I am on my way to Wichita this morning to be with my dad, Mark Conard, who is having a medical procedure this afternoon. I am going to make a short trip down and back today and ask for your prayers for my dad for healing, for my mother, Joyce, as we watch and wait […]
I finally got around to watching the Civil Forum on the Presidency hosted by Rick Warren at Saddleback Church. DVR is a great thing. I was looking forward to the interaction between Warren and each of the candidates, excited that the first time that they would be on the same stage after becoming presumptive nominees […]
I believe that we are saved by grace through faith and that our works as Christians come as a natural result of our faith being lived in our daily interactions. I recently read Of Justification by Faith and Works by William Law and was challenged to think harder about the relationship between faith and works. […]
Whatever Happened to Wesley’s Explanatory Notes? Great question from Kevin Watson. How would you define what’s necessary for a group to become a church? Another great question, this time from Tony Steward. Ben Simpson compiles some well written thoughts on the times in which we live at Thoughts… Assessing our Time… My Path to Me […]
What are you doing in the first part of October? I want to personally invite you to Leadership Institute and Contemporary Worship Institute here at The United Methodist Church of the Resurrection. Jim Wallis, founder of Sojourners will be the keynote speaker for Leadership Institute. Leadership Institute Contemporary Worship Institute I am looking forward to […]
I read a post this morning that really piqued my interest: Open Source Liturgy Project: Developers Needed A call from the General Board of Discipleship for developers to work on an open source project for the texts of communion, baptism, service of Christian marriage and service of death and resurrection. I think that this has […]
This wraps up the series on the benchmarking trip to LifeChurch.tv to look at their internet campus. I want to make sure you know where we have been and where we are going on this series. First, previous posts in this series: Introduction Is Not New Staff Care Live Terry Storch Next week, I am […]
We were able to spend some dedicated time with Terry Storch while we were at LifeChurch.tv and I wanted to share what amounts to notes from a brain dump / Q and A time with him. Good stuff. Don’t look at spending a lot of time for a final release incorporating all the features Look […]
We the Purple by Marcia Ford is a look at independent voters in America with a Christian perspective. Ford has published several books with this latest addition taking her distinct perspective to the political arena. We the Purple is both about and finds its primary audience in independent voters – those who do not claim […]
As a part of being able to give an early review of Wild Goose Chase, the author and publisher made it possible to give away a free copy with a contest right here at Thoughts of Resurrection. That’s right, I said free. All you have to do is leave a comment on this post with […]
“Celtic Christians had a name for the Holy Spirit – An Geadh-Glas, or ‘the Wild Goose’” (Mark Batterson). This is the story behind the title for Mark Batterson‘s latest book, Wild Goose Chase. About Mark from the back cover of the book: Mark Batterson is the lead pastor of Washington D.C.’s National Community Church, widely […]
One of the things that I found to be most fascinating in the trip to LifeChurch.tv was that currently the content used for the internet campus is not live. While the content (video stream) is not live, the worship experience is live. Those who are there to worship together make the experience live, even though […]
Rev. Andrew Conard 