news news news.

thanks for me not getting any flames about the podcast last week.

changes for the site.

i am consolidating with some buddies of mine over at alpha262.com we have decided to blog together and do some things together. hopefully that means that everything address and feed wise will stay the same. we are excited about the things that we can do "together". yeah anyway its cool......


maybe the worst thing i have ever seen here..........here.
will they ever quit trying to make a buck.

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i realized last night. if i never saw "gladiator" again i die a happy man. i also like when its cold outside and i get to walk around before i go to bed with the dog and i am almost miserable.

how odd it is that we find God in the oddest places. I don't understand how the church got the way it is now. jonathan edwards talked about how much he liked to take his walks in the woods. if i dont paint, even though i do it crappy, i start to get jittery. and since i get to do it out in the woods i kill 2 birds with one stone. i like it that way.

somethings happening, i can tell

i am spending my morning revisting one of the classes I took in undergrad. I was a sociology major and I enjoyed it(unlike others who were there for an easy A). In the substance abuse class you mainly learn how to put on an intervention. This morning I Chad Brooks and playing the most well put together mescaline user I have ever seen. I have thoughts of taping it and maybe putting it up here.....not sure of that just yet.

"taking the church home" this was a phrase I heard a few days ago. I have a small group of friends who live here in Ruston and really get scratched up when they go to church. One of them (who has worked in plenty of churches) now says she goes just becuase she doesn't know any different. There is nothing else to do so she ust goes. Several of us meet because of the nomad nights. Usually after our business meetings we go to a chinese place here and eat. While we are there we usually start having church. We talk to each other, and find out what is going on. We tell each other that this is were we get our fix, sunday is there for us to help others.

my hope is that others can do this and maybe try to help our "real" churches instead of going and starting new ones that will suck in 15 years anyway because they aren't meeting needs anymore

coonhunting

Here in north louisiana we have a bunch of really cool people that are interested in sweet things. We also have rednecks, who happen to be one of my favorite people groups....no one has fun like these guys. I went hunting with a few of them about a month ago and this is what happened. My wife fell in the creek and we bagged 3 raccons. just if you wonder, it is me howling through-out the movie.

so i have this meeting tommorow that I am not to excited about.

i want to write book. i think i will entitle it "hack theology". ( other titles i have wanted to write. "true stories from a lyin S.O.B", "Am i this smart or is the whole world this stupid", and finally a history book about 80 somethings called "the usual gang of hero's/)

I met with some friends last week that were unhappy about alot of the same church situations that make me unhappy. While we would like to be snobbish and leave and do our own thing our town needs another church like a gunshot to the head. We realize that the best thing is for all of us to stay in our current places and just try to work through things. While going off on our own seems so attractive and possible (half of us have worked in the ministry before and I still do currently) we think that it is not something that needs to happen at this time. Shonnie puts it like this, if ruston isn't cool enough lets just make it cool.

yeah i like that

so i have this meeting tommorow that I am not to excited about.

i want to write book. i think i will entitle it "hack theology". ( other titles i have wanted to write. "true stories from a lyin S.O.B", "Am i this smart or is the whole world this stupid", and finally a history book about 80 somethings called "the usual gang of hero's/)

I met with some friends last week that were unhappy about alot of the same church situations that make me unhappy. While we would like to be snobbish and leave and do our own thing our town needs another church like a gunshot to the head. We realize that the best thing is for all of us to stay in our current places and just try to work through things. While going off on our own seems so attractive and possible (half of us have worked in the ministry before and I still do currently) we think that it is not something that needs to happen at this time. Shonnie puts it like this, if ruston isn't cool enough lets just make it cool.

yeah i like that

this weekend was great. I could not have asked anything thing more. I also got to get on top of lewis's.


here is a list of things that are cool and need to be checked out.

1. The night air. the best podcast ever. search itunes for it. it is done by the abc radio national. its austrailian. and cooler than anything else.

2. tallskinnikiwi. a great blog about new church culture. a must see check-out.

3. thisisnotart.org. a great site showing new art and media. it is way to cool

please drop me an email if you would. i want to know who all is checking this out. chadbrooksis@gmail.com

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well This is what I am presenting to the Nomad Nights tonight. I am excitd about this because it actually is something I have spent time doing.

so my feed isnt working well for some reason. i think i may have to bite the bullet and start paying for stuff. it would probably be worth it to shell the cash out that. itunes and feedburner havent picked up the feed from stellamaris yet

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this is a quick movie from a band we had play at wesley this last weekend.

i feel like some kind of heathen. i skipped church today to get meredith's (my wife) birthday stuff together. after around 65 of work last week I had no real time.

I just saw someone step into the coffee shop I am at that was a member of a bible study "house church" i used to lead. after to many people started saying church i got scared and allowed it all to peter out. I still don't know what I think about it.

I saw where my circulation is at and I started to wonder are people surfing in, if you are drop me an email

chadbrooksis@gmail.com

thanks, content this week

chad

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This is a video we made for the well. We are studying Mark 2:1-12 tonight and this is a section from Daniel 7:12-13 that speaks of the messiah and what he will be. It has a place in the message tonight so we decided to use a different way of showing it.

Last night at the meeting our talk degenerated into pseudo- religious conversation, something that we had no problem doing. It was interesting to see the views of some of some of the other Nomads. Shonnie worked in NYC for awhile and had a gripe with the "emerging" movement. But I don't blame her. She had very good points to make. Hopefully i will have the time to try to have a podcast round table about some of these views.

but also a art roundtable. last night was great. I was with three other people all have art degrees and being very talented. One of my favorite installation artists is in on the Nomad Night Films. They all talked about needing me there with them, and here I am a hack with a powerbook and a can of spray paint. I guess it comes full circle, but anyway it was really really cool.

StellaMaris at Wesley friday night

film club in ruston, low key underground. not unlike minicine.

this is something that we are very excited about. it could bring some real cool things to ruston. i am excited about this. by tommorow I should have a link up for at least a blog. i think that is the format of web expression we are going to deal with for right now, maybe some podcasting/vlog stuff, but just blog for now.

this is just another way for me get together with some artists and explore what we think Christ as for us.