February 28, 2008Some excellent resources I just stumbled across specifically for spouses of church planters…
Free downloadable book, “My husband wants to be a church planter“, discussion guide as well here.
(The book includes chapters by wife of Bob Roberts of Glocalnet, Niki, and wife of Erwin McManus of Mosaic LA, Kim. HT: Truly Captivating.
Planterwives.com for current or future [...]
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February 8, 2008Do you believe in Beincarnation?
I heard this creative term a number of years ago and it’s never left me.
Similar to my post on tantric preaching, beincarnation co-opts another traditionally ‘Eastern’ term - Reincarnation. I’ll assume that’s okay since Jesus was an eastern teacher…
Reincarnation is driven by the cosmic judgment of your deeds in [...]
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February 4, 2008I just received an advanced copy of “The Tangible Kingdom - Creating incarnational community” from Leadership Network by Hugh Halter and Matt Smay. I have so many other things to read, but I haven’t been able to put this one down.
Without giving away too much of the content, let me just say it’s refreshing [...]
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January 31, 2008 Nothing to say today.
Just some random links I’ve come across the last while
The Toronto Star - a secular newspaper surprisingly did a segment on church planting movements
The lifecyle of a blog post
How Erwin McManus got his last name
Barack Obama - Article by Caroline Kennedy, and interview with Christianity Today
Young preacher and [...]
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January 28, 2008Recently I was working on a research project interviewing a wide spectrum of people at a church. Questions were along the lines of where they were at spiritually with the church, what could use improvement, what they would do to change things and so on.
One interesting insight that came out of it was when [...]
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January 25, 2008To illustrate my last post.
Eight years ago, I spent a summer living in a house (supposedly an old brothel that had been renovated, but that’s another story) with five other guys. It got so dirty with our lack of cleaning, by the end of that summer, there were foot-high mushrooms growing out of the [...]
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January 24, 2008Photo by Roger Cullman www.rogercullman.com
Preaching last week, I slipped out something I probably needed to hear more for myself. I told people that they don’t need a rock-star pastor or a superstar leader. They need Jesus in their lives.
With the very best of what church’s and the world has to offer available on [...]
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January 23, 2008I’ve been setting course to church plant after I graduate for a number of years. For the longest time I’ve been contemplating doing something different, better, more innovative, than church as usual.
At the end of the day though, I find many of my ideas haven’t been all that radical.
Just because our church might be [...]
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January 10, 2008This past Sunday I introduced our church to r.e.a.l. disciplines. This is something I adapted from Michael Frost’s BELLS and Neil Cole’s LTG’s.
r.e.a.l. is an acronym for Reflect, Eat, Act, and Listen. Our goal is not simply to be a community of faith, but a community of practice.
What does it mean to incarnate [...]
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January 7, 2008Some authors that I read (and respect), seem to be at their very best when they’re critiquing the church.
And they’re often right, much of the church is not in good shape right now and we do need to be able to name and own up to our weaknesses.
At the same time, we need to remember [...]
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