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Emerging Church Resources: A Beginners Reference Guide
When people find out that I am one of Ryan Bolger’s understudies I get asked what I think of the emerging church and frequently what resources are good for people interested in finding
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Putting Ads on Blogs: And Why I Can’t Do It Anymore
I’ve debated over the topic of whether I should have advertisements on ol’ gathering in light since I starting using wordpress back in February. Some of you have noticed the on and off
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NT Wright – Retelling Stories: Alternate Histories and the Lord’s Prayer
Mike Work, writing on his class blog recently, wrote a great short post about Jesus’ way of being a storyteller. He writes, In his [NT Wright] words, Jesus made a regular practice of retelling
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Reflecting On Your Influences
Every now and then it is a good idea to consider the influences you have in your life, maybe a lull in grace??? as Patrick has called it, is a perfect time. I first
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Qaddish and The Lord’s Prayer: Jesus’ Subversive Tactics
In this continuing series on the Lord’s Prayer I am looking at the Jewish prayer known as the Qaddish, and comparing it to the Lord’s Prayer. When we compare these two prayers
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Bike to Work Day: Communities and Sustainable Life
[Updated] Thursday, May 18th was Bike to Work Day. The city of LA and its surrounding suburbs participated in various activities and sponsored prizes in hopes of encouraging people to ride their bikes to
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The Paternoster – A Formative Christian Practice for All Followers
I’d like to frame the next group of featured” posts that will be showing up here on gathering in light. I will be continuing to post my thoughts on the Lord’s Prayer,
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Left Behind Eternal Forces – Violence for Christians
Today in the Los Angeles Times, there is an article about a new Christian” video game: Left Behind: Eternal Forces. The game aims to make a broadly appealing video game, similar to Grand Theft
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A Short Prayer Service with The Lord’s Prayer
Getting back on track of doing some work on the Lord’s Prayer I thought I would offer a simple prayer service we used for small group a while back. This could work as
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How to Get Started Blogging
This is a second post on blogging, one that is more directed toward beginners (and is much shorter). I’ve decided to write this as a resource for friends and the students I TA
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Humility and The Lord’s Prayer: April Ping Homily
This is my ping homily for April, there are still two weeks left for all of you to participate. If you are interested jump over to Shawn’s explanation of the project. Since I
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Lecture Today and Intro to The Lord’s Prayer
Today is my first chance to lecture in a classroom setting. As I have been preparing over the last couple weeks, I have found that I will never get it the way I want
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Hey Man Slow Down: The Art of Friendship Behind The Screen IV
I need to finish this series of four articles on Technology and how its affecting our lives in positive and negative ways before it gets away from me. When I first sat down to
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O Gracious Light: When Light and Darkness Find Each Other
You are the light of the world. A city built on a hill cannot be hid. No one after lighting a lamp puts it under the bushel basket, but on the lampstand, and it
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How to Blog for Theology and Religion
I’ve been thinking for sometime about doing a how-to for theological and religious blogs as blogging is something I’ve grown increasingly interested in and challenged by. There are many how-to