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Unique urban community.
“Christians are the only people who can truly discuss the salvation of souls and the rebuilding of city sewer systems in the same sentence…you are never more like God than when you are living in relationships with God’s people and working in partnerships for the re-creation and redemption of God’s world.”
Ed Glaeser, Professor of Economics at Harvard, on “Why Cities Matter”. Short, but good food for thought for contextualizing mission in an urban context.
The City Solution: Why cities are the best cure for our planet’s growing pains.
(via National Geographic)
Starbucks & Church Planting (Tip)
This isn’t an advertisement. If you are planting a church, particularly in an urban context, you will likely drink coffee - and lots of it. Church planting is about people and you need people to plant a church. That means many meetings over coffee on a limited budget. Buying a cup of coffee every day is cheaper than renting an office, plus you get free wi-fi (though the music isn’t always great). That’s where Starbucks comes in. If you register a Starbucks gift card and buy 30 cups of coffee (which should take you less than a month) with that card you will receive “gold” status. Gold status has a number of perks, but the biggest perk is free refills. For example, I live downtown Seattle. There are 4-5 Starbucks within one city block. If I buy a cup of coffee in the AM, I can get refills at any Starbucks throughout the day throughout the city for free. It’s expanded my “office” space, reduced expenses and my wife loves it when I bring home an iced coffee for her at the end of the day. Just be careful, caffeine is a drug, so decaf is an option to consider. Hope this saves you some coin.
Our driveway is the roof of a parking garage. Tonight: bikes!
Carter (3yo) is convinced Aslan is watching over the city. He’s right.
“Heaven is likened in Scripture to a splendid and glorious city. Many men are ever surprised and amazed by the sight of a splendid city. We need not to be told how often heaven is called the holy city of God. Other cities are built by men, but this city, we are told, was built immediately by God himself. His hands reared up the stately mansions of this city, and his wisdom contrived them. Hebrews 11:10 “For he looked for a city which has foundations, whose builder and maker is God.” Other cities that are royal cities, that is, the cities that are the seats of kings and where they keep their courts, are commonly, above all others, stately and beautiful; but heaven, we are told, is the royal city of God, where the King of heaven and eart dwells, and displays his glory. Hebrews 12:22, “The city of the living God.”
Determining how to turn a windowless room into a room with windows without actually installing them in our apartment. This might work. Anyone looking to offload a pair of these?
