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

Anybody in leadership will be criticized (Well duh – that’s like saying “the Pope’s Catholic”).  When the criticism bears some resemblance to the truth, that’s good - the leader gets to respond by growing.  The critic has unwittingly been a friend.  But often the criticism is a figment of somebody’s fertile (or even malicious) imagination.  What happens then?  I absolutely love how… Read More

John Ortberg (editor at large of LeadershipRead More

This book has appeared on my radar from time to time, but for various reasons I’ve never blessed Amazon with my order.  But one of the guys at Soma school (Caesar K) so highly recommended it (he said “you need to get it yesterday”) that I took the plunge.  And wow, what a plunge.  I already follow Alan Hirsch – one of the authors - on Twitter, so I’m pretty familiar with him (he’s a South African Jew, now loving Jesus and living in… Read More

A minister, about to write an article criticizing a fellow minister for his lack of orthodoxy, wrote to John Newton of his intention. Newton replied (The Works of John Newton, Letter XIX "On Controversy.") as follows: Dear Sir, As you are likely to be engaged in controversy, and your love of… 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

This from M.D. and the good folks at Mars Hill.  I love it. Leadership is lonely. Anyone who disagrees is likely not a leader. By definition, a leader is out ahead of his or her team, seeing, experiencing, and learning things before everyone else. One on hand, this causes great excitement and enthusiasm because the opportunity to learn and pioneer is incredibly invigorating. On the other hand, however, the distance between a leader and… 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