Category: church
08/22/10
So I was talking to a guy who asked me what it was about Christianity that appeals to me. I found it more difficult to answer this question than I thought I would. To answer it honestly anyway. This is what I came up with for him.
I see the world t… more »
07/21/09
Plain View #103 - part 2 - June 11, 2009
Psych
Weeds
Entourage
Leverage
So You Think You Can Dance
Burn Notice
Madmen
Blue Shoes
Pillars of the Earth
Jesus Interupted
Crypted Hunters
Hugo Cabret
Last Dragon
Summ… more »
06/11/09
A few weeks ago I had the honor of delivering the address to Adrian's graduating class of 2009. Here's what I said.
Thank you. Hi everyone.
I'm going to speak real briefly to everyone here, and then spend the rest of my speech talking to the gradu… more »
03/29/09
The other day I'm driving down 71 with MaryEllen and Maly, and Maly wants to sing. We tell her to go ahead and we'll try to join in. So she launches in to Piano Man by Billy Joel. Between the three of us I think we got most of it knocked out. Piano M… more »
03/15/09
Plain View #100 - March 2009
The Bachelor (+ robots?)
Life Burn Notice
Rocket Science
Adam's Apples
Soul Graffiti
Lent
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02/06/09
This is what makes these discussions so frustrating. (I talk a good game with doctrine isn't everything, but I get cranky when people don't agree with me too.) Christians read, and pray, and discuss, and then we come up with different, conflicting, cla… more »
02/05/09
A couple years ago my brother and I came to an agreement about Christmas. We agreed that we both had more than we needed or deserved and that our Christmas money could be better spent elsewhere. Se each year he sends me an email telling me that he gave… more »
01/15/09
Go here: http://www.callandresponse.com/trailer.html and click on the last trailer - "Horror" Tailer.
"I am ten."
This shit makes me want to get on a plane and go do something now. more »
01/12/09
Kiva is a place that some of our kids' savings money goes. Check out this video, then go to their homepage and sign up.
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11/25/08
Here's an edited version of my most recent communion meditation.
It may be surprising to some of you, but in my experience, high school students have a lot of interests outside of their class work. In some cases their only interests lie outside their… more »
11/20/08
Things mention today in the "bible study" that's held in my classroom every week, that will make you a better Christian: reading the bible, praying, going to church. Things not mentioned: loving our neighbors, feeding the hungry, vising the sick, living… more »
10/09/08
Plain View #94 - Oct 7, 2008
Homecoming
Will
Braces
In Bruges
Son of Rambow
Soul Graffiti
Homebrewed Christianity
Blood Rant
Election
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10/04/08
When I have time to share my poems with my students, they are generally supportive, almost always polite. But sometimes they give me a look that says, "The hell?" I laughed out loud after reading this one to them. The looks on their faces were pricele… more »
08/06/08
Plain View #90 - July 15, 2008 - part 2
Braces
Church Basement Roadshow
Danny's Story
Hops
Will & Maly
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07/15/08
Plain View #89 - June 89, 2008
end of summer school
upcoming trip
treadmill
ipod
bourne flicks
no country for old men
crash
silly summer shows
will - church & the devil
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07/11/08
The missing podcast has been found!
Plain View #72 - June 22, 2007
summer school
Hapkido demonstration
The Beatitudes
Last King of Scotland
Last Comic Standing
The triplets
Adult Adoptee List
Maly
New beer
go here for sh… more »
06/04/08
Plain View #87 - April 30, 2008
Nim's Island
TV
Pretty Woman
Day of Silence
Everything Must Change
Gay Bishop
Hapkido
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04/18/08
Plain View #85 - April 11, 2008
Sickness
Marriage Conference
The Sheraton
Fire!
Playa Hayta
Church Website
Some Like it Hot
Surf's Up
Toilet Papering
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04/13/08
I originally posted this at Adrian Christian Church.
I'm finishing up a book called The New Christians: Dispatches from the Emergent Frontier by Tony Jones. It's a history and description of the emerging church movement, a movement that's been around… more »
04/11/08
Plain View #84 - March 24, 2008
Guitar Hero
This is England
Defending Your Life
Wind that Shakes the Barley
Zodiac
Easter
J-Lo
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03/11/08
Plain View #82 - February 21, 2008
snow day
bread machine
tet
Sliding Doors
Spiderman 3
Burn Notice
Lost Cities
Jojo's visit
religion
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08/23/07
Plain View #76 - August 4, 2007
Bufe
Clerks II
Mulholland Drive
Bridge collapse - funny story
Political take on the above - corporations are the answer
Ron Paul for Pres.
