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Invitations
In: Church| greenhouse
20 Oct 2009This month at Greenhouse, we’ve been talking about our purpose as followers of Jesus. Last Sunday we created a handbook for people to explore who God is creating them to be. Next Sunday, we’re creating space for everyone to (voluntarily) claim, in front of our community, who God is creating them to be [...]
Harbinger of Greenhouse
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5 Oct 2009Three of our first four sermons were lost to technical snags that I think we’ve fixed. But in order to preserve them somewhere, we’re going to be reworking them into bite-size blog posts. Feel free to jump in with all of your challenging and / or affirming comments. We’ll get started tomorrow. [...]
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(Pause)
In: Other| greenhouse
21 Aug 2009We’re in a race to the finish line.
Which is sort of just the starting line.
And so the blog’s gonna be light on content over the next few weeks. Lots of finishing touches - sermons to polish, volunteers to firm up, spotlights to create, sharpies to buy.
This Sunday, we’re running a sort-of dress rehearsal that [...]
Building a Greenhouse: Threads
In: Church| greenhouse
7 Aug 2009We want Greenhouse to be the kind of church where whatever we do on Sunday afternoons affects the rest of our week. Many of our conversations have been about ways to connect our community to one direction and theme for a season at a time, and help it to seep into all the corners [...]
Backwards & Forwards
In: Church| greenhouse
24 Jun 2009Do we plan our main Sunday gathering curriculum forward or backward?
If we plan our curriculum forward, we build as we go and see where it leads. One thing leads to the next, which leads to the next. Ideally we know where we’re going in a broad sense of the term, but nothing is [...]
Building a Greenhouse: The Service
In: Church| greenhouse
9 Jun 2009On September 6, the Evanston Vineyard is launching a new service called Greenhouse. As one of the chief creative workers on the project, I’m using Harbinger of Soul to go behind the scenes of what’s to come.
Part of the work of creating Greenhouse has been to put each of the elements that make up a [...]
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Building a Greenhouse
In: Church| greenhouse
19 May 2009The question that has consumed me for the past five months:
What kind of church do I want to go to?
Here’s where I’ve landed:
ACTION - I want opportunities to live out what we talk about on Sunday mornings, facilitated by the church community. Some weeks this might mean doing a service project, other weeks having [...]
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