This Blog Has a New Home…

I recently decided to disconnect the good name of The Bridge from the nonsensical rantings and postings of its lead pastor…
Real Tim Dunn is the result
If you did follow Bridge Blog please transfer over, subscribe, and continue to connect with me at the new site
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With love for AO

Shout out to our new Discipleship Pastor, Alan Oliver…

“I Got Bored with Relevance and Just Wanted Truth”

…A first time visitor to The Bridge made this statement to me following our gathering this Sunday
It struck me that she made a distinction between truth and relevance.
She was a very engaging, obviously intelligent women, and she has come to understand what the church has been selling for some time: truth and relevance are different.
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If you are getting married soon…

I have a couple of weddings coming up that I will be officiating…
If I could humbly, but vehemently suggest that you choose to format the ceremony with this beginning I think it will provide a memorable experience for all

The New York Times Visits my Hood

Check out a great article in the New York Times on Cincinnati and some of its hot spots (from their 36 hour visit)

Theology Pub (Love this Idea)

Check out this idea and pics from Joe Thorn (pastor of Redeemer Fellowship in the western burbs of Chicago)
His church recently began the idea of hosting spiritual conversations in a local Irish pub…of the attending group, 40% are outsiders (not connected to Redeemer/not Christ followers)

Ted Haggard at Elevation Church

About a 40 minute interview by Steven Furtick with Ted Haggard
What do you think?
Has been fascinating to watch the church respond/not respond to this tragedy.
A mainline, well known, evangelical pastor commits sexual sin, and not just sexual sin, but gay sexual sin.
How do you think we have done?

I don’t know about Britain, but she has talent

Town Hall for Hope

The Bridge is hosting Dave Ramsey’s Town Hall for Hope
When: Thursday, April 23rd at 8 PM
Where: Stetson Sqaure
3010 Eden Ave Cincinnati, OH 45219
http://www.townhallforhope.com/

I Believe…

little under the weather and lots to do…
will fire up the “I Believe” series tomorrow
until then…
“our culture prefers effortless spontaneity with occasional divine intervention in emergencies, rather than working with God on developing the muscles which will meet those emergencies with a God given second nature which appears spontaneous, but in fact is the result [...]