padrewarren on August 30th, 2010

Here’s a link to an excellent piece from the Alban Weekly from Peter Steinke. Avoiding Missional Drift

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padrewarren on July 19th, 2010

Today was the first day of our VBS, termed in our lexicon ‘Summer Celebration’.   One of the charisms of St. Luke’s is a ministry to children and not just our own.  We have a goodly heritage of providing exposure to God and the life of the church for many in our neighborhood who are [...]

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padrewarren on June 10th, 2010

I’ve run across a couple of instances in the past couple of days that has made me take a hard look at a word.  That word is ‘disillusioned’. For most of my life I saw being disillusioned as a lamentable (maybe a word for another post) state.  I have to admit that I have tended [...]

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padrewarren on April 7th, 2010

I came across this story on NPR this morning while on my way from driving my son to school. I was moved by the portion of the story that says, “as parents, we don’t cease caring for our children and their needs and challenges simply because they turn 18, but in the vast majority of [...]

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padrewarren on June 18th, 2009

For about the last six weeks I’ve been watching this retaining wall go up down the street from my house. When I first started watching the process it was before a long weekend.  I thought the project was to be a modest one to make a small (about 2 foot high) wall around a small [...]

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