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Reinterpreting the Lakeland Fallout |
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| August 28, 2008 12:00 AM |
| I called it “Apostolic Fallout” a couple of weeks ago, and a few days after that I asked, “Is Bently Taking the ICA Down With Him?” Before I go further, I want to clarify that this is not really about Lakeland, or Bentley, except insofar as they illustrate symptoms of a larger problem. That’s where we need to focus our deep consideration at the moment. Leadership of the Lakeland revival-thing has been passed back to the local leaders and Bentley has properly been |
http://www.subversiveinfluence.com/wordpress/?p=1796 |
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Run Fat Boy Run! |
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| August 27, 2008 06:00 PM |
| Today is Sam & Ellie’s athletics carnival.
I am a dad who was a phys ed teacher, pretty keen athlete and trainer of athletes. When athletics carnivals came around I would be there before and after school for 3 months teaching, training and preparing kids for the carnival. We had some outstanding athletes and we developed [...] |
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http://www.backyardmissionary.com/2008/08/run-fat-boy-run.html |
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Movie Pix HD |
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| August 27, 2008 04:00 PM |
| We bought one of these this week. I had wanted a camera that I could use at work and carry with me everywhere. It is basically a Flip Video camera competitor but takes HD video for a lower price. No internal memory but 1 gig SD cards are going for $7.99 in some places around [...] |
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http://www.jordoncooper.com/2008/08/27/movie-pix-hd/ |
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I.O.U.S.A. |
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| August 27, 2008 09:59 AM |
| Rick Bennett has a good post about this. Head over there and for those of you who are too busy to click and read, watch the trailer below.
The question is can the United States recover from this. Several articles I have been reading lately all mention the lost U.S. manufacturing jobs which is painfully obvious. [...] |
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http://www.jordoncooper.com/2008/08/27/iousa/ |
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I love this photo |
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| August 27, 2008 08:00 AM |
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I am praying for the Obama family. An election is grueling, and at the end of the day they are a father, a mother, and two small children. Also, Barack and Michelle are in positions that no others in American history have ever been in. I speak, specifically, of being a Black man and a [...] |
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http://www.urbanonramps.com/i-love-this-photo/ |
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The Road Ahead |
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| August 27, 2008 06:00 AM |
| Right now there isn’t much that is certain about the road ahead.
However if we’re really honest there never is.
Sometimes we have this illusion of certainty that we sit with for a while, but in truth life is way more fickle than we would like to admit. We don’t have anywhere near as much control [...] |
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http://www.backyardmissionary.com/2008/08/the-road-ahead.html |
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Overheard: A Father-Daughter Exchange |
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| August 26, 2008 02:00 PM |
| Having the day to myself today, this morning I took myself out to breakfast. This is something I will often do for no other reason than to get out of the house and be served coffee while I read or brainstorm a few notes onto a 3×5 card. Since I work at home, there are times when it’s simply a healthy idea to get out of the basement once in a while — even if I’m not actually meeting someone, it helps to be out in public sometimes. And sometimes there is an element of peo |
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http://www.subversiveinfluence.com/wordpress/?p=1794 |
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Vignettes from the Life of Brother Maynard |
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| August 25, 2008 04:00 PM |
| Even my Wife is Cynical
A friend was telling us about a recent encounter that a mutual acquaintance from our CLB had had — this out of some desire to not let their handling of the coals from the Lakeland fire (or however they put it) fizzle without becoming in some way evangelistic. Our friend thought about a book she picked up about how to stop making God look bad and I characterized it as a drive-by prayer-bombing, but apparently the subject in this case was quite touched and began co |
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http://www.subversiveinfluence.com/wordpress/?p=1793 |
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U2 Academic Conference, May 2009, NYC |
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| August 25, 2008 12:00 PM |
| Yes, kiddies, it’s true:
The Hype and the Feedback: A conference exploring the music, work, and influence of U2
Hosted by Cedarville University. In New York City. May 13-15
If I submitted a paper, it wouldn’t be much more than channeling Chris Farley: “Remember when you sang, ‘Bad,’ at Wembley Stadium and you just went on and on? [...] |
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http://www.urbanonramps.com/u2-academic-conference-may-2009-nyc/ |
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Offer accepted |
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| August 25, 2008 11:59 AM |
| The owners of the house we wanted to buy for the women’s shelter accepted our offer. We take possession November 1st which is a little behind schedule but is within an acceptable time frame (the schedule was done up months ago and we did pretty good in getting it this close). Everyone from the provincial, [...] |
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http://www.jordoncooper.com/2008/08/25/offer-accepted/ |
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Forests and Trees |
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| August 24, 2008 06:00 PM |
| James went back and played in the church band yesterday and made some observations about his experience.
