- And now, in closing…
- Homeostasis and Sabotage
- The story of the preaching jacket
- The narrative sweep of Maranatha CRC Lethbridge
- Possible pitfalls of the pastor search process
- As you may have noticed
- Technical & Adaptive – what I mean by them
- Finite (short view) Game / Infinite (long view) Game Part 2
- Finite and Infinite games
- John chapter 1 and Genesis 1 – Creation 2.0
- John 1, The Overture
- Learning from Liminality, waiting for God’s sign
- Two important learning-available events worth knowing about
- Jesus and John Wayne
- The “first time preaching” story I told on Sunday
- Maranatha’s viability is not a concern
- The Two Popes
- Criteria for Calling Committee Membership
- The bird that inspired me this morning
- LDD – Leadership Deficit Disorder
- Your Council and my advice to them regarding some of the decisions of Synod 2022
- An Interesting juxtaposition
- Numbers of people sharing our worship experiences
- Those invading Storm Troopers! LOL
- The CRC post-Synod 2022, some theories: Pies, Docs & Kuyps; Fences and Wells.
- STM process update pages introduced
- Vacation Report (with pictures!)
- One Practically Wise saying
- What is the superpower of humans? Is it reason? No!
- Expanding on the Bounded or Centered question.
- More on Dominion and Tom Holland
- Strange New World
- Revisionist History and the lies Disney taught me
- An article I was asked to write
- Service instead of Status
- Impressions from Synod
- Do you see the church as Bounded or Centered?
- Working on reordering this blog
- Stats about CRC numerical decline
- And now for something quite different
- Relational un-health and Tyranny of the minority
- Democracy and unspiritual Tyranny of the majority
- The Church is NOT a Democracy
- Part 1 Conceptualizing Emotional Processes
- Lets talk about disagreeing, and doing it well.
- “Inoculative Conversations”
- Educational Videos on Church as an emotional system
- This STM is not a fixer like your mechanic
- Transitions and Liminality
- Volunteer Deficit Disorder
- Does the fight to be right stunt growth?
- Talking fish can not tell you the flavour of the water they are swimming in
- A good follow up to the lament service theme
- “Preaching to the choir in the locker room”
- Frog dissection and preaching
- My “Three, Twelve, 120 principle” of Pastoral work
- Priesthood of all believers
- Organism constrained by Organization
- More like Elizabeth or more like Mary?
- Mere Worship instead of Celebrity Worship
- Pandemic Polarities 2 – Leaving B & W thinking behind
- Feedback done well
- More on my Re-formation challenge called “Estuary”
- Common confusion around the role or office of Pastor or Preacher (of the Word)
- The Great Resignation and church deconstruction
- A general update on Worship
- Can we talk about church like it is a machine?
- Relational Intelligence and churches held “hostage”
- More on Relational Intelligence
- Pandemic Polarities
- Relational Intelligence
- Expectations do not have to be met just because they exist and have been named.
- Unstated Expectations can be manipulation
- (Grating) Expectations
- Welcome!