Well, we got here a little early for the final day, so I’m sitting here finally typing up my notes from the first plenary session on day one with Andy Crouch. So, once again, here they are… unedited. Gen 2:4-15 The best definition of culture: what we make of the word, in both senses raw [...]
Once again – these are raw notes… There are two kinds of people People who are artistic People are supposed to support them Art is becoming hip to support, but it’s hard to define who artists are though how are we to respond to that the domain of the beautiful the cross of the artist [...]
Again – I’ll be typing notes directly here – unedited with the same goal of reacting to this incredibly relevant discussion about a purchase mentality versus a practice mentality… (I pray these notes bless you as much as it blessed me to be take them down… this was a fabulous session, I’ve become a huge [...]
Below are my notes from the breakout session I just attended and they are unedited due to the time constraint of actually finding a place where the post will publish due to my problems acquiring an internet connection (I hope to react to and expand upon these notes in time)… Barbara Nicolosi – www.churchofthemasses.blogspot.com Why [...]
Over the next few posts, I’ll be posting an accumulation of posts from the course of the day. Apparently, the Wi-Fi connection at First EV Free is saturated and I’ve been unable to get or maintain a connection all day today… but I have been writing… so, here you go. This morning, we recited the [...]
I really should go to sleep, but I feel compelled to share a great story that Matt had told us at lunch about something that happened to him a short time ago. I’m bound to get some details wrong… so Matt, if you read this feel free to correct it. He’d received a phone call [...]
Just back from an incredibly pleasant lunch with one brother from Orlando, FL (Matt) and a couple from Pasadena, CA (Dottie and Fred) where we reacted to an incredible message given during the first plenary session by Andy Crouch. It was such an enjoyable time where we each spoke and clarified what God was showing [...]
My wife and I are sitting here waiting for the Symposium to start and we’ve already met our neighbor (and fellow church planter). It’s an interesting experience going to a symposium/conference in your own home town. You’re off work, and have the whole day booked with sessions and workshops, but you know you’re going back [...]
I’m exhausted. Mainly because I’ve been sick for three weeks and am just now recovering and this has been a full day… but exhausted nonetheless. That said, I feel this great sense of burgeoning revelation as I contemplate and meditate on all that I’ve encountered today on this first day of the symposium. Andy Crouch [...]
I’ve decided to get back into movies. I’ve always loved film and having children and the busyness of life (not to mention my prolonged period of pharasaism) had my movie watching become greatly diminished. I am moved by great stories and I see God’s truth portrayed in those things are done with excellence (unlike the [...]
Hopefully, you see in these writings a man who is staying The Course and pursuing The Path amidst the pitfalls and selfish ways of being a son of Adam. I pray earnestly that my writing would encourage some of you by showing you that this journey - though arduous and sometimes tragic - is a journey of great satisfaction. A satisfaction greater than our greatest imaginings. The trials and refining fire of tribulation are to be recognized as a small shadow of the suffering of our Savior so that we can rejoice, as Peter and the disciples did, to be counted worthy to suffer for the sake of the Name.