On May 20th Antioch is having an “Art Sunday” where the message, music and service are built around biblical themes of art. Before the service, we will be displaying pictures, paintings and other works of art from those within the Antioch community. Many of these works will be available for purchase with the proceeds going
I just entered my 201st post on this blog… If I keep it up, I might actually write some things worth saying sooner or later!! :)
Rick Gerhardt is up to it again and has written a well-crafted little essay on the church to go along with our current series at Antioch. Click here to read Rick’s meditation on church (and, afterward, read most of what he has been writing lately as it is excellent!!)
Tamara just told me a little while ago that today is three years to the day since she, Mary Joy, and Esther flew up to Oregon as part of our move here. (I came along in the car a couple of days later). Crazy how quickly three years have gone!! (Here’s a picture from before
I used to love listening to The Allman Brothers Band when I was in college (I even made it to a concert once in North Carolina). I just played an Allman Brothers song on iTunes for the first time in a long time. It is called “No One to Run With.” It made me think
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I decided this week to launch into a three part in depth series on the church called “Mother Kirk.” Kirk is simply the Scottish word for “church” and Mother Kirk is a literary figure in C.S. Lewis’s allegory, The Pilgrim’s Regress. It’ll be fun as the series is built around the questions that people are
Something that always impressed me in the Gospels is when Jesus praises the faith of a Roman Centurian and heals his daughter. Jesus didn’t preach… he didn’t follow the man home… and he didn’t put conditions on his act. What he did do was praise the nobility, character and heart of a man who wasn’t
Lately, I’ve been revisiting the concept of church. I spent years while in graduate school thinking about the church, the structure of the church, the reasons for church, the benefits of church, the theology of church and ultimately a vision for church. Like all things that you over think, I gradually turned my attention away
I used to be really into personality tests. I have a pretty intuitive big picture personality so finding out why people are the way they are was lots of fun for me. (Of course, nobody likes it if you put them in a box so I always ran into trouble when analyzing people!!) Anyway, the
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Today I was able to sit in the crowd at an Antioch service for the first time in a while. I was kind of depressed. I’m probably the worst critic of the church, but I didn’t realize how many small (and big) things we still need to tweak, fix or improve. Oh well, I’d probably
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