Nathan R. Hale

  • The church is the collective that encounters and proclaims that God is in the world. The church does not simply gather around a concept of God and seek to survive as an institution or defend religion against cultural misappropriation. No, the church is only the church when it seeks the God who is and when it proclaims to the world that God is. The church is called to help those in the world, like Woz, to encounter the God who is to Israel, witnessing that, even deep in the immanent frame, God is acting, speaking, judging, healing, and electing.

    Andrew Root, Churches and the Crisis of Decline: A Hopeful, Practical Ecclesiology for a Secular Age, Ministry in a Secular Age, (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic: A Division of Baker Publishing Group, 2022), 4:82.

  • 17 years later, I’m not unaware of the issues around Jesus Culture as an institution along with its celebrities. I get the problems that came with the replacement of properly participatory worship with a kind of soul-less arena rock.

    But re-watching this, I can’t help but think there were a lot of hearts in the right place.

    And there is a youthful earnestness, and uninhibitedness in the piece and the performance–yes performance, although this doesn’t mean it’s not worship– that is beautiful to me.

    Something about this video still ministers to my heart after all these years.

  • Probably not worth the $15, but the marketing got me.

  • Charlie

    Charlie

    Already I see gloating
    and glee that death
    has won a battle.

    Already I see response,
    rallying for against enemies
    perceived to be flesh and blood.

    Already I feel desperate
    to remind myself that victory
    over gloating and rallying

    and death

    is only in gathering
    around a cross

    and somehow believing
    it is deliverance.

  • World Relief has an excellent tool on their website to help you call and email your reps in order to advocate for asylum seekers! They really make it easy – takes 5 minutes!

    👉 https://worldrelief.org/advocate/asylum-seekers/

  • Helpful article on the security risks of ChatGPT’s new agentic AI. I for one am not yet comfortable giving it credentials for anything mission-critical…

  • I’m not saying I never miss it, but you know, I never regret starting my day with Scripture & prayer.

  • I know the whole Inbox Zero thing can be taken to an extreme but it does feel good to get there once a week or so.

  • Been a while since I checked in with Workflowy. The Kanban board view and presentation features are killer. I may transition from Trello.

  • Dusty had a couple skin tags removed. Inflatable donut seems more comfortable for him than the Cone of Shame 😆