ED'S BLOG
A TIME FOR MIRACLES & The Weekend that Was
One of the things that is fascinating about the story of Vintage, pristine “Christianity” is the way that the writer Luke struggles to come up with nouns to refer to this moving entity. Sometimes he refers to it as “ekklesia” (the word we translate church – which is...
IOWA CITY and the Weekend that Was
If you’re going to miss a weekend at Journey, you should have a really good reason. I always hate missing weekends. I love our church and our weekend services. Having said that, my weekend in I-City was STELLAR! I was speaking at a retreat for the college...
FEELING YOUR WAY TO GOD, VINTAGE US and the Weekend that Was
Better late than never, but here are a few thoughts on last weekend at Journey. Worship: I love how we’ve been incorporating some classic hymns and arranging them in a way that makes them accessible to our style of worship. Honestly, some of these songs have such deep...
DEAD ENDS, VINTAGE US and the Weekend that Was
Vintage Us is about US! It’s our story and my favorite part of this series so far has been the My Journey’s, the current, right here, right now Vintage Us stories. Apparently there was something in the air, because I had a hard time choking this out, but Shawn...
HOW TO DISAGREE, VINTAGE US, BEACH BAPTISM and the Weekend that Was
As you can tell from the title of this post it was a crazy weekend! I’ve blogged about this phrase on more than one occasion, but it was a “THIS IS CHURCH” weekend. “THIS IS CHURCH” is kind of Hyble-ism (Bill Hybles, pastor of Willow Creek Community Church has...
VINTAGE US, GOD SAYS “GO”… and the Weekend that Was
Sometime weekends come together in a way that you can’t take much credit for. This was one of those! This was definitely one of those. I love teaching in Acts. There are lots of reasons that are just about the books of Acts! But I also sense that this fits hand in...