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The Ark crew and passengers at the James River State Park Today we made the last "Ark" trip of the 2006-2007 season. The "Ark" is our church bus, and 28 of us made the trek to the James River State Park for a wonderful picnic lunch.
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If you're interested in spiritual awakening -- revival -- like I am, you've read the accounts of The Great Awakenings in America. Preachers, famous and unknown, fanned out across America preaching in fields and street corners, in towns and cities, proclaiming salvation in the name of
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During my presentation at The City Mission workshop in Cleveland on Thursday, I mentioned the need to develop a theology of collaboration. Collaboration is hot right now, and you can see evidence of folks working together in such diverse examples as wikipedia, chaos and systems theory, and barcamp. Collaboration has
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Rich Trickel and me at The City Mission in Cleveland, Ohio I spoke today at The City Mission in Cleveland, Ohio. About 100 people from many different churches attended the workshop, "Building Without a Blueprint: Walking Alongside Others to Transform a City." The City Mission acts as the
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Groundbreaking photo courtesy The Star Tribune The official groundbreaking ceremony for our new community center took place today. We had about 50 folks from our community and about 45 kids from the Boys and Girls Club. We gave the kids "hardhats" and beach shovels, and they were our
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For those of you who live in Cleveland, Ohio, I'll be speaking at The City Mission next Thursday, June 7, from 10:30 am to 1 pm. Rich Trickel, director of The City Mission, read my article, Learn To Partner in Leadership and asked me to come tell
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I am not making this up. On my way to lunch in Danville today, I passed a church sign with the message: Don't forget to take God on vacation! Which brings to mind a host of questions -- 1. Does God need a vacation? Granted, God did take
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Thanks to Jim Tung for photographing our Chatham Arts Community Music School Recital last Saturday, May 12, 2007. Chatham Arts emerged from our partnership with Virginia Tech, local parents, and community leaders. About 30 students take voice, piano, violin, cello, and guitar from world-class instructors affiliated with the Renaissance Music
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This past week was difficult for our community. I live in Chatham, Virginia, about 2-hours from Blacksburg and Virginia Tech, so we were obviously affected by that tragedy. But, on the Saturday before the VT tragedy, our town doctor died suddenly and unexpectedly. Dr. Thompson was a member of our
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I have tried several times this week to write about the tragedy at Virginia Tech, but I could not. Here is the sermon I am preaching tomorrow. My prayer is that it will help. Finding God in the Midst of Tragedy John 21:1-19 Suppose everything we thought and believed
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Our town of Chatham is located less than 2-hours from the campus of Virginia Tech. Last Friday and Saturday, I was on the VT campus attending a Rotary training event. Today, Monday, April 16, the tragedy of 33 people killed, and scores wounded, hangs over our state like a pall.
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I've put up two new categories -- "Sermon Illustrations" and "Missional Church." I love good stories and that's what "Sermon Illustrations" is -- good stories you can use in sermons or your blogs, or wherever. Most of the stories are