Category Archives: Jesus

The Nicene Creed

I’ve been focusing on the Nicene Creed today. Especially this portion.
We believe in one Lord, Jesus Christ,
the only Son of God,
eternally
begotten of the Father,
God from God, Light from Light,
true God from true God,
begotten, not made,
of one Being with the Father.
Through him all things were made.
For us
and for our salvation
he came down from heaven:
by the power [...]

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Advent – Patience

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TransFORM

TransFORM: Missional Community Formation from TransFORM on Vimeo.
Missional pastors and practitioners talk about the joys and struggles of forming missional communities of practice
I LOVE this! And Stephanie Shepherd’s birthing analogy really hit where we are right now. Awesome.
ht: Mak

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Reconciliation, Sensitivity and Nonviolent Action

“There is no fire like desire. There is no weakness like anger. There is no happiness greater than peace. There is no relationship better than trust.” – Buddha

What is peace?
Here is one view: “The brief period of calm between conflicts.” Inspiring. Keep the dream alive, Military Industrial Complex.
(I seem to be thinking very abstractly today, [...]

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Nonviolence in Action

This post was inspired by this from Tony Jones and the comments that followed.
First, please realize, I’m really bad at math.
Throughout this decade and reaching back many years previous, Northern India has seethed with conflict between Muslim and Hindu. Unthinking vandalism or even a hotly contested cricket match can ignite conflicts that rage so frequently [...]

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