http://grassrootskingdom.com Grassroots Kingdom Thu, 26 Aug 2010 17:40:56 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Here is a great post on the bad habits of "going to church" by David Fitch. Here are some good thoughts on asking the right questions when we read scripture by Donald Miller. J.R. Briggs gives us a simple, yet I think spot on, definition of ministry. http://grassrootskingdom.com/?p=145 I wrote this a while back and just came across it: I am incurably restless. I have lived the American dream, and found it wanting. Most places I’ve been, and things I’ve done, did not satisfy my soul. Then again, I am very intolerant of shallow things. My heart yearns for ... http://grassrootskingdom.com/?p=141 [gallery] Amy was my cousin. Our family was/is very close. We miss her dearly. AMY Words don’t come easy when they’re this late They get a little heavier with their weight Death does that I suppose But for what their worth, here it goes I will start by saying that I love you I never really ... http://grassrootskingdom.com/?p=122 Incarnation is a theological world.  Though fancy, its meaning is simple.  Simple, but deep.  It is the combination of two words “in” and “flesh”. Incarnation means that before we attempt to fumble our way towards God, God has already moved intentionally towards us.  The God of heaven, the God that often ... http://grassrootskingdom.com/?p=119 [gallery] Shake Off Our Slumber Let’s not numb our souls with pixel light Cause the world is alive tonight Rub our eyes and shake up these bones Let blood flow to our hearts of stone Don’t drown what’s breathing in wasted days Cause life is living in dazzling ways Beauty breathes and dances free Moves in grace for us ... http://grassrootskingdom.com/?p=110 Dear Father, Help me be a good father.  Thanks for my dad.  Teach me to be a good one. -Dan http://grassrootskingdom.com/?p=108 Going to start a little series called "Lessons Along the Way" These are just the little lessons God teaches us/me as we walk with him. #1.  Today I was at the Chiropractor.  (I have been there a lot lately).  I had to watch a video about keeping my back healthy.  Though I ... http://grassrootskingdom.com/?p=104 "Sometimes we hear our friends talk in moony, romantic terms of the early church.  'We need to get back to being just like the early church.'  Heaven help us.  These churches were a mess, and Paul wrote his letters to them to try to clean up the mess." (Peterson, Practice ... http://grassrootskingdom.com/?p=102 If pastors only carry moral sayings in their pockets and go through the parish sticking them, like gummed labels, on the victims of the week, there will be no good pastor work; they must learn how to be gospel storytellers...  The storytelling pastor differs from the moralizing ... http://grassrootskingdom.com/?p=99 Things Worth Saying I cannot ignore that I’ve been wrong before But I must wonder if my blunders Limit what I speak to being weak It seems these days that we do not say Much of anything, that can bring Hope. or Truth or Light This is our plight, failure to fight To plead, to speak, to stand for what ... http://grassrootskingdom.com/?p=95