His comments on the issue of ’social capital’ in church life are insightful and worth reading.
As one who regularly heads back to ordinary churches I often find myself wondering why it is that we do certain things and at [...] |
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http://www.backyardmissionary.com/2008/08/forests-and-trees.html |
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Random NFL stuff |
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| August 24, 2008 03:59 PM |
| Wow, the 147 year old Kurt Warner beat out Matt Leinhart for the Arizona Cardinals starting QB job. Around the jordoncooper.com headquarters we like both QBs but this was an unexpected development. It is the exact opposite approach that the Green Bay Packers did. Of course the other news of the day is that the [...] |
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http://www.jordoncooper.com/2008/08/24/random-nfl-stuff/ |
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HoMY 67: Wonderful Grace of Jesus |
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| August 24, 2008 06:00 AM |
| Continuing along with Then Sings My Soul: The Hymns of My Youth (I’m not out of hymns quite yet), we come to a selection written and composed by Haldor Lillenas in 1918. I have to say it’s pretty upbeat for church in 1918, perhaps it was scandalous at the time. Its bouncy tempo and echoes make it fun to sing, and Lillenas cautioned in his autobiography against distorting the words of the hymn by performing it at too rapid a tempo.
Haldor Lillenas was born NoÂvemÂber 19, 1885 at |
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http://www.subversiveinfluence.com/wordpress/?p=1786 |
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news from my blogroll |
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| August 23, 2008 09:59 PM |
| So I just clicked a bunch of the links in my blogroll (see left column) and here’s what’s up:
The Emerging Church is like a box of chocolates: My guy Andrew Jones will present on this topic at Greenbelt Festival 2008
Jordon Cooper has kind thoughts about my study guide/book dealie. I plan to expand this with [...] |
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http://www.urbanonramps.com/news-from-my-blogroll/ |
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Disordered Love |
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| August 23, 2008 08:00 PM |
| I can’t remember where I found this, but it struck a chord…
â??Our central lie is in the discrepancy between the language of worship and the actions of worship. We confess â??Jesus is Lordâ? but only submit to the part of Christâ??s authority that fits our grand personal designs, doesnâ??t cause pain, doesnâ??t disrupt the American [...] |
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http://www.backyardmissionary.com/2008/08/disordered-love.html |
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Google Apps |
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| August 23, 2008 03:59 PM |
| At work we have had a nightmare with our e-mail server because of some corrupted data with the domain name registrar. We changed some e-mail addresses and decided to use Google Apps for e-mail. It was pretty painless with Dreamhost setting up everything with one click.
Basically it is free if you are using under [...] |
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http://www.jordoncooper.com/2008/08/23/google-apps/ |
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Random Acts of Linkage #74 |
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| August 23, 2008 04:00 AM |
| All the links that’s fit to print? I hope they are… the jokes certainly aren’t, but here they are anyway:
A priest, a minister and a rabbi walk into a bar: the bartender looks up and says, “What is this, a joke?”
What do you get when you cross a Buddhist and a Druid? — Someone who worships a tree that isn’t there.
A kindergarten teacher gave her class a “show and tell” assignment: each student was to bring in an object that represented the |
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http://www.subversiveinfluence.com/wordpress/?p=1783 |
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Protect & Invest |
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| August 23, 2008 03:59 AM |
| The other day I sat down and re-read my friend Rudy Carassco’s book, Protect & Invest. It is a book about urban and multi-ethnic outreach and he gave me a copy while I was in Pasadena a couple years ago. I am getting ready to give away about 1000 volumes from my library and this [...] |
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http://www.jordoncooper.com/2008/08/23/protect-invest/ |
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Neighbourliness & the Increase of Social Capital |
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| August 22, 2008 08:00 PM |
| In my reading of Clay Shirky’s Here Comes Everybody, I came across his brief mention and discussion of social capital, which he takes from Harvard Sociologist Robert Putnam’s 2000 book, Bowling Alone : The Collapse and Revival of American Community. In fact, Putnam didn’t originate the term in his 1995 article, “Bowling Alone: America’s Declining Social Capital” nor the book it became. The modern use of the term is ascribed to Jane Jacobs in the 60’s, |
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http://www.subversiveinfluence.com/wordpress/?p=1791 |
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