Prophets

Tribute

September 17, 2007

I meant to do this a ways back, but wanted to post the excerpt I used for my tribute to my parents at their anniversary party a few weeks back. This represents so much of what I’ve observed in them over their years in ministry together. The excerpt communicates high honor and appreciation for humble [...]

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The Prophetic Imagination Pt. 2: Criticizing and Energizing

August 22, 2007

I’ve wanted to return to my discussion of Brueggemann’s The Prophetic Imagination for a while now. You can find my original post here. I originally discussed the difference between the royal consciousness and the mosaic alternative community and that the prophetic role is call people to that alternative community when the royal consciousness has undermined [...]

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The Prophetic Imagination

July 23, 2007

One of the books I’ve enjoyed the most over the past month has been Walter Brueggemann’s The Prophetic Imagination. I was first exposed to Brueggemann while we were attending Peninsula Bible Church in Cupertino, CA during my time doing ministry at Stanford University. I noticed that one of the pastors, Brian Morgan, continually referred to [...]

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Prophets in Systems

June 9, 2007

While I could probably share several thoughts on congregations or ministries as systems (and I may), I’ve been highly interested in the role of the “prophet” in a system. Much of this interest has been fueled by spending the last 10 weeks taking a prophets class though I’m always interested in prophet related insights because [...]

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