- church notes: we started a new series on the books of James and Colossians this sunday...we'll spend several weeks trying to integrate the teaching of these two books (there's a lot there and it's been really exciting to work on this with chip!) check out the podcasts each week...
- also, my small group is getting going again...we're going to read "Sex God" by Rob Bell...i'm exciting to see what comes out of reading this together.
- i got a job with the rec center supervising soccer league games and keeping score of softball games...easy and good money!
- i started reading eugene peterson's newest book: "The Jesus Way: a Conversation on the Ways that Jesus is the Way." The intro is worth the price of the whole book...with his new theology series, eugene is rapidly moving up the list of favorite authors...here are the first five sentences:
"This is a conversation on the spirituality of the ways we go about following Jesus, the Way. The ways Jesus goes about loving and saving the world are personal: nothing disembodied, nothing abstract, nothing impersonal. Incarnate, flesh and blood, relational, particular, local. The ways employed in our North American culture are conspicuously impersonal: programs, organizations, teachniques, general guidelines, information detatched from place. In matters of ways and means, the vocabulary of numbers is preferred over names, ideologies crowd out ideas, the grey fog of abstraction absorbs the sharp particularities of the recognizable face and the familiar street."
and it only get better from there...
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