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White Man

pastorbryan — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 22:18:59 +0000

Wow, it’s been way too long since I’ve posted. Unfortunately this will not be a substantial posting. But here is a video that I have found myself watching over and over. It’s really simplistic but I’m finding it moving. Related Posts:Firefox 3.5 Does Cool Things With Videos!The King Beetle on the Coconut EstateMonday Morning Musics | [...]

Missional Takes a Long Time

pastorbryan — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 23:41:00 +0000

I stumbled across a post from missional blogger David Fitch’s website today, which describes almost to a t the sort of process we are following to start a missional community in southeast Portland. In the article, Fitch identifies 5 issues that any group looking to start a missional community must deal with. I’d like to highlight [...]

What I’m Doing

pastorbryan — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 16:32:41 +0000

It’s been interesting to observe the weather in Portland this February. We had a warm spell for quite a while that had been really looking like we were going to have an early spring but alas, it was not to be. February has been an interesting month. I’ve been out of Portland as much as I’ve [...]

Monday Morning Musics | Mumford & Sons

pastorbryan — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 18:32:30 +0000

It’s a Monday morning, and I’m having a tough time getting my brain into work mode. I’m getting there, but it just doesn’t want to focus. I am on the other hand really digging a band called Mumford & Sons (inadvertently introduced to them by blog friend Jason Coker. Here’s a video of their song [...]

We Become That Which We Behold | McLuhan’s The Medium is the Massage

pastorbryan — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 17:15:38 +0000

This is the second in a series of posts looking at some quotes from Marshall McLuhan’s The Medium is the Massage. Previous Post: As We Begin So Shall We Go This post will be broken into looking at three smaller quotes from The Medium is the Massage. All three quotes center around aspects of how technology [...]

Wisdom from Buechner

pastorbryan — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 16:11:23 +0000

When a minister reads out of the Bible, I am sure that at least nine times out of ten the people who happen to be listening at all hear not what is really being said but only what they expect to hear read. And I think that what most people expect to hear read from [...]

Unhelpful Preaching and Dangers of Video Preaching | Thoughts from Rob Bell

pastorbryan — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 22:53:24 +0000

ChristianityToday has a great interview with Rob Bell on preaching called “Tying the Clouds Together” that is worth checking out. I’ve posted a couple quotes below that I found especially interesting. What else have you found unhelpful when preaching? Focusing too much on something in the text that is an issue of hairsplitting debate among theologians. You [...]

Review: A Million Miles in a Thousand Years by Donald Miller

pastorbryan — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 18:44:47 +0000

I received a copy of Donald Miller’s new book A Million Miles in a Thousand Years a while back, and was excited to read and review it. I’ve been a big fan of Donald Miller since reading Blue Like Jazz and Through Painted Deserts, and so I had quite a bit of anticipation about [...]

Buzz for Groups | Buzz Tips

pastorbryan — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 02:22:04 +0000

One of my biggest complaints with Buzz as I was playing around with it was that it felt like it was missing a context for being able to have a message that is only able to be seen between a handful of people. It turns out this is due to my own shortsightedness of not playing [...]

Your Own Personal Jesus (Coordinate)

pastorbryan — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 16:04:54 +0000

Go to web-jesus.com and be amazed…. Here’s just a small snippet “Own your own personal Jesus internet coordinate. Leave a testament to your faith.” I found myself both laughing and horrified as I read the write-up on this. (HT @peterrollins) I’m sure that the folks who made this are good hearted, but man it feels like [...]