Beatitudes
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08/04/07
Plain View #75 - July 25, 2007
Bufe
Minneapolis part duex
Craig's List
Vietnam Culture Camp
Sun Yung Shin
Dancing Boys
Tammy & Rules vs. Love
Jostens
VBS
Hapkido Testing
Sweet Land
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07/19/07
Plain View #73 - July 1, 2007
I'm not sure what happened to the previous episode. It seems to be gone. I found one episodes with a few minutes of dead air that was labeled 72 but seems to be a messed up version of 73. I present a cleaned up versio… more »
07/01/07
Plain View #72 - June 22, 2007 - This show is missing in action. If anyone one has a copy, please send it my way. Thanks. Edit: The missing podcast has been found!
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summer school
Hapkido demonstration
The Beatitudes
Last King of S… more »
04/05/07
Plain View #65 - March 28, 2007
Bufe
2 year anniversary!
Dance Mix
The Prestige
Passion of the Christ
TV
Emergency Room
Head for the Mountains
Grocery Test #1, #2, #3
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03/23/07
Plain View #64 - March 14, 2007
Bufe
Lent
Half Nelson
Bloody Cats
Craig's List
Springfield and Easy's
Wedding
Edukators redux (women in the ministry)
Oscars
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12/20/06
Plain View #58 - December 13, 2006
Straight Story
Batman Begins
Threadless
Superman and the Burning Statue of Liberty
Greg Boyd sermon
Sutherlands
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09/26/06
Plain View #53 - 9/20/06
Maltese Falcon
Studio 60
Vietnam Cafe (fries)
Julia Roberts
Weird KC cable
USA - a Christian nation
Kids (between 1 and 2, music to my ears, hapkido)
Note to self - build a treadmill (can you believe I c… more »
08/04/06
Plain View #45 - 8/2/06
Dick Cheney (it's a joke!)
LP Party
Virginia DMV - they don't deserve a link
Reno 911
National Treasure
Cheaper by the Dozen
40 Year Old Virgin
Superman Theme from very cool Superman Page
Ben's Sermon in… more »
04/18/06
Plain View #39 4/5/06
Kaleidoscope
Will and Maly's new blog
fortnight
Off the Map
Bed wetting alarms
The Kurths
N.T. Wright
Burning Car (not the same story, but almost as good)
Ramblin' Educat inspired rant
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03/11/06
Plain View #37 3/10/06
The Croup
Don't get The Itch
Praying Lent
Shirt Potatoes
Maly's dream list
Unforgiven
25th Hour
Spike Lee films
Ed Norton Films
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01/14/06
The Adrian Christian Church web page is back in action. With Danny's help I have learned enough to make occasional updates. Check it out. I'd like to get some action going in the forums. Of course discussion among Christians too often seems to lead t… more »
Plain View #33 1/11/06
Woody Allen's Melinda & Melinda
Brokeback Mountain and holy theater owner
Props to PBS (Reagan and C.S. Lewis)
Death Penalty Challenge is over
DARE (Don't DARE?)
Judgy Students
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01/10/06
I did the communion message on Chirstmas Sunday. I thought it was pretty good so I'm sharing it here.
Midnight mass finished up 22 hours ago in Vietnam. Throughout the Middle-East and Africa, Christian families are together, recounting the day's eve… more »
01/06/06
Plain View #32 1/2/06
Still waiting on challenge response
Information overload
Holiday happenings
Movie list
Movie reviews
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01/01/06
Each week I'll try to link to a site that's discussing the weekly lectionary. I'll try to mix it up on occasion. This week you can find your scriptures and hopefully some discussion at Kairos CoMotion Lectionary Dialogue. I'm not very hopefull that an… more »
12/14/05
Plain View #30 12/14/05
If I Ran the Zoo
Memories of Murder
Death Penalty and Christians -- The Challenge
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12/04/05
Plain View #29 12/1/05
After much technical difficulty, a week's worth to be exact. We finally have the next show down. The stupid recorded kept stopping after 4 minutes and 15 seconds. And the stupid podcasters kept talking without checking to see… more »
11/12/05
Plain View #27 11/09/05
Matt: Netflix strike one, Run Lola Run, Will's tooth and the tooth fairy.
