Matthew | November 30, 2010
I love restoration history, but I have not read much historical history about America. I wanted to read this book because Charity was doing a homeschool lesson on the pilgrims and the Mayflower. She even made a Mayflower boat out of cardboard and made customs for the kids. Since it seemed everyone else was learning [...]
Matthew | November 29, 2010
Probably most people that read this blog have no idea that Charity and I have been in the process of adoption for almost a year now. We are adopting a child from China. It kind of feels like Charity is pregnant again because we are waiting for this special child to come to us. It [...]
Matthew | November 23, 2010
As most people know, I am working on a dissertation on missional transformation for the local church. It seems that most missional people are planting missional churches, mostly because it is hard to transition a congregation. I am one of the few that are working in an established congregation a long these lines. Of course, [...]
Matthew | November 22, 2010
It has been some time since I reviewed a chess book. 14er season is over so I am switching to more of the indoor passions. It seems that every now and then I go through a chess kick. I will play for awhile and then stop playing. I started reading this book because it was [...]
Matthew | November 19, 2010
I remember being at a lectureship a few years back. There was a young student that was about to graduate from a preaching training school. I asked him what was his next step. He said he was going into the pulpit. I asked, “are you going to school anymore?” “No,” he said, “I already know [...]
Matthew | November 17, 2010
This book could be dangerous in the wrong hands. This text is far from a Christian book on leadership. In fact, it makes fun of some of the other books on leadership that are produced by the business and church culture. He argues that these books are written after the fact, and idealized the raise [...]
Matthew | November 16, 2010
This Saturday the Castle Rock congregation will be having a booth during the starlighting event in the city of Castle Rock. I heard reports of over 100,000 people being at this holiday event. The starlighting is a yearly tradition in which the community comes together to watch the symbolic star light up to connote the [...]
Matthew | November 15, 2010
This past Sunday, Charity and I celebrated two years of ministry with the Castle Rock congregation. It is hard to believe that we have served with this church for two whole years. It was a huge leap of faith to travel across this nation to the long distant land of Colorado. I was already long [...]
Matthew | November 11, 2010
This is going to be in the bulletin this week. It provides a little background to the congregation of the root of the missional journey. Here it is: Probably you have started hearing this term “missional” in the congregation. More than likely, you realized that this has something to do with reaching out to the [...]
Matthew | November 10, 2010
I love these types of books. Though, I read about Scott Fischer story on a beach in perfect 80 degree weather, while reading the pages filled with his adventures to the summit of Mt. Everest. I could feel his cold bones through the pages while my bones were toasting on the sand. This is a [...]
