This past week in New York City a large group of people gathered in Union Square Park concerning the building of a religious structure. Actually many different structures, and no, they were not mosques–and no one was protesting. Continue reading
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A Creative Worship Event
NOTE: This service was conducted at the beginning of Lent at Zebulon Baptist Church. Pastor Jack Glasgow shared this service with me. He responds, “The worship was amazing. The people were profoundly touched by the four symbols, so we kept them on our altar table throughout Lent and Holy week – a bowl of ashes, … Continue reading
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Deprogramming God
I have been involved with an online discussion of Donald Miller’s Blue Like Jazz. In the most recent chapter we were discussing, Miller writes, Too much of our time is spent trying to chart God on a grid, and too little is spent allowing our hearts to feel awe. By reducing Christian spirituality to formula, … Continue reading
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Living Your Faith
I have a friend who is a pastor, and the other day we were talking about this missional church thing. He said something that confirmed some thoughts that I have had for a while. He said that it used to be that the thing that unified a church was the worship service, and, in his … Continue reading