Thomas Petey Crowder

Yeni is Big. #DallasBIG

Fri, 24 May 2013 10:53:21 -0500

Yeni is Big. #DallasBIG

"The driving center of human action and behavior is a nexus of loves, longings, and habits that hums..."

Thu, 23 May 2013 15:49:48 -0500

“The driving center of human action and behavior is a nexus of loves, longings, and habits that hums along under the hood, so to speak, without needed to be thought about. These loves, longings, and habits orient and propel our being-in-the-world. The focus on formation is holistic because its end is Christian action: what’s at stake here is not just how we think about the world but how we inhabit the world—how we act. We are what we love precisely because we do what we love.”

- James KA Smith, in Imagining the Kingdom

Articles | May 23, 2013

Thu, 23 May 2013 15:04:12 -0500

Why #FitchTheHomeless Backfires
Rachel Karman | Relevant Magazine

City Meditations
Alan Jacobs | The American Conservative

What Steve Jobs Taught Me After I Said “No” To Him
James Green | Fast Co

Who is the Most Incredible Christian Ever?
Ian Morgan Cron | Fox Opinion Blog

Why French Kids Don’t Have ADHD
Marilyn Wedge | Psychology Today

"Worldview approaches…tend to still conceive the task of Christian education as the..."

Tue, 21 May 2013 10:38:05 -0500

“Worldview approaches…tend to still conceive the task of Christian education as the dissemination of a perspective, a way to see the world. My criticism here is not that worldview is wrong but only that it is inadequate. It is an approach that imagines us as primarily spectators of the world rather than actors in the world…We might have a highly developed, articulate ‘worldview’ and yet act in ways that are remarkably inconsistent with such a ‘perspective.’”

- James K.A. Smith, from Imagining the Kingdom

I love this video of our friends Brian & Danna Hopkins in...

Tue, 21 May 2013 08:49:00 -0500

I love this video of our friends Brian & Danna Hopkins in Montana. They have an inspiring adoption story and they are adopting 4 more kids from the Congo! Crazy. Brian was a seminary friend at George Fox and is the lead pastor at the Journey Church in Bozeman.

Evangelism, or Good News-ing

Mon, 20 May 2013 15:36:00 -0500

What if Christians are not called to convince people that Jesus will rescue them,
but rather that Jesus has already rescued them,
and that he’s asking for their allegiance, their faith?

What if Jesus has already rescued them and is asking them to live as if they trust the rescue, as if the rescue were
sufficient and enough?

And what if Christians were called to bear witness to that rescue?

To have lives that point to the rescue,
affirm the rescue,
call the rescue
sufficient and enough.

What if we lived as if the Good News were true,
and invited others to live into it?

That would be evangelizing.

A Week with James KA Smith's "Imagining the Kingdom"

Mon, 20 May 2013 09:03:00 -0500

This book, which acts as a follow up to one of my favorite books ever—Desiring the Kingdom—has been on my shelf for a few weeks and I’m finally getting around to reading it. This week it’ll be my go-to reading material!

Family time on Sunday. Blessed to be surrounded by so many good...

Sun, 19 May 2013 15:59:11 -0500

Family time on Sunday. Blessed to be surrounded by so many good parks.

Me: do you want anything on your shirt? Yeni: yes, a mouse and...

Fri, 17 May 2013 11:36:45 -0500

Me: do you want anything on your shirt? Yeni: yes, a mouse and cheese. #family #blessed

Articles | May 16th, 2013

Thu, 16 May 2013 15:39:03 -0500

Another eclectic list of articles for this week’s web round-up, but here are 3 articles that I found interesting this week.

4 Ways to Be a Happier Parent
Fast Co Create

Russell Moore on Politics & Christianity
Jesus Creed

Forming Children, Forming Young Adults
Jesus Creed (Again!)

"The ending of Christian worship, then, is a sending. Having encountered God in Word and sacrament,..."

Thu, 16 May 2013 12:25:46 -0500

“The ending of Christian worship, then, is a sending. Having encountered God in Word and sacrament, we are transformed and renewed and empowered by the Spirit to take up once again the original vocation of humanity: to be God’s image-bearers by cultivating all the possibilities latent in God’s creation, now renewing and restoring a broken, fallen world.”

- James KA Smith, from Imagining the Kingdom

8 years! It’s been a long journey since May 14, 2005!...

Tue, 14 May 2013 08:12:55 -0500

8 years! It’s been a long journey since May 14, 2005! Can’t wait to see what’s next!

"The temptation of the covenant of the lie is precisely the false promise that worldly abundance is..."

Mon, 13 May 2013 11:22:09 -0500

“The temptation of the covenant of the lie is precisely the false promise that worldly abundance is enough to bring rest to human beings.”

- R.R. Reno, from Genesis

A Week with Augustine's Confessions (sort of)

Mon, 13 May 2013 09:45:39 -0500

Last week, I purchased a digital copy of Gary Will’s biography of Augustine’s Confessions, a meditative work of Augustine’s personal reflections. I’ll be reading through it in my free time this week.

Articles | Week of May 9th

Thu, 09 May 2013 15:14:08 -0500

Here are some web articles that have tickled my mind this week:

15 Things You Should Give Up to Be Happy
World Observer Online

Colleges & Their Priorities
The American Conservative

The Case for Christian Doctrine
Scot McKnight

Open Letter to the Church: Let it Die
Cultural Savage

Video

Thu, 09 May 2013 10:00:32 -0500

Ordination polity exam in an hour. Here we go. #presbyterian

Wed, 08 May 2013 13:53:51 -0500

Ordination polity exam in an hour. Here we go. #presbyterian

"If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don’t like, it is not the..."

Wed, 08 May 2013 13:44:19 -0500

“If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don’t like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself.”

- Augustine

Emery in her kindergarten choir musical tonight!

Sun, 05 May 2013 21:19:36 -0500

Emery in her kindergarten choir musical tonight!

"With an inadequate theology—a truncated gospel—we don’t have a vision for living..."

Sun, 05 May 2013 16:06:17 -0500

“With an inadequate theology—a truncated gospel—we don’t have a vision for living in alignment with the purposes of God’s Kingdom.”

- Amy L. Sherman, from “Kingdom Calling”