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Art Class Monochromatic Drawings
Our art classes have been doing monochromatic drawings as of late. The tendency is to think of monochromatic drawings as being pencil or pen drawings – a black medium on white paper. However, monochromatic drawings can also consist of black and white pencil on brown paper, or even white pencil on black paper; which the…
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Ecclesiology and Mission
David Fitch, in a recent interview, made this statement regarding the mission of the Church: “…the church is the epistemological foundation for doing ministry in the world.” Yes, yes, and YES! Sorry, got a little excited there.
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Real Not Ideal
Each year our community has a retreat where we spend even more time (than usual) with each other having fun and developing our relationships. We skied, sledded, watched movies, played games, and, of course, had meetings. The theme for this year was “Real Not Ideal.” We started off the weekend by watching, An Ideal Husband…
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Civilization’s greatest need
“The greatest need in modern civilization is the development of communities – true communities where the heart of God is home, where the humble and wise learn to shepherd those on the path behind them, where trusting strugglers lock arms with othes as together they journey on.” Larry Crabb, Connecting
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For Matt and Renee – Hope your birthday is out of this world!
Matt and Renee
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Spiritual Community = Safe to be Human
What Christian community is and should look like has been the subject of countless blogs, books, small group discussions and sermons. As a member of a fellowship living in intentional Christian community, I have often found the input from the wider conversation on community beneficial for the growth and development of our group. One…
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The Great Seed Heist – Jared Barton
The Great Seed Heist is a book that Jared has been working on for the past few years. The book tells the story of Tommy the Squirrel, his best friend Harley, and the great adventures that they have together. Throughout the story, Tommy and Harley have many dangerous close encounters; but they eventually get back…
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Putting it bluntly
“…cut free from any sense of community, we are miserable and lonely as well as rude. This is an age of social autism, in which people just can’t see the value of imagining their impact on others, and in which responsibility is always convieniently laid at other people’s doors. People are trapped in a kind…
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This is brilliant
Normally, I don’t find much value in Saturday Night Live, but this skit is just brilliant.
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Advent Walk ’08
This is our second year doing an Advent Walk; during the walk we have different scenes set up around one of the lawns illustrating the story of the Nativity. At each scene we stop, read a portion of scripture and listen to a song that illustrates that scene. We work our way around in…