Life.Outpoured

Are you waiting for the Golden Years?

info@outpoured.org — 2010-03-09T08:30:38-08:00

Without casting aspersions upon our geriatric lake pirates I find it funny (or a little sad, depending on how you look at it) that for many people in the West that scene is the quintessential retirement life. ...

The Power of the Whine

info@outpoured.org — 2010-03-05T07:07:33-08:00

The sad/ironic thing is that we’re trying to scrape money together for our project and at the same time have been told that if we were considering planting in Las Vegas or Salt Lake that we would have an all expenses paid church planting career if we wanted it. ...Why do urban American church planters get money thrown at them but those of us wanting to plant and grow churches on foreign soil have to grovel on hands and knees?

Time: The Incredible Shrinking Europe

info@outpoured.org — 2010-03-03T10:11:16-08:00

Last fall, after a decade of work to simplify policymaking and make the European Union more efficient at home and stronger abroad, the last few holdouts signed a 1,000-page document known as the Lisbon Treaty. ... Europhiles dusted off their familiar dream: of a newly emboldened world power stepping up to calm trouble spots, using aid and persuasion where it could, but prepared to send in troops when it had to.

Are you sick with the "Someone Else Syndrome?"

info@outpoured.org — 2010-03-02T08:40:27-08:00

Over the years I've met a lot of well meaning Christian people who are gung-ho about world evangelism, enthusiastic about going to the ends of the earth, sacrificial about reaching the world, as long as it's done by someone else. ...Understanding that Jesus paid your debt and gifted you for something amazing; knowing that you're saved by grace through faith, not by anything you've done but what he has done; realizing that you owe God your very breath, is sufficient to fight this off.