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Modern Times by Bob Dylan has debuted at #1 on the Billboard charts. This is hist first #1 album in 30 years. It sold close to 200 000 copies in its first week of release. Tickets for his Vancouver show go on sale tomorrow. I'm going to buy at least 1 - anyone want to go with me? My wife loves me, but she won't go.

Man - what a day! Had a meeting at 7 AM!!! Meetings at that time can never be good - but this one was. Met with our church planting director - swell guy. Went over some bumps and looked at how things could improve for first@night.

This meeting was followed by a meeting with Cam Roxbourough. Cam is a mjor dude in church planting in Canada and thinking missionally for churches. This was an excellent meeting as we sought out ways to connect what he is doing with what I am doing. The future looks bright.

Went for a massage with a guy therapist at a new place. (Through Felicia's medical coverage we get massages bascially for free). This guy used so much pressure I thought at one time he was trying to push me through the bed. When he was massaging my neck, that little donut thing you stick your head in actually CRACKED. DUDE!

I came home totally wrecked. Still recovering.

Greg Boyd quote:

"The kingdom of the world is intrinsically tribal in nature, and is heavily invested in defending, if not advancing one's own people group, ideologies, or political agenda. That is why it is a kingdom characterized by perpetual conflict. The kingdom of God however is intrinsically universal, for it is centered simply on loving as God loves. It is centered on people living for the sole purpose of replicating the love of Jesus Christ to all people at all times in all places without condition. The kingdom-of-God participant has by love transcended the tribal and nationalistic parameters of whatever version of the kingdom of the world they find themselves in." - 47

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