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Moving my blog…

Posted in Blogs, Current News on October 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

I am moving the blog to a new domain. It’s actually part of my new resolution to blog regularly. The blog will now be found at www.makeallthingsnew.org (as well as .net & .info soon).
Please update your RSS feeds accordingly.

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Faster Blog Reading

Posted in Current News, Reflections on October 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Recently, I mentioned the app iReadFast.  Well check out this site where you can learn to speed read your news, blogs, etc.  Good stuff.  Spreed News.

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A29 Regional Conference

Posted in Church Planting, Conferences, Current News, Urban Ministry on October 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

The plans were just firmed up last night for me to attend the A29 Northeast Regional Conference in Troy, NY on Monday. As interested as I am in attending the conference, I am probably more excited about the 5 hour drive each way.  Lord willing, I am going with some church planters from Philly in [...]

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Missional Living in the Suburbs

Posted in Blogs, Current News, Ministry on July 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Steve McCoy and Joe Thorn have announced today the launch of their new blog and ministry called sub•text, on preaching and practicing the gospel in the suburban context.
This blog looks like a welcomed addition to my feedreader! While I most recently have been quite gripped with a passion for urban contexts, the [...]

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Keller’s Next Book

Posted in Books, Current News, Keller on June 30, 2008 | 1 Comment »

The Prodigal God by Timothy Keller is coming out in October. I pre-order my copy already (yeah, I am sick).
Worth reading is Alex Chediak’s interview with Keller regarding the forth coming book.

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Persecution of Messianic Jews in Israel

Posted in Current News on June 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

The Baltimore Sun recently published this article about the Messianic Jews’ complaint of hostility directed toward them for their belief in Jesus.

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Summer Reading Suggestions from Keller

Posted in Current News on June 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Tim Keller and the folks at Redeemer have made a summer reading list. (H.T. Steve McCoy)
I am looking forward to reading the book by Andy Crouch.

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The Value of a Human Life: $129,000

Posted in Current News, Ethics, Uncategorized on May 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

That’s the somewhat shocking title of a recent article in Time Magazine. The article is about insurance companies determining whether or not to pay for medical treatments for folks based on a cost-benefit analysis that caps human life at about $129,000.
Assigning a dollar figure to Medicare patients’ lives may sound crass, but such valuations [...]

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