“God spoke, and bang it was there!”Â
Doesn’t that cliche just get you excited about the Creator God in the Genesis of scripture? {insert sarcasm at a level that seems tolerant to you}.  This post makes a lot of great points on the theories surrounding creation. Take a look and let me know what you think!
Click the (re)new banner above to check out the “web-isodes” for our new Spiritual Disciplines adventure. We hope they will serve as a great visual example as you experiment with the disciplines yourself.
Remember, we’ve defined the disciplines as a means of creating space to hear God speak truth into your life. Here and here are lists of common spiritual practices.
This post is for the extremely creative visual learner. See the vast connections from the scripture through art.
I also found this clever post on the spread of religion on ThinkChristian.net.
Let me know your thoughts, comment below.
This is is great article about your sleeping habits and how they effect your walk with Christ.
Big Valley Grace just opened up it’s free public wifi hotspot. So, anytime during the week that you want to hang out, surf the web, study or get work done, just visit the main lobby.
If you want a coffee, you’ll have to stop at Giacomo’s or that Bucks place first. Rumor has it that $1 cofffee is coming soon!
We aren’t the first church to try this. I recently read an interesting article on ThinkChristian.net. Preview it below:
Continuing our conversation of a few weeks ago I’d like to add this spin on the free wi-fi debate from Church Marketing Sucks. For rest of article, click here.
This is a great string of articles (and a great new book teaser to be honest) about statistics on the rates and reasons for college-aged people dropping out of church.
I think you’ll find the myths interesting and encouraging! I know I did. It’s definitely going to be a book I want to get!
ThinkChristian.net recently posted a blog about quizzes that label you and your theology. Pretty interesting. Below is a portion of it: (click here for full post).
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Oh, you know, these quiz things are sort of fun. Sure, as much as she/he tried to not, the quiz author has injected each question with their own bias. And then there’s the whole issue of whether you slept well or not last night, or whether or not pastor was ‘on’ last week, or some such other reason that this particular morning you are definitely not feeling like a Calvinist, let alone a five-point one.
But I checked and it is Friday, which means it’s time to relax:
What is Your Theological Worldview?
Find the whole list made by svensvensven here.
If you’re listening to the message and wonder what I’m referring to on the screen– well you’re in luck (or blessing right?). Here is the powerpoint link.
I hope you’ve had a great holiday season and a fun New Year’s!
I want to encourage you to check out this post. It addresses partnering with our local compassion project, the GOSPEL MISSION. Every second Thursday of the month, the orientation for this ministry is held at 5 PM on location.
So… get trained, get involved, and get your small group plugged in! See you Sunday!
Be at XRDS on Sunday for a wonderful look at Christmas according to the scriptures! And I’m totally excited about the upcoming series’ for our community of faith. Check out the art (thanks Elliott & Vintage Faith) and get excited with me! See here and here how we have strengthened our advertising (haha!).
Click, Press This! to the right for what’s going on the next 2 weeks! Also, Emergent Thought has created quite a fearful emergency in the church of America today. Starting January 13, 2008 we will talk about truth and how we cling to it.
Starting February 10, 2008 we will begin a step-by-step look through the Gospel of John.
In addition to all this wonderful study, we’ll get to hear from you about spiritual disciplines through a video project called RENEW. 
Please contact us if you’d be interested in participating in a documentary style experiment in spiritual formation!
Merry Christmas & Happy New Year!!
