Category Archives: education

Home From My Retreat

Posted on July 24, 2010 by luke

What do you call it when you come back from a retreat? — an attack? Well, technically, I wasn’t on a retreat. I was at the 2010 Academy of Missional Preaching (Southwest). But it was held at the Serra Retreat … Continue reading →

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Checking Our Heads

Posted on July 2, 2010 by luke

Yesterday, I enthused about the PC(USA) website’s makeover, and one of my Facebook friends went to see it. He’s a Southern Baptist, and he wasn’t impressed with this quote on the home page: The pull quote you see here isn’t … Continue reading →

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Robes

Posted on December 4, 2009 by luke

“Pastor, when are you going to start wearing your robes again?” Several of you have asked me that question. As you know, I’ve worn a minister’s robe in worship since arriving at Desert Hills. But I quit this summer. Now … Continue reading →

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Codex Sinaiticus is online

Posted on July 12, 2009 by luke

If you’d like to see what a manuscript of the New Testament looks like, you can now see the entire Codex Sinaiticus here. For more information about Sinaiticus, more information is here and (always) Wikipedia.

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Catalyst West Coast 2009 (More)

Posted on April 30, 2009 by luke

There were a number of great talks over the two days of the Catalyst Conference, but in some ways the first was the best. (For me as a pastor. Another talk was the best for me as a follower of … Continue reading →

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Catalyst West Coast 2009 (More)

Posted on April 28, 2009 by luke

There was a great slate of speakers at the conference, including some “big names” like Rick Warren and Andy Stanley and Ravi Zacharias. There was also a great presentation by Erwin McManus (whose book Unstoppable Force we just studied in … Continue reading →

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Catalyst West Coast 2009

Posted on April 26, 2009 by luke

This is the first year that Catalyst has had a west-coast event. I’m glad I went. That’s the worship (or, Presbyterians would say, the “worship music”). The band is Hillsong United, from Australia.

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