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2013-11-15T08:17:33-07:00

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Louis C.K on Twitter, Kevin Coval and the Prophetic: A Little Friday Funny

Last updated on: November 15, 2013 at 8:17 am By Tim Suttle

I’ve been thinking about the story Jon Bowles told our staff earlier this week. Jon’s church, Beggar’s Table, brought in a poet named Kevin Coval. Coval is kind of a big deal, and is an unlikely person to do a reading in a Christian church. First of all, he’s Jewish. He’s also profane, and a little shocking at times. But Coval is part of an emerging art from that I think could be important. Mostly, he is leaning into the... Read more

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Louis C.K. Friday Funny

2013-11-13T14:23:58-07:00

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Art and Faith: A Morning With Author Jon Bowles

Last updated on: November 13, 2013 at 2:23 pm By Tim Suttle

Yesterday our church staff spent the morning with my friend Jon Bowles, the author of the book Art and Faith: Reclaiming the Artistic Essence of the Church. We met up at Beggar’s Table Church and Gallery to see the place and have Jon lead a discussion on what he’s been thinking and writing about of late. Jon’s church, Beggar’s Table, is a pretty unique place. They are situated in the Crossroads district of Kansas City. It’s an area of old... Read more

2013-11-11T08:27:16-07:00

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Monday Morning Confessional

Last updated on: November 11, 2013 at 8:27 am By Tim Suttle

I confess that my first full time church staff position was at a church in Lee’s Summit, MO called Lakeland Community Church. I started there in 1996. Yesterday was my first time to preach again at Lakeland since sometime in 1998. I confess that before I jumped into my sermon I was introducing myself to the congregation, and talking about how I had preached my first sermon ever at that Lakeland. The problem was that I was ad-libbing, and I... Read more

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2013-11-08T07:31:03-07:00

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New York Subway Experiment: A Little Friday Funny

Last updated on: November 8, 2013 at 7:31 am By Tim Suttle

I am absolutely convinced that one of the major themes of Jesus’s teaching was that the kingdom of God comes not through the regularly relied upon means, but when we are able to allow our imaginations to run wild with hope and love and joy that leads us to the impractical, the implausible, the complete surprise. The kingdom is always a surprise. The kingdom is always a creative leap into the absurd. The Jesus way means taking a flyer –... Read more

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2013-11-07T10:45:30-07:00

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Why Are We So Easily Offended?

Last updated on: November 7, 2013 at 10:45 am By Tim Suttle

The Supreme Court is hearing a case in which two Jewish women sued their small town for opening civic events with overtly Christian prayers. They took offense. It’s an interesting case, if you want to read about it there’s a good article here. Let me say up front that I’m not a fan of Christians who take pride in “praying in Jesus’s name” at public events at which it is obvious that people of other or no faith are part... Read more

2013-11-06T07:53:57-07:00

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Corrie & Betsie ten Boom: How Suffering Helps Us Make the Missional Shift

Last updated on: November 6, 2013 at 7:53 am By Tim Suttle

At my church we’re doing a series on four great saints of the church. They don’t have to be actual canonized saints, just someone whose life can teach us something important. Week one was the life of Corrie ten Boom. Her memoir The Hiding Place, and the movie based upon it, have been around for decades and are still being read and watched. Most of us understand the atrocities of a Nazi concentration camp. We know what happened there and... Read more

2013-11-05T14:37:57-07:00

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Watching as These Middle School Kids Figure Out the Secret to Life

Last updated on: November 5, 2013 at 2:37 pm By Tim Suttle

The secret to life is in understanding that you can only find your life by losing it, and that you lose your life when you try to find it. The secret to life is knowing that if you want to live, you have to learn how to die in a thousand tiny ways – to yourself and to others – every day. When I see middle school students leaning into this reality, it makes me happy. I once heard Andy... Read more

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2013-11-04T08:47:12-07:00

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Monday Morning Confessional

Last updated on: November 4, 2013 at 8:47 am By Tim Suttle

I continue to be convinced that Monday Morning Confessional can be a really important weekly ritual. I know that these confessions are fairly benign, and partly for entertainment, but confessing here on Mondays is helping me to exercise an important muscle. Confession is a learned habit. The ability to confess lasts about as long as physical fitness. If I do not continually cultivate the discipline of confession in small ways (that seem insignificant), then I will not be able to... Read more

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2013-11-01T06:13:35-06:00

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Ellen’s Halloween Extra: A Little Friday Funny

Last updated on: November 1, 2013 at 6:13 am By Tim Suttle

I laughed so hard watching this video, I had to make it a Friday Funny. I have to confess that were I the guy in this video, I would be freaking out at least as badly as her producer was. I would scream like I had pig-tails. Happy Friday everyone! Read more

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Ellen DeGeneres

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2013-10-31T09:21:20-06:00

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The Power of Self-Compassion

Last updated on: October 31, 2013 at 9:21 am By Tim Suttle

I’ve seen this video pop up on Facebook over the past few days. The headline reads, “These Kids Finally Say What They Really Think About Mom. And Her Reaction? Priceless.” I’ve resisted watching it because I was sure that it would be sentimental emotional manipulation. I finally clicked on it today because it was posted by a person I know to be fairly non-sentamental, and was pleasantly surprised. The clip is a little sentimental, but mostly I think the headline... Read more

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