Proverbs 29:18 says: “Where there is no vision, the people perish.” A better translation of that verse says: “Where there is no prophetic vision the people cast off restraint.” (Or “are out of control.)  This verse is not talking about u…

I know, I know.  It sounds really pretentious when your Church puts out a document called a manifesto. But that ship sailed a long time ago when we named this Renovatus.  After you Latinize your name, you never get to worry about being pretentious again! When the Renovatus Manifesto debuted in November of 2010, it […]

Book Review: Science, Creation & the Bible via @tcrobinson http://tinyurl.com/2663qbp #OurCOG VERY hot topic right now!

Interesting thoughts by @pastornickpark on the KJV 400th anniversary here: http://tinyurl.com/2ctnx94 #OurCOG

@GabeTaviano @ScottMagdalein @jtauber Just did something cool w/Google Maps API. Saved me so much time: http://bulgarianchurches.com #ourCOG

Don’t hit the fast forward button on me just yet. You might be tempted to skip ahead, thinking that the reason it was defining to get kicked out of Eastland was that it led to us landing at Little Rock.  And of course that is true enough–but the transition into “the land” (spiritually and geographically) […]

I’ve never been fond of the trite “new church” language of “We are not your grandmother’s church.”  I can be charitable enough to understand the sentiment–it’s often a way of saying we  have a culture and style that will be outside your expectations of institutional religion.  But even given that, I hate the phrase–it is […]