living, lasting exploration of the divine (237)

When I pray, miracles occur (258--William Temple)