the postmodern pop pastor

Who we are as God's image bearers and as men and women recreated in the image of Christ makes all the difference in the world. This is no impractical doctrine. Grounding our sense of self and our daily function on our intrinsic worth and Christ's finished work brings joyous freedom to the moment by moment of everyday life.

Labels: identity, Jesus, self

Hello friends,

Labels: blog, conversation

Our family has been called to a new pastorate in Santa Margarita, CA. We are thrilled to be joining in the nearly 60 years of ministry in the central coast community. We begin there Sept. 1




We have a blog chronicling our preparations and interacting with the church on that end. We'd love you to join in also.

www.leadingfromthemiddle.wordpress.com

Tanks for all the good years in Corona.

Labels: ministry, moving

Yesterday we watched king fishers soar in the wind and then dive quickly into the lake for its prey. It reminded me of this old poem.

AS kingfishers catch fire, dragonflies dráw fláme;
As tumbled over rim in roundy wells
Stones ring; like each tucked string tells, each hung bell’s
Bow swung finds tongue to fling out broad its name;
Each mortal thing does one thing and the same:
Deals out that being indoors each one dwells;
Selves—goes itself; myself it speaks and spells,
Crying Whát I do is me: for that I came.

Í say móre: the just man justices;
Kéeps gráce: thát keeps all his goings graces;
Acts in God’s eye what in God’s eye he is—
Chríst—for Christ plays in ten thousand places,
Lovely in limbs, and lovely in eyes not his
To the Father through the features of men’s faces.

Labels: holiday, photos, poetry

We Campbells made a quick drive to the Grand Canyon on our way to Grandma and Grandpa's house.

Labels: holiday, photos

I enjoy listening to the rants of James Howard Kunstler on the Kunstlercast. His is often irreverent, which I enjoy, sometimes uses colorful language to make his point, which I could do without, and always makes me think about what he calls the "tragic comedy of suburban sprawl."

Here is one podcast where he talks about the mentality of the Evangelical Church towards sprawl, consumerism and fossil fuels. He is a complete outsider, which makes his opinion interesting.

Religious activists are praying at Washington DC gas stations for cheaper fuel. James Howard Kunstler says that type of neurotic behavior isn't much different than the behavior of cargo cults in the South Pacific. The concept of getting something for nothing is widely accepted by American culture, and religion, too. But Jim feels spirituality in America might one day evolve into something worthy of more respect than the Jiminy Cricket, consumerist culture of today's suburban mega churches.

http://media.libsyn.com/media/kunstlercast/KunstlerCast_19.mp3

Labels: audio, suburbia

These flowers, planted to hide the ugliness of a suburban strip mall, seem to forget where they live. When viewed up close they bloom as if they play a small but significant part in a Monet painting.

Labels: art, beauty, photos, suburbia