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  • Mosaic Church’s Core Values/Metaphors/Environments Wind (Commission) Mission is why the Church exists. The Church is a movement, not an institution. Every follower of Jesus is commissioned by God. Water (Com…

  • Picked up "Can A Smart Person Believe in God?" Great book!

  • >>>what the heck are you talking about henry >>>there ain’t no such thing as that there postmodernism! “Believe it or not there are people who believe that the entire postmodern “thing” is not …

  • old-school---glad tidings that’s what christine cane and pam’s grandpa august hoff called their alma mater, it preceded bethany college and was located in the heart of san francisco. the craig duo (husband and wife)…

  • ….you missed a typical pam smallwood feast!! Christmas came early for our family this year. With Zach and Jen flying out this morning to CA we had our Christmas dinner last night and exchanged gifts afterward. Jen …

  • Christmas Origins The word for Christmas in late Old English is Cristes Maesse, the Mass of Christ, first found in 1038, and Cristes-messe, in 1131. In Dutch it is Kerst-misse, in Latin Dies Natalis, whence comes the …

  • >>>toasty, warm house, no snow outside yet I’m furiously keying in the results of my survey from church for my doctoral project. Jen and Zach are watching Napoleon Dynamite in the living room. Steven’s tryi…

  • SO LONG MISS JULIA…………. We just attended the graveside services of one of the charter members of New Life, Julia Andrus. Julia’s life in many ways embodied the values represented in New Life’s constant…

  • Capo Beach Calvary Ministry Adaptations · Giving careful attention to film, television, music, and literature to take the pulse of popular culture. · Developing a sensitivity regarding gender issues. ·…

  • -----------------------------------------------------------------------sinner, where? Christianity…does not say that, in spite of appearances, we are all murderers or burglars or crooks or sexual perverts at heart;…

  • >>>wanna go out? The cultural trend to seek out front porch is evident in the phenomenon of “church shopping.” For several years, we have credited consumerism with birthing the trend for people to “shop” …

  • <<<<<<<<<<<The McDonaldization of the Church: Efficiency, Calculability, Predictability, and Control ‘Christian maturity’ used to be seen as something that arose over decades, as Ch…

  • top-down professional outfit<<<<< "The church tends to be an institution driven by top-down professional leadership and recruitment for ever-expanding programs. The result is passive laity largely un…

  • >>>spiritual formation pathways Cognitive: Transformation through the study of the Scriptures. Contemplative: Transformation through contemplative practices such as meditation and prayer. Ascetic Tran…

  • >>>spiritual formation "Helping people grow, particularly in the arena of spiritual formation, is about unpacking life: Challenging our emotional responses that are destructive (envy, hatred, bitterness); cha…

  • >>>we have turned God into a consumer commodity >>>religious leaders are the vendors “North American Christianity has agreed to the assumptions of the modern world and has built much of its theolog…

  • <<<sensing god I loved every second of the Catholic church. I loved the sickly sweet rotting-pomegranate smells of the incense. I loved the overwrought altar, the birdbath of holy water, the votive candles;…

  • One question, how did Jorge get behind Jesus in the upper left corner picture? Was he in the movie Dogma?

  • Burrrrrrrrr I’ve been warning Jen that it was going to get cold (not the wimpy Santa Cruz, 65° cold)! This morning the mercury hit 17 degrees! Low 17°, High: 36°, Currently 32° (it’s 63° in my home office).

  • "Although I was still speaking, I felt like everything coming out of my mouth had that Charlie Brown's teacher sound (wa wa wa wa wa). And peering over the audience, there was a thick glaze beginning to coat the cr…

  • What Does the Christmas Story Have to Do With Current Events? It's an Annual Festival Celebrating the: · Tyrannical Over-taxation by Imperial Occupying Powers · Of a Poor, Middle-Eastern, Homeless, …

  • Phantom Cell Phone Vibrations Definition: The phenomenon of experiencing a sensation of vibration in the pocket-region, leading one to believe their cell phone is vibrating. The sensation can be triggered by other vib…

  • Actual letter received from Santa Cruz SPCA From the Desk of Lisa Carter Dear Mr. Smallwood, All of us at the Santa Cruz SCPA have been touched by an Angel. Angel arrived at th…

  • <<<all techied up ~ nobody to love>>> In a modern world where science, technology and rational thought were touted as the cure-all for all of societies problems, and where religion and spirituality w…

  • Christ-follower Profile >>>Yes, I am aware of ‘power evangelism,’ ‘power encounters,’ ‘laughing revivals,’ and the rest. They have their place, but isn’t the power we really long to see not just a matter of …

  • Theological Guild Societies “The Christian Church seems to have lost…the capacity to speak about its beliefs in a manner which should convey the impression of something real and alive. The language of the theolog…

  • 4 Relational Spaces All human beings communicate and develop a sense of belonging in four relational spaces: Public Space…………………….12 feet and beyond Social Space …………………….4 to 12 feet …

  • faith or good actions? Christians have often disputed as to whether what leads the Christian home is good actions or Faith in Christ…It does seem to me like asking which blade in the pair of scissors is most necessa…

  • (people) We are the people of the parenthesis—at the end of one era But not quite at the beginning of the next one. Maps no longer fit the new territories. In order to make sense of it all, we must cultivate a vis…

  • church as clubhouse (but not as fun) “I began ministry in the church thirty years ago as a college freshman. Ministry and the church have been my world. But it is a world that I increasingly find difficult to feel at…

  • >>>The Investment Over back where they speak of life as staying ('You couldn't call it living, for it ain't'), There was an old, old house renewed with paint, And in it a piano loudly playing. Out in the p…

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