I’ve been reading a book by Eugene Peterson called, Living the Resurrection and wanted to share a short section with you. Hopefully it will encourage you in your workday or wherever you are…
“The [world] is obviously not a vacation paradise. Its more like a warzone. And that’s where we Christians are stationed, along with the [...]
By the way, that really, really cute Guatemalan kid at the top of my blog is my son. We’re in the process of adopting him and hope to have him home in 4-6 weeks (today is March 27th). We can’t wait to bring him home! Read more about it here.
You just don’t get endings like this often…watch this. It’s amazing.
HT: Vitamin Z
Below is a paper I wrote in an effort to give an introduction to Mission in a Suburban Context. I presented this paper at the Eastern Region Evangelical Theological Society meeting on March 23, 2007. There is much more that needs to be written, but hopefully this serves as a helpful introduction. Feel free [...]
After a kind suggestion from one of my professors at Biblical, I submitted a paper I wrote called, “The Gospel and the God Forsaken: The Challenge of the Missional Church in Suburban America” to the ETS regional student paper contest.
My basic premise was that the suburbs are one of the most “god-forsaken” places on the [...]
I’ve been trying to be continually reading about leadership and have found the book Effective Church Leadership by Kennon Callahan very helpful. Now, truth be told, most of the titles of Ken’s books are fairly uninspiring. They sound like old school books that are outdated and no self-respecting young pastor would be drawn [...]
This is a very, very helpful perspective on evangelism from Andrew Hamilton in Australia. I feel he has a pretty good balance here in looking at friendship in evangelism and just simply sharing our hope (my alternative to saying “sharing our faith”)
Read Andrew’s Thoughts Here
I headed down to Philadelphia to hang out with my friend LT (who is in my top five favorite people in the world!). LT is a pastor at Chinese Christian Church and it has been really interesting to learn over the years about the culture that the Chinese church in America faces. [...]
After a day of church, preaching and a great leadership team meeting, I’m finally taking an afternoon, watching basketball and enjoying a lazy Sunday afternoon. I took the guilt free free time to tidy up the blog design a little bit. I am not sure if you can notice, but I am finally [...]
Corporate Language in Leadership by Albert Hsu
Changing the way we see justice in the local church by David Fitch
How organizations transform themselves by Alan Jamieson of Prodigal Kiwi
35 Ways to Help the Homeless from JustGive.org (thanks for the tipoff Purple Pastor)
Updated:
Some Reasons Why the Lone “Senior Pastor” Might Not Make Sense Anymore by David [...]
My newfound blogging friend Tom Ward Jr. (affectionately known in some circles as Mr. Purple) and his church (Eastpoint) is hosting two really helpful looking events in the nexts couple months. I know that I will be making an effort to try and get down to part of the weekend with Scot McKnight as [...]