Archive for May, 2009
White Rabbits (Music Friday)
In: Music
29 May 2009The latest album from White Rabbits, It’s Frightening, is produced by the mastermind behind one of my top-three bands (Spoon), Britt Daniel. And on first listen, you would be forgiven for mistaking this for a Spoon side project. It’s got all of the elements that make Spoon so great - use of space, tight guitar-driven [...]
Friends with Benefits
In: Jesus
28 May 2009At the recent Vineyard National Conference in Galveston, Texas, Cherith Fee-Nordling had several words for our church movement that cut many of us to the bone. Amongst them was the idea that we are “friends with benefits” with God, by which she meant that we wanted all of the “perks” of following Jesus (Holy Spirit [...]
2009 Summer Festivals in Chicago
27 May 2009While this week has looked more like April showers than Spring flowers, summer is indeed just around the corner. And with it comes all of the street festivals you can handle. In Chicago, each weekend different neighborhoods and organizations create festivals with music, food and much more. Most are free, none are expensive. It’s one [...]
Shticks, Dreams, Curiosities & Passions (TED Commandments 1-3)
In: Church
26 May 2009Note: We’re working through the TED Commandments of presenting, and seeing if we can find anything useful for preachers. You can read my overview here.)
As we prepare to launch our new service this fall, I’ve spent a lot of time considering how our team can approach preaching, using a variety of church and non-church sources. [...]
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Check this out: ChurchCrunch.com is leading a group blogging project where several writers are going to walk through Shane Hipp’s Flickering Pixels chapter by chapter. And yours truly gets to tackle chapter seven, “A Thousand Feelings”.
Let’s dissect that for a moment:
ChurchCrunch.com is one of my five or six daily must-reads. Their official tagline is [...]
Kobe vs. Lebron (Video Friday)
In: Video
22 May 2009I’m something of an NBA fanatic and a Muppet fanatic, so this is right in my wheelhouse. Enjoy.
(for the uninitiated, a bit on the chalk thing)
LeBron james has a pre-game ritual of reaching into the chalk/talc basket near the scorer’s table, rubbing it on his hands, then throwing it into the air. It’s electrifying, [...]
Burial & Four-Tet (Music Friday)
In: Music
22 May 2009I thought about kicking off my Friday music series with something that would appeal to everyone. But then two of my favorite electronic artists teamed up and created something extraordinary. And since I’ve pretty much had it on repeat for the last two weeks, I need to share it with the world. If you aren’t [...]
TED Preachers
In: Church
21 May 2009Preaching is near the top of “Dave’s favorite things in the whole wide world” list and good preaching comes close to topping it. As I’ve prepared to re-enter the world of preaching, I’ve searched for lots of varying sources on how to pull together a fresh sermon, from preachers like Rob Bell, Greg Boyd, Dave [...]
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Goodbye Winter. Hello Spring.
In: Chicago
21 May 2009After at least six months of the worst winter I can remember, we’re finally hitting spring, which will too quickly give way to summer. I’m a spring/fall kind of person, and there’s nowhere better in the whole world to spend these weeks than Chicago. However, I would wager that our time of 70° [...]
This Month’s Haul
In: Other
20 May 2009My wife and I have become library junkies over the past year. I’m stocking up for some summer reading.
What other books need to be on my list for the summer? What good stuff have you read lately?
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