ARE:A Renewal Enterprise

Avoiding Organizational Suffocation

One of the recurring questions I get asked by seminary students, pastors, and other church-folk is, "Can we use 'secular' resources and books without compromising our biblical and theological principles? And if we do use them shouldn't we use some sort of theological 'lens' to read them?" The question has come up again as I've been teaching a course at the Lutheran School of Theology in Chicago (LSTC) - all day, every day this week! - called "Being & Doing Church in the X-Box Era."

Getting Things Done

Tonight after work I painted part of the floor of my porch. It took me about an hour to finish the prep work that remained undone, paint the section of the porch floor, and clean up the brush and roller. It may not sound like much but we are painting the whole house this year and our house is a large, two and a half story home built in 1902. Painting the whole thing is daunting project. 

So I have reframed the project in my mind.