Archive | September, 2008

back to basel

September 29, 2008

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Tomorrow I will be going on the road with a group effort blog this next week. I am going to Barcelona and then Madrid to participate in one of the Upstream Collective’s Jet Set tours that we do with people from the states who are interested in coming to Europe to connect in ministry. Take [...]

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House Church in Italy – Photo of the Week

September 27, 2008

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I was trying not to bring up my recent trip to Lake Como Italy again but I just downloaded these pictures from our camera. I had to have a shot of this and of course my face is extra but it is free. I have been studying house churches for some time and this has [...]

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Preparing to go

September 23, 2008

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As you may recall (though I have taken a week or to sabbatical from writing on this topic) is that I am trying out some things that I am learning now from my teammate’s teaching portion of the About Europe tour and some things that I have done in the past in other locations. Please [...]

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the photo of the month

September 21, 2008

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Sometimes you just need to get away. If so, I would highly recommend Lake Como, Italy. The challenge is having to return. My wife and I just took a quick weekend getaway there. It is about a four hour car drive from our house. How can one country have so much? Great Coffee Unbelievable Ice [...]

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What really counts?

September 14, 2008

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As I was sitting yesterday enjoying a rainy and cold Saturday morning in Southwest Germany (okay my picture is on a sunny day. Who really wants to see a rainy landscape photo?). I read the book of Galatians in the New Testament. I really like this book. It is relatively short so I can read [...]

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The Basel Experience

September 9, 2008

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I live about 30 minutes outside of Basel, Switzerland. Basel is a beautiful city on the Rhine River, bordering Germany and France. My ministry these takes me to places all over Europe and in the United States, but I am trying this fall to go into Basel once a week to spend a day there [...]

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the list continues: intentionality

September 3, 2008

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How do you intentionally engage the culture in which you have been placed? As I wrote this down, I was asking myself why this is on the list. It seems so … obvious. But I’ll try to explain why it made the list. In the film “Chariots of Fire,” Eric Liddell has a line that [...]

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