At least a month ago I got an idea for Lent. I had been thinking for sometime about a way to explore and express the Lenten journey in a creative way. I desired to find a way of walking through this time which wasn’t simply marked by giving up a basic desire. I wanted to [...]

So for Lent my faith community, Vintage Fellowship, decided to give up the technology related to our Sunday gatherings—this includes things like the projector, electric instruments, amplifiers, microphones, and the like. With this change we were able to do some unique things since we weren’t tethered to the power outlets. We moved things around in [...]

Some people have asked why we chose a book by Henri Nouwen for one of our independent Lenten studies.  His roots are in Catholicisim.  Some even consider him to be one of the founders of the Emerging Church. There are other more provocative claims.  So why Nouwen?  I can answer that in one short statement: [...]

Welcome to  our 2010 independent study for lent, Feb. 17 – April 4, Lent and Easter Wisdom by Henri Nouwen.  You are invited to read and then respond online with your comments or thoughts.  This is a unique channel of discussion for people who can’t take part in a group study or who do  not [...]

What is Lent? Honestly I don’t really know. I know it has to do with Easter, it follows the very popular Mardi Gras, it means you make sacrifice {ala you give something up, like my ‘sacrifice of coffee’}, it goes along for 40 days like Jesus Christ days of temptation in the desert. But what [...]

We will studying the book by N.T. Wright, Surprised by Hope, through the season of Lent as preparation of our hearts and minds for the glorious celebration of Christ’s Resurrection.