Its the best week of the year for me - between Christmas and New Years - a time of reflection and planning, repenting and dreaming, finishing off and deciding which projects to commit to. Its the week before the New Years Day of Resolutions, and i usually take a week to think through which resolutions are attainable and which should be attempted anyway.
I am sure you will find out which ones are which if you track with me in 2005.
Everything is up from grabs this week. I am even wondering if i should maintain this blog in 2005. Yes, i probably will. But there will be other projects to be involved with as well. Some may be more important.
- Justin Baeder has set up a wiki on reconstruction called Recotourism.
- A virtual prayer space is set up on Messy Christian's blog.
- Jason Clark is asking the theological question "Where is God?"
- Joel Vestal of Servlife would be a good person to talk to about getting money or help out to where it is needed. He blogs at Zaydsdad.typepad.com - Wikipedia has the updated information.
Merry Christmas everyone. We are having 3 Christmas celebrations up here. We celebrated Christmas with Cindy and Julie Blick from our old church in Australia (when i was a youth pastor 12 years ago). they were here for 4 days and have left now. They hope to be back here in Orkney next summer.
Christmas 2. A quiet family Christmas - the big Turkey, Bing, crackers, tree, etc. Tomorrow night is the carol service for the city of Stromness, and I have created the video loop for it.
Christmas 3. Derek and Amy Chapman and their dog will be coming up from Belgium in a weeks time for our final Christmas.
So we are finishing off the year quietly. Kids are off school now. I am working on video and the production of a multimedia book that outlines the past 10 years of emerging church history.
A little bit of snow fell today. We are all well. Hope everyone out there has a GREAT CHRISTMAS.
UPDATE: Here is the video i promised - 3.9MGs
I had the privilege of witnessing a great band at their first appearance ever. Ragstone27 performed at Orkney's Fusion club in Kirkwall on Thursday night. And they did really well. Click on the image to see it - or continue for a small video file . . .
Smilies, of course, were one of the most familiar symbols of the "happy" 1980's rave culture, which gave birth to the British alt. worship movement. But the Americans want to know . . . . Are the British really so far ahead in Emerging Church? I have been getting comments from Americans that show they are feeling a little behind and I want to encourage them with this post. Hope the Brits dont get too upset with me. [hi guys - anyone for curry?]
- I also wrote up a big response today for Fuller Seminary's Ryan Bolger and Eddie Gibbs, who are writing a book on the emerging church. So i am giving thought to the origins of emerging church, and how to measure when it first happened.
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