Church planting

Ending Church

The Church exists by mission as fire exists by burning – Emil Brunner A while back my 3-year old daughter drew a picture on the whiteboard and turned to me exclaiming “Daddy look at my beautiful drawing!” I quickly said “Let’s go show mommy”, but before I could get her she wiped it away. I [...]

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One size fits all?

Joe Manafo just sent me the documentary he made with Nathan Colquhoun, called One Size Fits All? What is God doing on the fringes of Canadian culture? Flying under the radar of pop-Christianity, experimental churches are quietly establishing genuine Kingdom outposts in settings both feared and forgotten. ‘One Size Fits All?’ uncovers the obscure story [...]

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Plugs and name dropping…

Lots of great connections this past week, I don’t know how I’ve managed with my daughter tagging along full time the last while! Excellent video skype chat with Jay Lee, church planter of Catalyst GTA of Every Nation ministry.  If you’re in the UT area, check’em out. Had a great call from Marty Schmidt the [...]

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What I do…

Over five years ago I adopted this mission statement for my life – To live by faith, to cultivate love, and to be a voice of hope. I wrapped up my degree in May and gave myself a blank slate to work from going forward (even though I had planned the next thirty years of [...]

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The multiplying church

I just finished Bob roberts Jr.‘s The Multiplying Church. I hope it’s on the to-read list for every church leader in North America. It’s not quite as technical as Stetzer‘s Planting Missional Church’s, less dense and cerebral than Hirsch‘s Forgotten Ways, and a bit more strategic than Cole‘s Organic Church (All of which are excellent [...]

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Linkorama…

Some random links you might find intriguing… Similar to LifeChurch’s mysecret.tv, another space for web 2.0 confessions IveScrewedUp.com Rob Bell stuff – Transcript of latest nooma “Open” and new book coming out WordPress 2.5 is being released soon – looking forward to doing some upgrades here Following Radiohead’s lead – Download Nine Inch Nails’ latest [...]

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Church planting wives…

Some 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 [...]

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Latest Links…

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 [...]

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