Archives for December, 2005
Goodbye 2005
Goodbye 2005, I am glad you are gone and out of the way. I am tired of being kicked around by you. Hopefully 2006 will be a lot more fun and not nearly feature the amount of time hearing bad news from the doctors office.
We are spending a quiet evening at home celebrating New Years with some friends and good food. I have never been one to really get excited about New Year’s Day. I like the day off (oh wait, I am working tomorrow) but the idea of paying money to go see a washed up band play in a venue with bad sound doesn’t really appeal to me.
So whatever you are doing, enjoy the evening and have a great 2006.
Technorati Tags : 2005, New+Year’s+Eve
LSU shocks Miami
Miami gets blown out. I feel no sympathy for the University of Miami Hurricanes at all. Some residual bitterness over their defeat of Notre Dame in 1989.
The Missional Church
While I was making fun of Jared Siebert in my previous post, I was supposed to be making some edits to this excellent document on being a missional church on the Life Cycle Project wiki. Jared gave me permission to post a link to the article here so if you have some time over the next couple of days, take some time to read, think, and make some edits or changes. It is excellent stuff.
Technorati Tags : missional, evangelism, wiki, church, Life+Cycle+Project
First Steps Towards Church Health
Contextless Links
- Did Michelin lower the bar for New York City :: via
- Is the Liberal party fracturing?
- Conservative campaing hitting stride?
- Tory bloggers are as stupid as Liberal ones
- 10 Web Trends That Should Die in 2006
- California police officer attacked by pack of angry Chihuahuas :: The officer suffered minor injuries, including bites to his ankle, Detective Bill Veteran said.
Christmas 2005 photos on Flickr
I uploaded my photos from Christmas up to Flickr. If you have a Flickr account (they are free) and are signed in and are “friends or family” of Wendy and mine, you can see all of the photos. If not, you will only see a couple.
If you would like to see all of our photos (including Mark’s photos), let me know at jordoncooper@gmail.com what your Flickr username is and I can add you to our friends list.
Technorati Tags : Christmas, photos, flickr
Saskatoon Blades vs. Prince Albert Raiders Photos
I took Wendy and Mark to the Saskatoon Blades vs. Prince Albert Raiders game the other night in Saskatoon’s Credit Union Centre and actually brought the camera. I posted the pictures over on Flickr in a photo set so that those of you outside of western Canada can see some WHL action (and a really long second period line brawl) up close .
Technorati Tags : WHL, hockey, Saskatoon+Blades, Prince+Albert+Raiders, photography
Contextless Links
- When do churches jump the shark?
- Brilliant. Even better than this one :: via
- Friesen on Nouwen on forgiveness
- Best 50 web tips of the last year
- Best 50 gadgets of the last 50 years
- I opened a charming neighborhood coffee shop. Then it destroyed my life :: The dream of running a small cafe has nothing to do with the excitement of entrepreneurship or the joys of being one’s own boss—none of us would ever consider opening a Laundromat or a stationery store, and even the most delusional can see that an independent bookshop is a bad idea these days. The small cafe connects to the fantasy of throwing a perpetual dinner party, and it cuts deeper—all the way to Barbie tea sets—than any other capitalist urge. To a couple in the throes of the cafe dream, money is almost an afterthought. Which is good, because they’re going to lose a lot of it.
Re-Elect Carol Skelton
This is on my front lawn. After carefully considering my options in Saskatoon Rosetown Biggar (the Liberal candidate isn’t running a serious campaign and the NDP candidate has never impressed me in her numerous campaigns), I am voting for Carol Skelton. She runs really hard for re-election, she has responded personally to a couple of e-mails (like the Make Poverty History campaign) and has been named one of the Canada’s hardest working MPs. I am not totally sold on Stephen Harper but I do respect Carol Skelton as a MP and a politician.
In Saskatchewan, the NDP are running hard to get our vote with Jack Layton hoping to make a breakthrough in traditional NDP country. The NDP are running Nettie Wiebe who has a long record of public service but did not impress me with her economic views during her campaign for leader of the Saskatchewan NDP (and Premier).
While the NDP and the Conservatives are putting on spirited campaigns, Prime Minister Paul Martin is unlikely to even stop in Saskatoon. It’s former star candidates from last election have either given up or aren’t running this time around. Myron Luckza is running for the Liberals but not seriously, I haven’t seen a single lawn sign and haven’t been contacted by his campaign.
So there you go. Feel free to second guess me in the comments below.
Contextless Links
- Turn $280 into $100,000 while blogging. It all starts with a infomercial. via
- Intel drops the Intel Inside logo in favor of a new generic logo
- Google clarifies the AOL partnership on their blog
- How to tell the difference between Web 1.0 and Web 2.0
- Best and Worst Ideas of 2005
Mark’s pictures at the Saskatoon Blades game
One of the things that we got Mark for Christmas was his own digital camera. Nothing fancy, just an inexpensive 1.3 megapixel camera without zoom or a flash but enough for him to have some fun with. He took it with him to the Saskatoon Blades game the other night and took some pictures. Not the best environment for a cheap camera but he had some fun and was quite insistent that we post the pictures on his blog. Here they are.
