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“Nothing Can Separate Us From the Love of God”
On Making Justice Local and the Upcoming Evolving Church Conference
Woman and Men in Ministry Together: Affirming Women and Transforming – The Missional Way
6 Reasons Not To Go To Church
Lent @ “the Vine”
The church’s role within the Missio Dei – Yes we still need the church.
Amazing Opportunities to Learn: Church Planting, John Franke and other Missional Assundries
A NEW KIND OF INCLUSIVITY: Before I Talk about Women in Ministry and GLBT Relations
Missional Soteriology: Does the Missional Vision Change How People Get Saved?
Women in Ministry and the Gay/Lesbian Question: The Post-Evangelical Terrain As I See It
Prologue to Missional Discussions
A Church Planting Bootcamp – and A Free Seminary Education
McLaren’s New Kind of Christianity – There’s a parting of the ways here – and that’s alright – Towards a New Missional Nicaea (Someday)
Preaching for the Missional Church: One More Tidbit from Dallas Willard at the Ecclesia Network National Gathering
Dallas Willard on Missional Evangelism – Willard at Ecclesia Network National Gathering
Stuck between Mohler and McLaren: The Incarnational Approach to Leading in Our Disagreements
Mere Churchianity: Michael Spencer’s Upcoming Book
Not A “Franchise”: Steps to Seeding a Missional Community in the Neighborhood
The State of the Union and the State of the (American) Church: The Incarnational Witness to Peace
Emergent, Organic, Missional Church: Methinks We Worry Too Much
…until justice rolls down like waters: Contrasting Martin Luther King with pres. Obama
8 Things You Should Notice At a Missional Sunday Gathering
The Tactic of “Thank- you – but I would prefer not to”: On the Societal Pressures that Undercut Mission in America
Countdown to The Missional Learning Commons!: Bring Some Coffee!
Fifty Years of Church Planting: the Story as I See It…
Top Ten Posts 2009: Merry Christmas and a Look Back at This Blog
Why is the Emergent/Missional Church So White?: Soong-Chan Rah’s Next Evangelicalism and Why It Doesn’t Go Far Enough (in Exposing White Western Cultural Captivity)
Tim Keller’s “Country Parson”: The Small Dying Urban/Suburban Church Vs. The Small Country Church as a Training Ground For Mission
“You Must Admit You Are A Sinner!”: Why This Doesn’t Work in Post Christendom Evangelism
The Collateral Damage of Video-Venues: A Challenge To All Video Venue Multi-Site Church Leaders – DO A SURVEY!
ANNOUNCING 3rd Annual MISSIONAL LEARNINGS COMMONS: A Missional Non/Conference Jan 8-9 2010
Can Missional Be Multi-Site? 3 Characteristics of Missional Preaching
IMAGES THAT HELP US THINK ABOUT THE NEW SITUATION WE ARE IN #1: The Image of “THE OTHER” and Post Christendom Evangelism
Bloggage I Can Sympathize With and More (i.e. With Commentary) #1
A Warning List For Those Who Would Join a Missional Church Gathering
“Ed and Me” Part 2, and 3 and Beyond
Bi-vocational – or – go on staff at a large church: Suddenly bi-vocational ministry doesn’t look so bad?
Missional Discipleship – The Struggles of Leading a People into the Concrete Everyday Missional Life
The Numbers Do Not Lie: Christendom is consolidating into the Mega Church
IF I JUST PREACH A GOOD SERMON- THEY WILL COME: Three Dying Myths (of Christendom) About Preaching
WTWNC: From Bridge to Onramp – On a Proposed Way to Teach People Missional Evangelism
All is Fair in Health and War?
Some Things on the Horizon
Missional Church Planting Laboratory: A Report
Ordination and the Lord’s Table: PROVIDING SOME “SHAPE” FOR “THE THINGS TO COME”
The Seven Indispensable Virtues of a Missional Leader
Our President is an Angry Black Man
Im with Dr Gates and You Should Be Too
Biblical Social Economic Justice
I’m in Canada – for a week – relaxing.
CHIC A Movement in the Making
The Witness of the Church to the Gay/Lesbian Peoples – Miss California U S A and the Politics of Sexual Redemption
A Systems Approach to the Multicultural Church
Book Clubs For The Homeless – On The Relational Nature of God’s Justice
The Christendom Nostalgia – Leading us out of it by using the words of Billy Graham
Beloved Worship and the Arts
Missional Theology: Towards a Theology that Shapes a People for Mission – A new course offering at Northern
THE THREE BIGGEST FEARS WE MUST FACE WHEN PLANTING A CHURCH/ I.E. SEEDING A MISSIONAL COMMUNITY
“The Gospel Coalition” and Post-Christendom: Will it be a Coalition or an Expedition? Some Reflections and Concerns