Mare: Politics, religion, sex, racism and World War II.
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10/29/05
I hate for Swick to not get her bible reading done, and since she's not coming to Sunday school, and no one's up for a discussion of the Lectionary here, I'm putting up this link.
Here's Kairos Comotion Lectionary Dialogue, where you'll find, and ca… more »
10/09/05
Wow, still not in the habit yet. Missed last week entirely. (Thanks for all the emails calling this to my attention.) I think next week I'll just link to a site that actually has discussions of the lectionary. But one last time: Proper 24. more »
10/01/05
I know that tomorrow's Sunday, but I'm trying to get in the habit of doing this. Here's the passages for this week. We're doing the alternative passages (Isaiah and Psalm 80).
I put together a liturgy from different parts of the world (below) to c… more »
09/17/05
Plain View #21 9/14/05
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Mare's List: kung fu hustle, evil children
Matt's List: govt as god, wrestling with god more »
Here's the passages for this Sunday. I'll try to post a little earlier next time (not that it makes much difference).
Proper 20
We're going with Jonah and Psalm 145. more »
09/11/05
This is just a thought I had, and maybe obvious to others. It's the result, I think, of a couple things said in sunday school today, comments that seemed to presenta a god who is mostly concerned with the behavior of both the church and those outside th… more »
09/05/05
This Sunday will be the first for a new adult sunday school that I will be leading, although I'm not real comfortable with that word; let's go with facilitating. Less pressure there I think.
Anyway, we'll be discussing the scriptures using the commo… more »
07/01/05
Plain View #14 7/1/05
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This week's list:
-"Supreme court? More like supreme . . . uh . . . something . . . dumb."
-These have nuts
-Good bye ladies
-Bonus: listen carefully for Mare trying to expose the f… more »
06/24/05
Plain View #13 6/24/05
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I have lost our lists, but I believe it went a little something like this:
-Jesus as Lonejack
-Mare's 80's list
-Baseball, it's time to let it go
-Students making me crazy more »
04/04/05
From a couple of the podcasts I liten too.
Here's Mur on finding faith in science fiction.
Kris and Betsy talk about their recent trip to church. (I feel cheated that we have no Jedi's at our church.) more »
03/05/05
Time for a new confession of Christ? This one's somewhat relevant to Mare's recent pro-life rants.
And McLaren's favorite books of the year. more »
03/01/05
Was talking to someone (Sara and MaryEllen?) about this the other day. Brian McLaren (Generous Orthodoxy, New Kind of Christian) was recently on Larry King Live because he was one of Time's top 25 (or so) evangelicals. Here's the transcript. more »
02/26/05
I took 3 days off this week to attend a preaching and teaching convention at the Christian college in Joplin. It was good. In about 48 hours I heard like 15 presentations. Most of those were good. A couple were really good. And a couple rubbed me th… more »
02/08/05
Lent is upon us. Today is Shrove Tuesday (fat Tuesday). Tonight pancakes will be eaten in liturgical churches all across the country. And I am looking back on the month and a half since Christmas and seeing a spiritual desert. All those plans to read… more »
12/23/04
Real Live Preacher has his "dramatization of the Christmas story" posted on his site. It's a pretty good read. more »
12/10/04
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12/05/04
As you may have heard, the Ukrainian supreme court has declaired the election void. A "do-over" is in the works. Meanwhile, it seems that God continues to use a difficult situation to further his kingdom. Here's an update from the same source as befor… more »
12/01/04
Most of you are probably aware, if only vaguely, that there is some political strife in Ukraine right now. (If you're interested in more details check out any number of news sites.)
And most of you are also probably aware that our son Will was born in… more »
11/29/04
Ok, I know this is late notice, but yesterday was the first day of Advent. Advent, for you low church types, is the time when Christians (some of them anyway) prepare for the coming of Christ. It is a penitential time of introspection and repentance, n… more »
11/17/04
Had a nice conversation with a coworker over lunch today. We talked about, of all things, church. And by church, I really mean, The Church, as in the body of Christ. It's not the kind of conversation that generally happens in the teacher's lounge duri… more »
11/15/04
At church yesterday Alan preached about spiritual disciplines, prayer and fasting in particular. A few weeks ago I read an article in Discipleship Journal about spiritual disciplines. I decided then that my prayer life was pretty poor (nearly nonexista… more »
