http://www.chestnutridgechurch.com/blogs/trey Mon, 05 May 2008 09:24:56 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en i am pretty much fascinated by what peoples' perceptions of Christ and Christianity are [not always the same to be sure]. having traveled on the "inside" for most of my life, and now working for a church, i have found it increasingly difficult to get outside the bubble. This book was ... http://www.chestnutridgechurch.com/blogs/trey/?p=23 this blog is getting dangerously close to a magazine review, but i have just run across some very provocative articles lately. the most recent one is from ROLLING STONE and it chronicles a Christian youth movement called BattleCry. i was unfamiliar with it myself, but i did recognize the name ... http://www.chestnutridgechurch.com/blogs/trey/?p=18 i dont know why i am so pumped about this, but i have been watching some of the PLANET EARTH series on discovery channel and just been amazed. the photography is killer. anyway, we are starting a new series at CRC tonight and so i put a little video together ... http://www.chestnutridgechurch.com/blogs/trey/?p=17 i subscribe to several periodicals: one of my favorites is WIRED. i have kind of turned into a techno-nerd over the last few years [a subtle, evil transformation i might add] and this magazine has been an attempt to keep myself abreast of the latest trends in technology and culture. an ... http://www.chestnutridgechurch.com/blogs/trey/?p=15 this week finds me in granville, ohio at the home of my parents. grace and i have joined my brother tim [who lives here with his family] and my brother joe [from green bay]. jon, the happy mexican, is now in guatemala. we dont often all get together, but this ... http://www.chestnutridgechurch.com/blogs/trey/?p=14 "MY FRIENDS, I MUST ASK YOU AN IMPORTANT QUESTION TODAY: Where do you stand on God? "It's a question you may prefer not to be asked. But I'm afraid I have no choice. We find ourselves, this very autumn, three and a half centuries after the intellectual martyrdom of Galileo, caught ... http://www.chestnutridgechurch.com/blogs/trey/?p=13 i wanted to include a few links to some poems i have at the genesisARTS site. let me know what you think. SENIOR HIT DAY [this poem recounts a tradition we had at my high school where the senior football players got a free hit on a skinny little freshman of ... http://www.chestnutridgechurch.com/blogs/trey/?p=11 last week someone asked me to recount a story i had told on a sunday morning. i could not remember it at the time, so i told them i would post it here when i remembered. i forget the context of the story [it is really more of an anecdote], or ... http://www.chestnutridgechurch.com/blogs/trey/?p=10 having never blogged before, and attempting to acclimate myself to this new [for me] medium of communcation the biggest surprise has been how self-conscious i feel. there is something very revealing about a blog, or at least it seems to me there should be. and yet, i feel a little ... http://www.chestnutridgechurch.com/blogs/trey/?p=7 i thought that i should include a section in this blog about design, since that is one of my main jobs with the church; it has quickly become one of the favorite things i do although i feel i am really behind in terms of my technical ability. i am ... http://www.chestnutridgechurch.com/blogs/trey/?p=6