I try to lead a reflective life... asking myself where I'm at in my own story, continually clarifying my own priorities, goals, and passions. Recently ran across this journal entry…
andrewarndtDecember 4, 2011
Luke records a fascinating encounter between Paul and some pagans in Acts 14: 8 In Lystra there sat a man crippled in his feet, who was lame from birth and had…
andrewarndtNovember 23, 2011
"Changing the world" is an idea that gets North American Christians, evangelicals in particular, fired up. We talk about winning the world for Jesus (with no clue what that would…
andrewarndtNovember 9, 2011
What is it we think we're doing during the preaching moment at Bloom? What's going on? Theologically, how do we understand what's happening? And how does that connect to and…
andrewarndtNovember 1, 2011
At Bloom, the culmination of our worship gathering is the moment when we come - broken, weary, and stained, as a family, to the Table. We see our gatherings as…
andrewarndtOctober 25, 2011
Invariably in a church gathering, at some point, there will be congregational singing. It might be four songs up top followed by a "closer" after the message. It might be…
andrewarndtOctober 17, 2011
At Bloom, we take "how" we gather pretty seriously. From the song selection to the readings of Scripture to the little "call and response" items to the Lord's Table to…
andrewarndtOctober 11, 2011
Hey Bloomizens - I wanted to pick up where we left off last week, talking about our philosophy of house church. If you missed last Sunday's talk, you can listen…
andrewarndtSeptember 27, 2011
(This post is a follow-up post to last week's State of the Church talk... if you haven't read that or heard the audio at bloomchurchdenver.com, it might be helpful to…
andrewarndtSeptember 21, 2011
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