RisingSpirit
Blog URL http://risingspirit.wordpress.com/
Located Guelph, Ontario Canada
Tags Church, Christian, Church Planting, Emerging Church, Spirituality
A Blog sharing the story of my ministry setting up a new Christian Community in the southern part of Guelph, Ontario, Canada . . . an attempt to discover a new way of being church following Jesus in the 21st Century.
Latest Blog Posts
- Remembrance on Nov 12, 2009 in Uncategorized
On this beautiful sunny November day, I watched my son recite, with a small group of his classmates, the poem, In Flanders Fields, by physician and soldier, John McCrae. My son’s school, each Remembrance Day, hikes down the hundred meters or...
- Beginners on Nov 3, 2009 in Uncategorized
“But we have only begun To love the earth.” – Beginners – Denise Levertov This journey in new ministry has taken me down some unexpected paths . . . a sure sign of the Spirit. This is turning out to be as much an inner journey as an...
- Faith Walk on Oct 25, 2009 in Uncategorized
I’ll confess it. The last few weeks have been hard. I’ve come to the realization that I really don’t know what I’m doing in this church planting gig. I’ve been waking up early with the prayer, “Lord, I think you...
- Secret Heart on Oct 20, 2009 in Uncategorized
“Most secret heart”. I have had a poem and this line from a poem playing like a loop in my brain for some while. It is from Dylan Thomas’s poem, In My Craft and Sullen Art. I love the poem. Here it is. In my craft or sullen art Exer...
- 1+1=3 on Oct 16, 2009 in Uncategorized
When Jesus said, “When two or three are gathered together in my name . . . there I am in the midst of them” (Matthew 18:20) – he must have known something that I’ve often missed. Not 6 or 7, not 10 or 12 but 2 or 3. So there were two of us...
- Open Conversation on Oct 9, 2009 in Uncategorized
For those who may wish to have a conversation on what Open Church and “being church in new ways” might look like and what you could see giving and receiving – let’s meet at Lucie’s Deli and Bakery on Tuesday, Oct 13th at 6:30 p.m. and talk...
- Open Church on Oct 9, 2009 in Uncategorized
Something wonderful stirs my hope for us humans — and the creation — when I see signs like Wikipedia or Open Office. I dream of Open Church. Here’s how I see all this development. When I was a kid we had an Encyclopaedia Britannica,...
