Thursday, April 25, 2013

Of Tank Girls and Bucket Lists...

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Some people know that i'm sort of a big fan of our country's armed forces.  What follows, then should not be much of a shock except...
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Wednesday, April 3, 2013

"Do" vs. "Jutsu": A Martial Musing on Following Jesus

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"Do" vs. "Jutsu" There is difference in Japanese martial arts between what are called "Do" arts an...
Tuesday, April 2, 2013

A Good Metric for "When To Exit"...

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These are some of our friends in the small village of Kalavai where our GCC India Teams have been working for the past 4 years.  In that ...
Thursday, March 14, 2013

Of Matrix Movies, Missional Moves and Munchies...

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If you've seen The Matrix trilogy, you will no doubt recall the creepy looking Sentinels that plague the groups of human freedom...
Wednesday, November 21, 2012

"Flying Iron Hand" with My Son Elijah...

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During the Vietnam War, US combat pilots became familiar with a coined term called "flying Iron Hand".  This originally stemmed...
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Friday, November 9, 2012

"I Love It When A Plan Comes Together!"

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I grew up watching The A-Team like many people from my generation.  Now, as an adult, i watch re-runs and think, "why did i like th...
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Friday, November 2, 2012

Of HALO 4, History and Newfound Battlecries!

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My family plays video games.  We use our XBox Kinect for fun exercise during the long Winter months here in Northern Indiana, and after t...
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Wednesday, October 31, 2012

"Keeping the Change..."

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The concept of "Change" is something that i hear a lot about in my job.  People look at what it costs to actually do Community ...
Tuesday, October 9, 2012

Let It Be Said...

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Today, Sami and I were joining some friends for lunch at a local restaurant.  On the tv's overhead while we were talking and laughing...
Sunday, October 7, 2012

Of Poets, Pointed Prayers, Prisoners and Personal Poverty...

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If you know me, you know that I believe I am one of those people who was probably born out of time and out of place.  Most of the things i ...
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Tuesday, September 25, 2012

"...Just a Very Bad Wizard": Musings on Power

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My kids and i have been discussing an issue lately that has consumed a lot of our thought and attention.  We have talked about Power, whe...

Missional Moves eBook: The G3 Map

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If you haven't heard the story, when Rob and I sat down to write Missional Moves  , we thought that we were being asked to write a 25...
Wednesday, September 5, 2012

Missional Moves!

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This is a bit odd for both myself and Rob Wegner , actually.  For the past ten years of ministry at Granger Community Church , we haven...
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Farewell, Smart Zombie...

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Friends!  If you have followed my blog over the past few years, you have probably gotten here by going to one of the two following:  www.ja...
Wednesday, May 30, 2012

The Summer of the "Hiako"...

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I wanted to invite you into something fun that my family is doing this summer as a way of practically disciplining ourselves to being A...
Friday, April 20, 2012

Mega -> Missional: Decentralized Shift

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Rob and i will be presenting a workshop on the topic of "Mega to Missional", and we will do it in one of two parts, depending...
Thursday, April 19, 2012

Mega -> Missional: Centralized Shift

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Rob and i will be presenting a workshop on the topic of "Mega to Missional", and we will do it in one of two parts, depending on w...

Exponential Conference!

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Rob and i will have the privilege of visiting and speaking at the upcoming Exponential Conference in Orlando, FL, next week! We were able t...
Wednesday, April 6, 2011

Parting Shots: Samurai Girl in Chicago

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After leaving our friends at the Japanese Cultural Center to head to Big Bowl (our favorite restaurant in Chicago, and a site of great senti...
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Samurai Journey: The 7-Fold Path of Bushido

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In Feudal Japan, the samurai class followed a moral system called Bushido (literally, "The way of the Warrior"). In Inazo Nitobe...
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Samurai Journey: CQB Armed Jujutsu

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I have a deep and profound respect for all martial arts, both because of the pragmatic and primal cauldron in which most of them were born, ...

Samurai Journey: Iaido "Lightning Draw"

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Make no mistake that despite the decorum and efficient beauty of the likes of the Tea Ceremony in which we participated, Feudal Japan was , ...
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Samurai Journey: Tea Ceremony

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Although dating back to between the 9th to 12th centuries (depending on which records you site), the Japanese Tea Ceremony was a critical pa...