Ministry

The first Barbara Brown Taylor book I read was The Preaching Life which I instantly fell in love with. Taylor’s way of telling stories and making the text come alive is very engaging. Taylor serves as an Adjunct Professor of Christian Spirituality here at Columbia, so I was looking forward to hearing her preach while [...]

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Below is a link to download Brian McLaren’s lecture at Princeton Theological Seminary’s Miller Chapel. McLaren lectured on “The Emerging Church and Mainline Theological Education.” It’s a phenomenal address and I encourage you to listen.
Enjoy.

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Started with my Field Education placement yesterday morning - as most of you know, I’m working with a campus ministry group at Princeton University called Princeton Presbyterians. I’m very excited for this chance to test out my interest and potential calling to ministry to college/university students, and on this particular type of campus as well, [...]

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My pastor didn’t mention the word Pentecost once day. If I hadn’t mentioned it during the musical worship, and had one of our youth read the passage from Joel 2, no one would have known it was Pentecost. That seems totally weird to me. However, they threw me an amazing potluck after the service, gave [...]

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Had our last day of Sunday School this past Sunday. Didn’t feel like trying to just sit around and do another boring lesson that my kids wouldn’t be into…so we went to breakfast. I love these kids (even when they flip me off). Definitely going to miss them come a week when I drive home [...]

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Staff meetings. What are your staff meetings like? Do they make your church feel more like a business…? A ministry? A safe place? A to-do checklist? Do you just do calendar stuff? Or talk about ministry? Pray? Discuss theology…?

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Just got the letter today that I’ve been accepted as a 2004 Ministry Fellow with The Fund for Theological Education (FTE). I’ll be going to the 2004 FTE Summer Conference on Excellence in Ministry held at Fuller June 16-20. Dr. Miroslav Volf from Yale and Dr. Robert Franklin from Candler School of Theology will be [...]

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Ran across this sad story from Jen today. A fellow blogger, Tammy, preached at her church and received a horrific letter from a man who is associated with this ministry. I make no apologies for saying this is a horrific letter and that this man will have much to answer for before Christ (as will [...]

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Why is it that I love youth group until I sit down to try and have a lesson/discussion/talk with my kids. Even when I try to do somewhat “controversial” things (leading a discussion off of the temptation in the desert clip from The Last Temptation of Christ) - it just means absolutely nothing to the [...]

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