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Archive for July, 2007

Walking with the Palmers

Posted in family, giving on July 29, 2007 | 1 Comment »

My wife and I — well really, just my wife — are putting together a team for Houston’s Race for the Cure. The event is October 6, 2007 and benefits the Susan G. Komen Foundation. The Komen Foundation funds breast cancer research and education. You can click here, if you would like to join us [...]

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The Other – Part 2

Posted in Everything, missional, theology on July 20, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

For much of my life I understood the Eucharist, the Lord’s supper, simply in terms of reflection upon Christs’ acts on my behalf. This was wrapped in an imagination that placed my personal status before God as the primary goal of Jesus’ self-sacrifice. While my personal status is important to both me and God, there [...]

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The Other – Part 1

Posted in books, missional on July 17, 2007 | 3 Comments »

I am proud to have gone to college at a university that sought diversity. They weren’t always good at it, they didn’t always reach their goals, but it was important to me that people of influence there were leaning toward greater participation from all kinds of people, even if we still struggle to understand all [...]

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The Wedding of the Century

Posted in family on July 11, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

If you’ve been checking this blog hoping to see what I was thinking, writing and leaving unedited, you’ve likely been disappointed that I have not posted in a while. The reason: Last week, my wife, two daughters and I flew cross-country to my brother’s wedding on 07/07/07. I dutifully and gratefully served as a groomsmen [...]

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On Being Non-”Missional”

Posted in missional, theology on July 3, 2007 | 1 Comment »

I am a believer is missional ecclesiology. For me, the issues and imagination of those talking, thinking and intentionally moving in missional ways, while not new, is exciting and necessary for the church as we enter into this evermore post-modern, post-Christian world. One question has been rattling in my head though, and interestingly Scot McKnight [...]

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?whY Phone?

Posted in Apple computers, consumerism, covet, iPhone on July 2, 2007 | 4 Comments »

Besides thinking that $500 is too much to pay for a phone and besides the fact that $60 is a hefty price per month, there is another reason why I can’t but an iPhone. After church yesterday one of our students caught a ride home with our children’s minister. As the two rode, the student, [...]

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