November 11, 2019
Veterans Day (USA) 2019
Many worthwhile veterans-related articles today; some of my favorites:
Heroes of a Generation: OSS spy Martin Gelb, 100, fought behind enemy lines (Boston Herald)
“Moved By Compassion, Jesus Put Forth His Hand And The Leper Was Healed” ‘Here’s the backstory to the amazing encounter of a hurting Hill aide and a searching Vietnam veteran’ (HillFaith)
“Why I Wear a Poppy” (blog.kalda.ca)
November 8, 2019
Alma mater closing, more thoughts
Though I might have noticed this anyway because I’m interested in the changing landscape of American higher education, it’s particularly meaningful with the impending closure of my alma mater, Cincinnati Christian University. “Their colleges closed — but their student loans didn’t disappear. Then, they sued.” (Chicago Tribune)
My daughter and fellow CCU alum tweeted “just because the antique store closes (contextualizing for ya 😉) doesn’t mean you still don’t owe the credit card debt you racked up on a sick furniture find”
November 3, 2019
Ethan Magness back at MCC
Friend Ethan Magness, senior minister at First Christian Church, Johnson City TN returned to co-teach w/ Ben Cachiaras for this weekend’s message “Questions about… The Bible, Sexuality, & Gender” from the “You Asked For It” series. YouVersion-Bible.com event notes.
October 21, 2019
Multi-site mention, including interview w/ Luke E
Via email from teammate Liz Acosta, an article that mentions Mountain its profile of multi-site churches https://unseminary.com/10-multisite-churches-to-follow-today-that-you-probably-havent-heard-of/ , from recent unSeminary email .
September 22, 2019
MCC Training Camp 2019 Sep “Paul’s Missionary Journeys”
From the overall 2019 Sep 21 theme of “Stretch”, I taught on “Journeys With Paul : Three Mission Trips to Spread God’s Blessing.” Here’s the participant takeaway document.
Ben Cachiaras opened the morning teaching about: the 2019 church-wide emphasis on Strengthen (more to core). He gave a preview of how MCC will Spread to a new campus, to be announced at weekend services Oct 19-20-21. Then he emphasized the day theme of Stretch – by asking us “how stretchable are we?” … We need to radically change, not our core message but us because in current American the Church is the “away team” — a phrase which calls back to the International Conference on Missions (ICOM) theme from 2015 in RIchmond VA.
August 22, 2019
Real Church, Real Mission
My friend Brian Rutherford, lead pastor for Christ’s Church of Guilderland, invited me to guest preach again 🙌🏽 I spoke on “the Real Mission of the Real Church” – audio here. This was the opening message on their series “Real Church” … borrowing thought from Brian R, in the last hundred years of evangelical American Christianity, some communicators have told people that if you become Christian, life is easy … sometimes that’s not true!
September 17, 2018
MCC Training Camp 2018 Sep
I taught Saturday morning (9/15/18) on “Faith Foundations Holy Spirit” as part of MCC’s Training Camp for our partners (volunteers). Here is the participant takeaway document.
September 25, 2017
Training Camp “This Is Us”
I taught a session titled “This is Us – How God Unleashed His Epic Story Through the Ages” for MCC’s 23 Sep 2019 Training Camp. It was part of the “Bible Basics” workshop / breakout section. Here are the participant notes.
August 9, 2017
On the road again
Not quite on the road, merely one hallway around the corner, but moved from my space w/ MCC’s Adult Groups team into the new I.T. office. Though the linear distance is shorter than my move two years ago, this one is emotionally at least as hard because it closes the door on my time w/ Groups ministry.
One domino to the move will be changes for my postings for this blog; more news to come!
January 1, 2017
Fake I.D. – Abraham
Luke Erickson, MCC’s Edgewood campus pastor, begins the new year by starting the new message series about Bible characters who changed their names. Learn more about Abram becoming Abraham from YouVersion-Bible.com notes and watching the message.
More Better Tools for the Journey 