Bono Wants Your Soul…

Bono wants to know where your soul is this year.
I come to lowly church halls and lofty cathedrals for what purpose? I search the Scriptures to what end? To check my head? My heart? No, my soul. For me these meditations are like a plumb line dropped by a master builder — to see if [...]

Cha-cha-Changes, one step at a time.

I’m inspired by ordinary radicals who work with what they’ve got to change the world one step at a time.  I don’t actually know if things will be different for the world…or simply if something is internally different for them…either way, this is a pebble in a pond…life in the Way of Jesus (and for [...]

Hanging

No great epiphanies on this post…
It’s interesting, after over ten years of pursuing the church in a certain stream with definitive next steps, ambitions, anticipations and dreams, Jessie and I find ourselves downshifting into a new gear.
Uncertain about next steps, no specific ambitions to build or borrow, no form and function to protect and invest [...]

What might the prophetic look like today?

Have you been left desolate suburbs and city streets?
Have you been withered away and wrenched apart great arctic glacial flow?
Do you fail to gather grain?
Do your crops of corn and wheat and hops cease to grow?
Where are your customers you tower’s of economy and produce, McDonald’s and Starbuck’s?
Where are the sounds of laughter or children [...]

is this the fast?

…getting noticed…
and that is what most of this is about…
we speak and long to be heard.
we act and need to be noticed.
we think and need to be thought well of.
by each other. by god. by anyone who will comment on the blog. by our friends. by our neighbors. and this is the heart of witnessing. [...]

Sodomy Anyone?

Then God said to Abraham “The cries of the victims in Sodom are deafening, the sin of those cities is immense. I’m going down to see for myself, to see if what they’re doing is as bad as it sounds…” Genesis 18:17-21
The cries of the victims…it reminds me of another crying out that happened that [...]

U2 says it all some days

I want to run. I want to hide. I want to tear down the walls that hold me inside. I want to reach out and touch the flame–where the streets have no name.
I want to see sunlight on my face. I see the dust cloud disappear without a trace. I want to take shelter [...]

Those on the left (MATTHEW 25 REMIX)

Kevin Beck over at Presence posted a great REMIX of Matthew 25, this is last portion of it, check out the rest here:

“….Then the King turned to those on his left hand and said, “You walked away from me when you opted for the best pews and chairs instead of building a well for my [...]

more to come and masucline spirituality.

more to come on “Does the Bible Make Sense?”–I promise,and other things also (I am just slammed for the time being)….but until then…
A quote from Richard Roh
This deals with the topic of Male Spirituality and is from his book called “From Wild Man to Wise Man“:
“A masculine spirituality emphasizes movement over stillness, action over theory, [...]