Top 5 for 2005
I stole this idea from Pernell at the Freeway
Top Five Books
- The Great Giveaway by David Fitch
- The Complex Christ by Kester Brewin
- The Out of Bounds Church by Steve Taylor
- The Art of the Start by Guy Kawasaki
- The Wisdom of Crowds by James Surowiecki
Top Five Blogs
- OneHouse
- Warren Kinsella
- Calgary Grit (what can I say, it’s election season)
- Grrrl Meets World
- Jonny Baker
Five Worst Blogs
- Wal-Mart Stories of Hope Blog
- Conservative Party Campaign blog :: At the Libs have a name behind their blog
- The Emergent Blog :: I am not that serious about this suggestion but the Emergent blog doesn’t automatically say who is posting to the blog or have a design of it’s own. It needs some work. That being said, there is a rumor of a emergent site overhaul so hopefully the blog will get some love at the same time.
- Tom Peters :: He puts the EGO into ego blogging.
- Blogger Buzz :: Bring back Biz Stone and give Blogger a public face again!
Five Favorite Weekdays of 2005
- Tuesday
- Friday
- Monday
- Wednesday
- Thursday
Technorati Tags : books, blogs, 2005
Teenagers Mix Churches for Faith That Fits
From the New York Times
Like Emily, a number of Christians are regularly attending different churches in the course of a week or a month, picking and choosing among programs and services, to satisfy social and spiritual needs. They are comfortable participating in multiple churches.
The practice is particularly pronounced among young people, sociologists of religion say. Everyone in a family may attend one church for a service on Sunday, but the children then go their own way to youth groups, for example.
In a survey of 13- to 17-year-olds conducted from 2002 through 2003, the National Study of Youth and Religion found that 16 percent of respondents participated in more than one religious congregation. Four percent attend youth groups outside their congregations.
Some critics, particularly conservative evangelicals and the ministers of various denominations, decry such practices as a consumerist approach to faith.
But sociologists say it is a growing practice, a reflection of how Americans today are less attached to a historical, family denomination.
Finding True North
Congregational expectations can be unreasonably high. They want a pastor as purpose driven as Rick Warren, as entrepreneurial as Bill Hybels, as evangelistic as Billy Graham, and as compassionate as Mother Teresa.
They want a wise leader: someone with easy answers to the complex problems of the church.
They want a charismatic leader: someone who can get the church to do what it doesn’t want to do and make them believe that they like it.
They want a dynamic leader: into whose hands they can place the broken shards of their lives and then receive them back again whole.
What do they get instead?
Someone like me. Not the wisest. Not the bravest. Not the holiest.
The best they can get is an ordinary person who has been given the privilege of participating in an extraordinary calling.
Contextless Links
- Was it the PMO that leaked the Income Trust information?
- `This is like a live grenade’ for Liberal party :: Coming on the heels of a series of Liberal gaffes and miscues, the announcement from the Mounties this week has the feel of a tipping point in an election battle that had previously been almost impossible to handicap. :: This is from the supposedly Liberal friendly Toronto Sun.
- Stewart Butterfield on Flickr
- How not to have your bike stolen
- What 250 pounds of silly putty looks like
- How to be a pro hockey player
- Bloggers 2006 New Years Resolutions
- Is Brian McLaren the Kurt Cobain of the emerging church?
- How to enjoy audio books
- A friendly tip to Starbucks baristas :: “I should have said, ‘Excuse me, but I’m a regular customer here with a registered Starbucks card and I spend over $1,000 a year on coffee, beans and gift cards. Therefore, you should probably trust me when I say it’s a refill.”
- Fill ‘er up with some BioWillie please
- Alaska Airlines employees are leaving nasty comments on one person’s portrayal of a horrible flight experience.
Our Cabin Weblog- Recently listened to music
- David Gray – Be Mine October 19, 2008
- David Gray – December October 19, 2008
- David Gray – Knowhere October 19, 2008
- David Gray – Real Love October 19, 2008
- David Gray – Last Boat To America October 19, 2008
- Recently additions to my library
- Messy Faith: Daring to Live by Grace by A. J. Gregory October 28, 2008
- Rediscovering Church: The Story and Vision of Willow Creek Community Church by Lynne Hybels October 26, 2008
- The Teeth of the Tiger, A Novel by Tom Clancy October 26, 2008
- The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership: Follow Them and People Will Follow You by John C. Maxwell October 26, 2008
- The Sum of All Fears by Tom Clancy October 26, 2008
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