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Keller – Church and Future

Thursday, February 25th, 2010
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

Great Read

Monday, November 2nd, 2009
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

Zeal and Resolve

Wednesday, October 7th, 2009
This has been lifted from Ray Ortlund.  I like it (obviously). And maybe this helps explain why I like UFC (and WEC) so much. "Christian leaders take courage from the gospel of Jesus...   The authority of the gospel inspires in men inflexible resolve for the greater glory of Christ. They are men of passion, men of enthusiasm,… Read More

Jeff V Ripps It Up!

Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009
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

906 Baptized

Thursday, September 17th, 2009
New Spring Church baptized 906 people last weekend.  Just thought you might want to know that.   Read More

Dangerously Delicious

Friday, August 21st, 2009
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

Redeemer Church Planting

Wednesday, July 1st, 2009
Here's an exciting (and brief) video about Redeemer's (NYC) vision for planting churches in major cities of the world.  Once you get there, click on the picture that looks like this:  Read More

Great Commission Resurgence

Monday, June 29th, 2009
Here are a few excerpts from Daniel Akin's post: “Axioms for a Great Commission Resurgence.” This is good stuff!  Read the whole post here. Read More

To the Streets

Wednesday, June 24th, 2009
Great post here on what Jesus did with his disciples (he took them to the streets).  Do the pastors we admire do what Jesus did?  Read More

At a Starbucks Near You?

Tuesday, June 9th, 2009
J. D. Grear writes: "We got to baptize a girl yesterday from one of the local coffee shops we are seeing God move in. I went in there the other day, and a guy who DOESN'T go to our church said that they sometimes play our podcast in this Starbucks when they set up in the morning. That's pretty amazing. He brews." Could this happen at MY Starbucks, or at YOURS? Incidentally, last night I hung for a while at Starbucks (Vivano with espresso!).  Wasn't there 10 minutes before the couple beside me began to talk with me.  We… Read More