dave

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Gender	Male
Industry	Religion
Occupation	pastor
Location	Fresno, California, United States
Links	Audio Clip, Wishlist
Introduction	I am: a heteroclite truster in Jesus; watching for God-tracks in and out of the box; married to a perfect Sonya; dad to a perfect Tim and Sara; pastor/goatherder of a missional church plant called thirddayfresno; Grad of Fresno Pacific University in Communication/Spanish Language and Culture; Asbury Theological Seminary, Masters of Divinity. Serve on leadership for a non-denominational, "connection w/o control" network of churches, gatherings and ministries called Grace Covenant International. Teach Bible in the adjunct Degree Completion Program for Fresno Pacific University, and for Latin American Bible Institute, (Fresno/Sanger Extension)
Interests	Jesus, real real people, Kingdom, church and culture, NT, reading, writing, kids, people-watching, theology, physics, emerging church, string theory, music, shift, St. Arbuck's, U2, Houses That Change the World, Christian satire, postmodern theory, Kierkegaard, epistemology, servant evangelism, Israel, Peru, becoming a cultural architect, Myers-Briggs
Favorite Movies	Matrix, Grand Canyon, The Incredibles, Ghandi, The Truman Show, Eleven Conversations About One Thing, Rattle and Hum, Galaxy Quest, Sex Lies and Videotape, 2001, Silent Running, While You Were Sleeping, Attack of the Killer Tomatoes, Dream Team, Kpax, Parenthood, L.A. Story, Magnolia, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYcwfFMvZjg
Favorite Music	U2, You Too, Tu Tambien, The Violet Burning, The 77s, Seventy Sevens, Bruce Cockburn, David Crowder, Bach, David Ruis, Delirious, Sigur Ros, Rich Mullins, Jason Upton, Keith Green, Misty Edwards, Rita Springer, Iona, Sinead O'Connor, Mark Heard, Johnny Cash, Mike Knott, LSU, Cush, Moya Brennan, Chagall Guevara, Coldplay, Radiohead, Peter Gabriel, 70s Genesis, Athlete, The Cure, The Call, The Choir, Arcade Fire, Neil Young, Bob Dylan, Steve Taylor, Kedare, Something Like Silas, The Gravity Show, Michael Pritzl, Steve Hackett
Favorite Books	La Biblia, baby; Clinical Theology, The World is Flat, Godel Escher Bach, The Astonished Heart, Parables of the Kingdom, The Next Reformation, Presence of the Kingdom, Pedagogia del Oprimido, The Weight of Glory, Nexus, The Forgotten Ways, The Elegant Universe, Houses That Change The World, The Man Who Tasted Shapes, Cruel Shoes, The Divine Voice, The Elegant Universe, The Great Emergence, The Spiritual Man, This is Your Brain on Music, The Rule of Metaphor, The Trinity and the Kingdom, Einstein's Violin, The Barbarian Way, Third Day Churches, Walk On, Everyday Apocalypse, The Parables of Kierkegaard, Either/Or, Martian Chronicles, Truly Ourselves Truly the Spirit's, Oremos, Truth and Method, Reversed Thunder