So, for the last couple of hours, I haven’t been able to get a couple of things out of my head about the Antioch community that I’m really proud of. Thought that maybe if I wrote down some of the cool stuff I’d be able to clear my mind!! Here’s a list: Financial giving at […]
We made a new friend, Jon Leyse from Crash 31 Media, this past week at the conference in Chicago. Jon traveled up from Indiana on his own time to shoot video for us. It’s amazing meeting gifted people who donate their talents simply to give back to God. Anyway, on Wednesday, the Church Engagement Director for
Been sitting on the Tarmac in Chicago for an hour and a half. Found a WordPress app for the iPhone. Matt tells me the Latin root for “patience” is “to suffer.”
I’ve been thinking through something this past week that I’ll probably put into a full message. The main idea basically goes like this: there are people who call themselves Christians who are on an inevitable path to walk away from the church and God. I call these people Terminal Christians. In the past, when America
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The new Q&A Service at Antioch starts December 6th!! We’re calling it redux, which means “brought back” or “restored.” The whole idea is to restore the conversation. Religion is at its best when people are free to ask questions. It is at its worst when doubts, fears, questions, hang-ups, thought and issues are suppressed. Jesus allowed
Tamara is reading through C.S. Lewis’s The Chronicle’s of Narnia and came across this passage that I marked years ago in The Magician’s Nephew. We must go back a bit and explain what the whole scene had looked like from Uncle Andrew’s point of view. It had not made at all the same impression on
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When I took two weeks to travel Europe several years ago, I really studied the D-Day invasions of June 6, 1944. Part of the trip that Jon Lemke and I planned was to visit the Normandy beaches where the epic battles took place that signaled the coming end of WWII, and I wanted to know
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Don’t know if anyone’s thought of this before or not, but Tamara just coined the word “Notivation.” It means: No Motivation. We’re behind on sleep around here… so, we’ve got “notivation!”
Check out what Dorothy Sayers, a contemporary of C.S. Lewis, writes about the diminishing appreciation for literature in her time. I couldn’t help thinking that the same line of reasoning could be applied to the decline of appreciation for “church” within the Christian community in our time. It is amazing how we ride the tides
