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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
Truth, Justice, and Righteousness
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
Family as Ministry
Marriage as Ministry (Part Two)
The Bad Habits of Christendom Evangelism – “The Romans Road,” The Four Spiritual Laws, Evangelism Explosion and the Bridge Illustration (WTWNC 3)
Marriage as Ministry (Part One)
The Great Debate
Should We Chase After Christians Who Come to Our Sunday Gathering When They Do Not Feel Welcome?: When They Will Not Come 2
J R Woodward’s “Good News” Series: Life After Easter in the Suburbs
The Post-Black, Post-White Church
“Let’s Take a Year and Just Do This Ourselves First”: Initiating Missional Change
A Mystagogy for the Missional Church
Skye Jethani’s “Divine Commodity”: The economic crisis as opportunity for “creative dislocation” in the church
Oscar Romero: Some Spiritual Formation for Church-Planters during Holy Week
Tony Jones Asks: Are Academic Theologians Useless?
Church Planting Assumptions of the Neo-Reformed: Some Observations for Testing
Church Planting in Post Christendom – Is There Such a Thing? Fuller’s D.Min Course
Things that Make You Go “Hmmmmmm”