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In Which Many Books Were Read During 2011

January 12, 2012

Hello friends! We hope your “festive period” (as Transport for London calls it) was delightful; ours was! You can just pretend this New Year’s post aligned perfectly with the beginning of 2012… As we looked back on what we learned during 2011, we thought we’d share a slice of our thinking and show you what [...]

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A Multiplicity of Churches, or Why Choosing a Church is Challenging

October 19, 2011

If you read our monthly newsletters, you know that we’ve been praying about a church to plant ourselves in for a while now.  Since we arrived, we’ve spent our Sundays exploring different churches: evaluating (or judging…) the sermons, meeting the pastors and congregation, learning about their purpose and involvement in the community, and so on. [...]

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Tuesday Tidbit: From One Faith to Another

September 21, 2011

What does it look like to live side by side in a multi-cultural, multi-faith world? How can we learn from one another? How can we treat each other with grace, in spite of different beliefs and priorities? Perhaps most importantly, when something is not right, how do we respond? One of the things we are [...]

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Tuesday Tidbit: All Hallows By The Tower

May 31, 2011

After our weekly team meeting today, we went for a mystery ride on the Tube with our team leader Deanna. We wound up at the border between our borough and the central city, marked by the infamous Tower of London. When London was first founded, this prison was at the edge of the city wall, [...]

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Tuesday Tidbit: The Spiritual History of a Place

May 24, 2011

Well, tomorrow we’ll have lived in London for a whole week! Right now we are in the “exploration” stage, getting to know the East End and our particular little neighborhood, starting to understand what makes it tick. To that end, today we took the Tube one stop to the Bank station, which literally pops you [...]

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Tuesday Tidbit: Dear Living Water…

May 3, 2011

  I’ve done lots of different things at Living Water Community Church on a Sunday morning. I’ve planned and led the worship service, harmonized with the band, danced up the aisles, rearranged all the chairs, dropped balloons from the ceiling to celebrate Easter… yeah, that’s just the tip of the iceberg, actually. But I’d never [...]

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Tuesday Tidbit: Being Missional in the Suburbs

January 25, 2011

What does it look like to be a “hard-core” Christian that is changing the world around us as part of our daily lives? I’ll be honest—in some ways, we’ve taken the easy way out on this question.  We’ve been called to move into a context where making the Kingdom real, where our relationship with God [...]

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strangers and pilgrims with no earthly city…

September 7, 2010

Strangers and pilgrims with no earthly city I learned this song last week. It became my mantra as we packed up our house; I sang it under my breath as we taped up boxes and hugged people goodbye and loaded up the car. In one of those weird God-connections, I learned it from a friend [...]

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Kentucky

August 19, 2010

As I mentioned in my last post, Liz and I spent the first week of August in Pippa Passes, Kentucky, on a mission trip with our youth group.   Since the trip kept us from posting for a couple weeks, we thought it might be nice give you a glimpse of the trip. I’ll be honest [...]

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