Had a great two days at the NewSong VIBE 07 conference, with a more intimate audience, but extra potent with the teachings of Brennan Manning. He spoke powerfully several simple yet profoundly deep truths: God loves me just as I am, not [ . . . ]
what Piper said about Asian AmericansI’ve mentioned to several people (in f2f conversations) about John Piper’s remark about Asian Americans during a February 2007 conference called Resolved. Piper is renowned and respected evangelical Reformed pastor, so it should be obvious that these remarks are made with good [ . . . ] |
meetups at Southern California conferencesBeing in Southern California now, I have a sense that there’ll be lots of events and conferences to drop in on. For a quick number check, the Greater Los Angeles area has over 12 million people! (If you count only Los [ . . . ] |
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the unanswerable question. journalist email ethics.Eugene Cho has been put in that very uncomfortable situation of having to answer the Question by Dan Savage, who had (inadvertently or intentionally?) released a private personal email on his own blog and the 300+ comments shows how heated a topic [ . . . ] |
candid lunch conversations over ramen soup noodlesMet up with Elijah Fan today over lunch, and had some great conversations. He’s a great hang out kind of guy, and loves the business operations side of things. He’d make a great XP (executive pastor) to compliment a visionary church planting [ . . . ] |
orange you the conversation starterThis polo shirt has been quite the conversation starter. Wore it on Sunday for church and home-hunting in Orange County, and effortlessly picked-up conversations with people along the way all day. (photo by Jeremiah) After church, ran into Stanley & Leslie Jee, and [ . . . ] |
What is the Emergent Church? According to Tony JonesHere’s a brief history of the “Emergent Church”, excerpted from the paper presented by Tony Jones at a 2007 Wheaton Theology conference but rejected from the publication of the conference proceedings:: |
I’m not smiley. what about orphans.It ain’t easy being me. Like Michael “Internet Monk” Spencer, I am not the consummate smiley yellow happy face. They have stickers and t-shirts for that. |
5 blogs that make me thinkBruce Reyes-Chow tagged me (ouch!) while I was driving with family cross country. I’m not a big fan of these blog-based games or grid-blogging or such, but for Bruce, I’ll make an exception. So here’s 5 blogs that make me think (there [ . . . ] |














