Category Archives: Thoughts

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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Still Defining Missional

Obligitory link to the Missional Syncroblog from a few years ago.
The term missional suffers from continued confusion. Lately I think to too many Missional means "I’m not Emergent but I am still progressive!" And it is still easily captured by those who see nothing of value in institutional christianity. "Missional means getting away from crusty [...]

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Through the River

Tomorrow morning I need to get up early and head to Rawdon Street to finish preparing to lead the reflecting and worshiping of our church community.
Tonight I’m outside smoking a cigar and drinking cider and beer. And I’m reflecting on the decade that has lead me here.
And at the beginning of 2000 I was taking [...]

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Faith

Faith moves.
It seeks out new places where it can become faithful.
Faith means going out the door,
not waiting inside for something to happen.
Faith breathes.
Inhaling deeply of the air that contains it.
It welcomes the truth that floats on the wind,
that lives in the song of a child in the playground.
Faith is fearless.
It searches for the dark places [...]

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Sophia!

What a blur these last few days have been!
Sophia Faith came to live with us on Thursday afternoon after only about 7 hours of labour. Amy’s water broke at 5am and we headed to the hospital where her contractions began and quickly escalated. By noon the nurse was calling for her doctor to come for [...]

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