Life by Nate

For the main intro to this long stretch on community go here.

This Sunday night, our worship gathering will be focusing on the question:

Why do we need community?

I would pose the question to the reader (knowing your insight is just as valuable as my own). I have been thinking through a number of things in the [...]

Looking for reading to supplement our Sunday night gathering’s study on Becoming Community… journeying in hospitality and belonging (intro entry here), I dusted off Henri Nouwen’s book, Reaching Out: the Three Movements of the Spiritual Life. I’ll be reflecting on a number of things he wrote here, primarily from the section regarding moving from hostility [...]

Greg’s written another killer post on Christianity and the bogus-ness of trying to justify war from the Old Testament HERE…

As our Sunday evening gathering begins its focus on community, my thoughts stray towards this essential component to our life as human beings and followers of Jesus. For the next few weeks, my posts will be centered primarily on some of the things that are circulating in my own head around this journey towards hospitality [...]

Through tears and much listening, our Sunday night community dug deep into the meaning of the resurrection. The moments were so rich with the presence of the Spirit. Silence that was “heavy.” Conversation that kept going and going. I am blessed to be leading (in whatever fashion I can) this group of emerging followers of [...]

As I sit here this morning, contemplating this Christian holy day of Good Friday, I find myself in the shoes of the disciples as all their plans are being dashed before their eyes.
Guilty… I’m guilty. I’ve left my dear friend, the one who showed me what living was all about. The one who performed miracles [...]

Heard someone say today that the most important thing we can know is what we don’t know. “We don’t know anything! We’re massively ignorant! We see less than one one-trillionth of one percent of physical reality, let alone spiritual reality… And we just have to know what we don’t know, and what we don’t know [...]