DecemberDec 4 Friday 09
parables as metaphor…
photo by Erik Johansson
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Jesus seems to like metaphors and analogies, parables and stories… He used this phrase, “The Kingdom of God is like…” leading us to envision a world that is not our own. It is in these metaphors we …
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parables as fairy tale…
photo by Erik Johansson
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An observation: when we talk of God to the unbeliever we most times talk of a formula in which a relationship can be rationally deduced to a repeated prayer and a assigned text. Hear me, I am NOT under …
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DecemberDec 3 Friday 09
parables as comedy…
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Jesus’ parables framed comedy as a communal exchange — as a shared relief at the passing of danger. In this sense, think of laughter as a coping mechanism allowing us to recognize the danger of life and yet not …
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DecemberDec 2 Wednesday 09
parables as tragedy…
Below is a list of parables that have tragic elements within – each has a trace of affliction, death, calamity, and unfairness told in allegorical fashion by Jesus. Through the telling of story as tragedy, Jesus identifies with those who have suffered loss, masking …
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NovemberNov 25 Wednesday 09
ideation…
If I got paid to ideate, I would be a wealthy man. I mean for real…
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NovemberNov 16 Monday 09
finding your story…
Friday, I got the opportunity to teach a 90-min seminar on Story to Iowa’s Inter Varsity team in Cedar Falls, IA. The seminar was entitled, “Finding Story: In speaking, preaching, teaching and fundraising. If your interested you can click here to download my …
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NovemberNov 6 Friday 09
the gospel as fairy tale…
The last of three ruminations on Frederick Buechner’s, “Telling the Truth: The Gospel as Tragedy, Comedy, & Fairy Tale.” Over the past few days, I’ve written on the Gospel as comedy and the Gospel as tragedy, specifically as it relates to truth. Today, I’m …
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NovemberNov 5 Thursday 09
the gospel as comedy…
The second of three ruminations on Frederick Buechner’s, “Telling the Truth: The Gospel as Tragedy, Comedy, & Fairy Tale.” Yesterday, I wrote on the Gospel as tragedy, and introduced the idea of Gospel as story, specifically as it relates to truth. Today, I’m …
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NovemberNov 4 Wednesday 09
the gospel as tragedy…
The first of three ruminations on Frederick Buechner’s, “Telling the Truth: The Gospel as Tragedy, Comedy, & Fairy Tale.”
The Gospel as Story
Only in embracing the full story of the Bible, can we fully discern the redemptive aspects of Jesus’ life, death and …
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NovemberNov 2 Monday 09
reflections | Story ‘09
I’m Smokey Row’n it today and processing/assimilating all of the good things that came out of the Story Conference in Chicago, IL this past Wednesday & Thursday. So much to digest.
One thing is for sure… Twitter has become a fascinating medium to meeting …
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NovemberNov 1 Sunday 09
pornography is like…
Pornography is a deception of the senses. At it’s core is a taking away of the appreciation of beauty, of seeing the aesthetic creation of the Lord, and stripping it of it’s wonder and mystery. We reduce ourselves to animals, looking on beauty to gratify function, …
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OctoberOct 27 Tuesday 09
Time Outside by Wesley Rumph
Wesley Rumph, a friend and filmmaker put together this 2 minute documentary on TentLife, he compiled the voice over from over 30 minutes of audio from our interview/conversation about the facets and origins of TentLife. Below is his final product…
He done good.
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Time Outside by Wesley Rumph
Wesley Rumph, a friend and filmmaker put together this 2 minute documentary on TentLife, he compiled the voice over from over 30 minutes of audio from our interview/conversation about the facets and origins of TentLife. Below is his final product…
He done good.
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OctoberOct 26 Monday 09
the death of an idea…
I’m an idea guy. I get wild extravagant ideas all the time, some of my most heretical have come while either driving in my car or when I’m laying in bed at night trying to go to sleep.
Some of these ideas have legs… most of them do not.
Out of the ideas that have …
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OctoberOct 14 Wednesday 09
books on mawidge…
Mawidge…mawidge is what bwings us togewer today… Mawidge, the bwessed awwangement, that dweam wiffim a dweam… … Ven wuv, twoo wuv, wiw fowwow you fowever..
With my upcoming life change… I have been catching up on some reading on the topic of “marriage.” …
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OctoberOct 9 Friday 09
floodlife…
Imagine this: your tent is in the middle of a neighborhood, only to you it doesn’t feel like a neighborhood because your tent is a quarter of a mile out on a peninsula only fifty yards wide. On three sides of you are the beautiful waters of Table Rock Lake. There is …
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OctoberOct 7 Wednesday 09
new contributor…
I am excited to announce our newest TentLife contributor – Mark Montgomery.
Mark is not only a vagabond thinker but also older brother to Skot Montgomery (TentLife in Alabama & Tennessee), this free spirit must run in the family… and I’m now wondering if their …
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OctoberOct 4 Sunday 09
home-home…
Ever since leaving home-home, I have been on a vagabond's journey to find a place to call my own. The movie Garden State approaches this "search for home" in a scene with Zach Braff (Andrew Largeman) and Natalie Portman (Sam)...
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