Entries from March 2007

Tripp on the internet

Date March 29, 2007

I already posted this, but now I am on the CBF of North Carolina website, so if you want to print out my presentation you can get it here.

News Flash

Date March 27, 2007

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Friendship as Missional Foundationalism Pt 3

Date March 23, 2007

‘Zacchaeus stopped there and said to the Lord, ‘Look, half of my possessions, Lord, I will give to the poor; and if I have defrauded anyone of anything, I will pay back four times as much.’ Then Jesus said to him, ‘Today salvation has come to this house, because he too is a son of [...]

Friendship as Missional Foundationalism Pt 2

Date March 22, 2007

So he ran ahead and climbed a sycomore tree to see him, because he was going to pass that way. When Jesus came to the place, he looked up and said to him, ‘Zacchaeus, hurry and come down; for I must stay at your house today.’ So he hurried down and was happy to welcome [...]

Friendship as Missional Foundationalism Pt 1

Date March 20, 2007

(1 of 3) My reflections on the radical nature of Friendship and its function in the missional church. This is the basic content from my CBF presentation I did with Zach. Enjoy.
He entered Jericho and was passing through it. A man was there named Zacchaeus; he was a chief tax-collector and was [...]

St. Jerome on wealth

Date March 14, 2007

St. Jerome said that “For all riches proceed from injustice, and unless one has lost, the other cannot find. So this proverb seems to me most true: either a rich man is unjust or he has inherited from an unjust man.” Here we see that the ultimate evil of riches is relational.

A Refreshing Conversation

Date March 14, 2007

This was not the first time Patrick and I had this conversation. He left a small rural town and showed up at the University with a Gideon’s Bible in his glove compartment, the Roman’s road written on a note card in his wallet, hundreds of Contemporary Christian CD’s that sound just like ‘the real [...]

Tripp goes to a CBF meeting

Date March 8, 2007

SO Zach and I are doing a little ditty at the state CBF meeting next week. It is based on part of my current project I am writing “Becoming Jesus’ church in the post-colonial world:reframing the mission and power of God.” It is a post-colonial theology of the church that is based on [...]

McKnight and Tony pt.2

Date March 7, 2007

Check it out here. There is some more discussion from the audience here, but Tony will tell you that everyone is a relativist.

Romero Quote for thought

Date March 7, 2007

There aren’t two categories of people.
There aren’t some that were born to have everything,leaving the rest with nothing, and a majority that has nothingand cannot taste the happiness that God was created for all.
The Christian society that God wantsis one in which we share the goodnessthat God has given for everyone.javascript:void(0)Publish
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