Category Archives: Random
My Modeling Career Begins…
So apparently I’m a model now. My picture has just been featured on the InterVarsity National website on the front page (You can also click the image on the left to get a closer look after its taken down from the website). The picture was used in this article about InterVarsity’s role of spiritual formation to becoming a witness in student’s lives. (It was also used earlier this year in a brochure for donors). The funny thing is that this picture had nothing to do with this. The article opens with a story about Jamie from Johns Hopkins University, but there is no Jamie in the picture and I certainly wasn’t in Baltimore in the last few months. In fact, in case you’re wondering, this picture was taken at my New Staff Orientation this past summer. We were recruited to take pictures that would be used in future InterVarsity publications. And so my modeling career began… Read the rest of this entry
Blogging
I’ve always had a love-hate relationship with blogging. I love blogging because quite frankly (not to sound cocky) I just love seeing my thoughts come onto paper in some form that I could actually reference back to in the future. I have so many thoughts floating up there (often forcing me to stay up till 5 am… yes you don’t want to see the mess they call my brain) that it’s just nice to see them come onto the screen in some actual coherent form. Also, I usually go through the day with 5 random, sometimes cool, mostly random thoughts where in the moment I think, “man I need to remember that one.” And what better way to file away the next ground breaking idea than in a blog! Yet I never get to it, and my brilliant nugget of truth (which could someday turn into my life changing thesis) is lost in the chaos of the next 5 thoughts. The other reason I love blogging is I just love sharing my thoughts with people. Granted at this point my audience is quite limited, I would someday love to blog and be part of a blogging community that just exchanges ideas and discourses on thoughts. Finally, I love preaching. HAHA. (I know, you’re like what’s that have to do with anything?). I love preaching, but unfortunately with my current stage of life and ministry I don’t get to do it much. So in my mind blogging could be a great medium to get my voice out there.
With all that said. I hate blogging. Read the rest of this entry
I envision a church…
If you don’t know, I actually have a secret desire to church plant someday (well maybe not that secret). I know I know. It’s a ridiculous dream, and most of you think I’m crazy for dreaming it. Anyways, last night I was looking at the Vineyard Movement’s new publishing of their “Core Values” and I was quite inspired. I read them and was like, “Man that’s the kind of church I want to plant,” and I stayed up to 5 am dreaming of what that church would look like. I penned my first draft of a vision for the kind of church that I would want to be apart of, and I wanted to share it all with you.
I guess one could say that this is kind of like my personal statement of faith. It is definietly incomplete, and is probably more of a product of reckless passion (or possibly the movement of the Spirit) than any thoughtful discernment of what God is calling me to do. Either way, I had a blast writing it and would love to hear your thoughts.
I envision a church that is…
• Diverse through reconciliation
I envision a church that is a place of reconciliation, believing that in Christ all walls of hostility fall. I envision a church that is diverse in ethnicity, in culture, and in tradition, but singular in purpose. I envision a church that doesn’t just transcend Read the rest of this entry
