Don’t look for a common thread here, there isn’t one. But I just downloaded Storiez off NoiseTrade, the new EP from rapper/theologian Shai Linne. This dude is brilliant, so check him. Thanks to the NoiseTrade system, you can pay what you want or tell 5 friends to get the album for free.
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One exciting aspect of church planting is taking a big picture vision and adding detail and color so that it begins to take shape for other people. Case in point: Now you can download a Prospectus for Crossroads Church (working title).
This file, which reads somewhat like an adventure story, gives background on our purpose, our [...]
The short answer is heck yeah. The long answer requires a little context.
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Depends who you ask.
One perspective is that church planters are guys with a one-track mind, guys who can only sing one song, guys who don’t want to do anything else in the world but plant a church. Biblically, there’s some warrant for this, [...]
Making progress through Andy Crouch’s Culture Making, which is proving to be a fantastic read.
Reading some authors is like scanning a blank wall with occasional windows. Reading Crouch is like walking through a fully furnished downtown loft with picture windows that open on the Missouri River and urban arts district (showing my KC bias there). [...]
Back to Rockville, the well-traveled music blog of the Kansas City star, has a good piece up on the late Johnny Cash. The article does a great job pointing out the paradoxes of Cash’s life, which ultimately read kind of like Romans 12:24-25: “Wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body [...]
