Tim Keller and the folks at Redeemer City to City put up this great post:

How Should Churches and Leaders Be Preparing to Address These Big Issues Facing the Church?

1. The local church has to support culture-making. Most of the young evangelicals interested in integrating their faith with film-making, journalism, corporate finance, etc, are getting their support and mentoring from… Read More

What's it take to be a good friend?  Someone has suggested these characteristics of good friends:

• Honesty - Will you tell me the truth? The best gift that someone can give me is honest affirmation (don’t patronize me) and honest correction.  Not everyone has the “right” to speak into… Read More

Everything below is cut from Matt Troupe's FB wall.  Read at your own risk! ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The following are some quotes from the talk I heard with Jeff Vandersteldt recently. Some are summaries and paraphrases of major points. Lots of great stuff to wrestle with. • Biblical disciples cannot be made in a classroom, and Biblical disciples cannot… Read More

Somnolence – “the state of being sleepy or drowsy.” Languor – “a lack of vigor or vitality, indifference.” Lethargy – “a condition of abnormal drowsiness or torpor.” In a game of word association, I hope you would never associate any of these words with your church.  Never.  If anything thrills, inspires, energizes, it ought to be our churches.  The local church is the hope of the world.  We are deployed on the… Read More

I've just read, re-read and re-re-read Steve Addison's amazing little book "Movements that Change the World" (visit his web site here).  It's a dangerous book. (As a completely random aside, did you know that there's a fabulous pie shop in B'more called "Dangerously Delicious." Their t-shirt has a pie and cross bones motif that looks like this) OK, back to the book.  It's dangerously delicious.  Addison's thesis is that movements… Read More

Tamdiu discendum est, quamdiu vivas - We should learn as long as we may live  – Seneca. Lifelong learners are deeply inquisitive.  They’re committed to continually seeing reality more and more accurately.  They live continually in learning mode.  They never “arrive.”  They’re always in process.  They are acutely aware of their ignorance, their incompetence, and their need for growth.  They constantly… Read More

Pastor Mark Batterson writes: "If you say what God wants you to say, then all the criticism in the world doesn't matter. If you don't say what God wants you to say, thenall the compliments in the world don't matter. In fact, those compliments can become your downfall. Criticism is dangerous. It can harden your heart and poison your spirit if you don't handle it the right way. But I wonder Read More