November 2009

November 19, 2009

Give someone else the best start you can

Give someone else the best start you can Luke 3, John 1, and John 3 record a remarkable progression about the life of John the Baptist. He bursts on the scene, seemingly out of nowhere. It is as if his life blazes suddenly into being, a bonfire that explodes up into the night. He inspires people to action: his message seems to draw people nearly inexorably to the river where he is challenging them to repentance and baptizing those who respond. From the recorded story, it’s almost as if his ministry is over the same day it begins. First he [...]

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November 16, 2009

The missionary advocate as digital curator

We all know about the explosion of information and its effect on us. More and more is being created on a daily basis: new articles, new books, new headlines, new videos, new music. We also know that more and more that is being created is either untrue, mindless drivel, evilly addictive, or simply not intended for you (e.g. Facebook postings or twitter posts which make no sense to you probably weren’t written for you—the nature of the medium simply makes it easy for you to see it). One answer to information overload is better and better search engines. This is [...]

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November 3, 2009

Learning from parallel visions

Most people who are reading this blog know that I tweet. A lot. In fact, I tweet even more now, because I have discovered a plugin for WordPress, which powers my blog, that links my Tweets to the blog. So where I used to tweet sporadically and post a lot of “links elsewhere,” now I spend all of my scanning time posting links to twitter which are automatically funneled into the right place on the blog. Nice, streamlined, efficient. I tweet for three reasons. First, I will never be able to think of everything or experience everything. Lots of other people out there [...]

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November 2, 2009

Getting small to scale big

Luke 3, John 1, and John 3 record a remarkable progression about the life of John the Baptist. He bursts on the scene, seemingly out of nowhere. It is as if his life blazes suddenly into being, a bonfire that explodes up into the night. He inspires people to action: his message seems to draw people nearly inexorably to the river where he is challenging them to repentance and baptizing those who respond. From the recorded story, it’s almost as if his ministry is over the same day it begins. First he is chastizing the Pharisees, and then he is [...]

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