Archive for November, 2007
Friday, November 30th, 2007
Either that or he’s a lucky bastard.
Go to his blog and find out that he won a car thru the Sunday Times.
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Having heard him ruminate for over a year now about buying a newish car its great to see him not even having to worry. Of course I doubt he and [...]
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Wednesday, November 28th, 2007
I think I used to be an evangelist… but even then I’m not so sure…
You see when you are a youth pastor, especially one with significant influence there is a very strong ‘power’ relationship with the young people in your care and their desire to emulate you can make them quite easy to influence towards [...]
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Wednesday, November 28th, 2007
Jarrod McKenna’s Wednesday’s with Gandhi:
“When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall — think of it, always.” -Mohandas Gandhi
I’m off to Indonesia this Friday [...]
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Tuesday, November 27th, 2007
In the few short weeks I have been running the retic business I have seen how easy it would be to be shonky and take advantage of people. It makes me wonder how many times in the past I have been shafted and not even known it.
On a couple of jobs there has been extra [...]
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Monday, November 26th, 2007
All the talks from this Forge WA Training Day have now been uploaded.
If you’re interested in the nuts & bolts / practicalities of starting a missional incarnational community then you ought to tune in here. It was a great day and really worthwhile for those on the journey.
I also noticed that because it was very [...]
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Monday, November 26th, 2007
I posted recently about hard soil
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and my conclusion was that in ‘hard soil’ you just keep chipping away…
Well, today I went to a reticulation job where the soil was like rock. After 10 minutes of ‘chipping’ I concluded that in the absence of something more [...]
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Wednesday, November 21st, 2007
Jarrod McKenna’s Wednesday’s with Gandhi:
“Today I rebel against orthodox Christianity, as I am convinced that it has distorted the message of Jesus. He was an Asiatic whose message was delivered through many media, and when it had the backing of a Roman emperor it became an imperialist faith as it remains to this day.”
-Mohandas Gandhi, [...]
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Wednesday, November 21st, 2007
Guest blogger in the backyard: Jarrod McKenna
Our friend Shane Claibourne, that mega-phone of amazing grace is at it again, this time campaigning for “Jesus for President”! dark reprieve dvdrip download
to read an Australian take click here
For a video explaining why you shouldn’t vote for Jesus this election click here
So as we go into [...]
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Tuesday, November 20th, 2007
As I told Sydneysiders that I was running a retic business they looked at me in disbelief.
These guys are allowed to water their lawns twice a week with a hose… so there is absolutely no need at all for a business like mine in the East.
It makes you realise the fragility of these kinds of [...]
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Tuesday, November 20th, 2007
I was surprised by this place.
I expected a grimy industrial city with a bunch of rednecks!
It was a beautiful place and I got to hang with some wonderful people from the local church down there. Even better, they were coffee nuts and ‘home roasters’, so I was kept in good coffee by those around [...]
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