Chris Bishop

Exploring everyday theology through family fun and ministry.

If you have stumbled upon this patchwork I call my blog, I hope that you find something that peeks your curiosity. This is a collection of thoughts, experiences and encounters about whose I am in the story that God had placed me within. I have been blessed with an amazing wife Katie who is a pastor too, and a daughter, Eden, who is simply a delight. They remind me everyday what it is to be loved. Enjoy

25 November 2011 0 Comments

Keeping faith in the game

Tebow responds to Plummer’s faith comments – http://pulse.me/s/3q3w9 I am alwasys interested in the ways that faith comes into the conversation throught the “work days” of folks who are not in the business of church. I think it is because I have a passion to teach people that faith is a whole life comittment and [...]

21 November 2011 5 Comments

Ipope

Inside The Papal iPad, Reid Hoffman Expects Facebook IPO In Early 2012, iPad Magazine Readers Want More – http://pulse.me/s/3lO0j You need to take a look at this story. Who is getting a payoff here to make this happen.

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10 November 2011 1 Comment

Faith Lab: wallflowers

You know at the school dance the people that lean up against the wall with no one to dance with.  That was me, but I like to think of my leaning as a safeguard against the walls falling down.  I was a wallflower.  I don’t dance, and I was perfectly content just taking in the [...]

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27 October 2011 2 Comments

Faith Lab: 40 percent less

As you look around you will being to see the signs beginning to crop up with slashed prices, announcements of big savings, markdowns of up to 80% off.  These are great deals they are things that entice us to buy goods that we might be thinking about or that we don’t really need at all, [...]

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20 October 2011 0 Comments

Faith Lab: Fine Print

If you look at newspaper headlines on the front page you will notice that font size makes a big difference on how important the paper feels a story is.  After all the larger the headline, the less room for other stories on the page.  The things deemed less important thus get a smaller font. We [...]

14 October 2011 4 Comments

Define: Gospel

Throughout some recent reading I have come across a number of people’s definition of Gospel.  They (professors, pastors, teens, children…) have their own views of how to define the term. I am curious how you would respond. There is of course no one right answer, so throw in your thoughts about how you would define [...]

13 October 2011 3 Comments

Faith Lab: Owning Space

There is a striking difference between the way I teach when I am in “my” space and when I am in “foreign territory.”  I think about it in a similar to the way that we move and interact with the space in our own home compared to visiting someone’s home for the first or second [...]