For my final project for Essentials Blue, I painted a watercolor painting on canvas. In Simply Christian N.T. Wright talks about the church and compares it to a river and a tree[1]. This is my attempt to combine both concepts into one. The church is like a tree in that it all started with Jesus – [...]
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The Church
Posted in Essentials Blue on February 14, 2009 | 7 Comments »
Worship Theology
Posted in Essentials Blue, tagged christianity, church, course, Crossroads, Dan Wilt, El Paso, emerging, essentials, institute, leader, Lorien Cannoy, online, ssu, study, theology, training, university, Vineyard, worship on February 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Worship is “acknowledging the worth of something or someone” [1]. Worship is a response. When it is God that we are worshipping, it is an act that makes us more human – more of what we were made to be. When we worship something else, we start to lose some of our humanness and we [...]
Balancing Humility and Dignity
Posted in Essentials Blue on February 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
You know when everything in you life seems to match up to a common theme to the extent that it’s kind of freaky? Sometimes God is not subtle, and he makes it very clear what it is he is teaching you about. For me it have been learning to respond to people out of a [...]
Christian Theology
Posted in Essentials Blue, tagged christianity, church, course, Crossroads, Dan Wilt, El Paso, emerging, essentials, institute, leader, Lorien Cannoy, online, ssu, study, theology, training, university, Vineyard, worship on February 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Who is God? God is creator of the heavens and the earth, ruler over everything, community builder, and rescuer. God, being love, expressed his love by creating human beings. God is our all-powerful King, and at the same time our personal friend, embodying community within himself through the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Who [...]
Re-humanizing
Posted in Essentials Blue, tagged christianity, course, Dan Wilt, emerging, essentials, leader, Lorien Cannoy, online, ssu, study, theology, training, university, Vineyard, worship on January 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
We become less human when we… worry are under the influence of drugs or alcohol are selfish lie are impatient speak harshly gossip give up don’t care feel worthless watch too much television complain covet …these are a few of the things that I struggle with(minus the drugs and alcohol – unless you count caffeine) as I [...]
Traces of Deism in my Childhood
Posted in Essentials Blue, tagged christianity, course, Dan Wilt, emerging, essentials, institute, online, ssu, study, theology, training, university, worship on January 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
When I was a kid I wrote this song. The lyrics went something like this: Way up in the sky Way up there so high Far, far away I’ll find a place to stay someday Far, far away, far, far away, far, far away The song was supposed to be about going to heaven, but talk [...]
Thoughts on priorities in family and ministry after watching Why We Worship DVD(Essentials Blue)
Posted in Essentials Blue, tagged christianity, church, course, Crossroads, Dan Wilt, El Paso, emerging, essentials, institute, leader, Lorien Cannoy, online, ssu, study, theology, training, university, Vineyard, worship on January 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I drank a cup of black tea, and I’m hoping it will give me what I need to stay awake (I only have enough coffee to left to make a cup for breakfast tomorrow, so I had to settle for tea). I just finished watching Vineyard Music’s Why We Worship DVD with our worship [...]
