in other news citigroup is looking for a regional bank as it is flush with cash from the splurge. in an effort aided by the federal deposit insurance corp. citigroup tried to acquire wachovia before wells fargo co. made a larger continue reading......
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despite my lack of blogging i am alive and well. i just havent had that much to say. here is what is new around the house. oliver is doing quite well. jordon snapped this photo him sleeping in his playpen. despite the tranquil look on his face he hates wearing this cap. i have a massive bruise on my back and hip from falling during the middle of the night. i was fee......
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the sower vincent van gogh with the buzz about the missional church and a the desire to acquaint people in the congregations i serve on the topic i decided to write a primer on todays missional church. a primer is designed to introduce someone to a topic substantively but not exhaustively. i say todays missional church because the focus will be with the recent history of the c......
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we came home early for the nashi fundraiser but this weekend was the last weekend at the lake until 2009. jordon has wrote about the fun here and posted some photos here . posted in arlington beach family jordon life at the lake life update maggi mark oliver......
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today jordon and i went to another nashi fundraiser. the last time there was over 15000 perogies there. this time it was a sunday brunch with the rcmp officer who helps coordinate canadas fight against human trafficking. human trafficking claims 600000 to 800000 victims a year and is second only to drugs in terms of money raised for organized crime. the u.s. department of state rele......
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as i survey the chatter among the select few emergingp ostevange lical blogs that have survived the purges of my rss reader i see very few people considering the drastic changes that are coming to western society. one would think that the emerging types would be all over this given how culturally relevant they try to be. with a couple of exceptions like here and here they are cluel......
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driving around today jordon revealed that he had once been assaulted by an aw root bear back in 1983 at a practice for the canadian olympic hockey team in calgary. apparently the root bear was there and took offense to jordon and his friends humming the aw tuba theme and grabbed jordon tossed him up against the wall and punched him. he threatened jordon and his friends as well. what mak......
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jordon mark and oliver fascinated by madden 07 on jordons playstation portable. posted in family flickr jordon life at the lake mark oliver photograph y......
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jordon cooper posts a couple of very interesting paragraphs about the moral of the housing crisis from this article .a id love to just shake my head at those americans but alas.a some of it hits real deep for me.a for nor mal folk like me and mine the house buy is the big one nothing else really comes close to comparing in amount when you think about it.a oka......
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breaking news my friend jordon cooper has suspended all twittering and blogging so he can leave saskatoon for washington to focus on the financial crisis. copyright 2008 the edge of the inside . this feed is for personal noncommercial use only. if you are not reading this material in your news aggregator the site you are looking at is guilty of copyright infringement. please contact ......
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i havent updated in a while but here is what is new in my life. oliver is growing like a weed and is doing fine. we managed to get some of the problems with marks school settled and he is happy to be there but for me i was a little shocked at how much effort it took to get some questions answered about my own kid. jordon has a long post over at our cabin weblog summarizing the su......
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like many young children we used to occasionally catch wild baby rabbits. like many mothers my mom always said if you keep it it will die. as children it was difficult to understand how providing food and comfortable shelter to these wild ones would actually harm them. those of you who have been around for awhile know that my first blog was named emerging grace .a i ......
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there is someone in my life who has done and said some dumb things in the past. they are pretty ugly to deal with instead of dealing with them the solution becomes well just leave the past in the past and cliches and tired phrases like that. when jordon or i have ever brought up the past we are accused of being unforgiving and its now our fault. it is annoying to list......
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a story as suggested by liz strauss i was working smart but i really wanted something rimarkable . an adventure was in order. a couple of galaxies down and one nebula over i entered a bbhub . i saw felix hominum making a chris brogan list with a big nosed ugly guy about 50 ways to transcend coffee . nearby the chief happiness officer was sparkplugging and jordon cooper h......
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i got to see my friend becky and jerry this week.a it has been too long since we got together but time seems to have gone by really fast. jordon has some good news about an emergency womens shelter in saskatoon. we are redoing marks new bedroom right now.a we are getting rid of the grey cement floor with something a little more inviting.a we havent found an area rug y......
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as jordon wrote maggi got hit by an out of control car the other night in our yard on the side boulevard.a she was tossed to the side of the car as it kept going and she will be alright but she is a little tender moving the last couple of days.......
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last night we went over to alysons place for gloria s retirement party. it was a good time of being around her friends and a bunch of friends we made while jordon worked at lakeview church . oddly enough every couple that was there had at least one person who used to work at lakeview. it was kind of morbid reliving how they quit working there. it was a lot of fun there. go......
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a tom sine is sweet.a his new book the new conspirators is awesome.a his community is inspiring.a if you dont believe me look at the 23 positive blog responses below or take the tall skinny kiw is word and you should because he said this is the 2 emerging church book for the usa .a this week we have a great conversation with tom and it is sure......
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sparse blogging in october 2005 lead to a twiceaday blogfest in december. ill not relink them but i also transcribed the obituaries of universalist ministers who died young on november 2. likewise i wrote about the thennew commission on appraisal report just before christmas. guest what is ballous treatise about thursday october 6th 2005 . . . . this interpretation of ba......
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we werent supposed to take possession of the cabin until june 15th because the camp was renting it out. i had called out to the camp on friday and was told that the rental had fallen through and we could come up whenever. i mentioned that to jordon and he said how about tonight. so we packed up the car with maggi in tow and went to the lake. jordon asked mark for dir......
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quote if everybody believes something its probably wrong. we call that conventional wisdom htthinkb elievemov e quote i want two things that are mutually opposed i want to live a nice little life and i want to play an important role in gods kingdom. john eldredge walking with god httony sheng 75 things men should be able to do ......
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