Congregation
I'm reading Forces For Good: Six Practices of High-Impact Nonprofits by Leslie Crutchfield and Heather Grant. The authors studied hundreds of successful nonprofits and distilled these six practices of the best ones: 1. Advocate and serve. High-impact nonprofits do both -- serve through programs and advocate for systemic
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Creativity
Outreach magazine is working on its "Innovation" issue. In the past Outreach has focused on innovative churches. But this year they're focusing on the innovations themselves, and Outreach would like your input. Click here to go to Tony Morgan's blog and give Outreach your
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In the little Italian town of Marino, south of Rome, they celebrate a famous victory with a wine festival -- Sagra dell'Uva -- each year. During the festival, plumbers rechannel the town's fountain so that white wine flows from it at the height of the celebration.
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Here's the sermon I'm preaching tomorrow, Sunday, October 5, 2008. I hope your day is a good one. Pressing On Toward The Prize Philippians 3:4b-14If anyone else thinks he has reasons to put confidence in the flesh, I have more: 5circumcised on the eighth day,
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In my review of Phyllis Tickle's new book, The Great Emergence, I questioned the accuracy of Tickle's information about John Wimber and her conclusions that credit Wimber as a "proto-emergent" who influenced the current emerging church conversation. After I posted that review, I searched
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This is the sermon I'm preaching tomorrow, Sunday, September 28, 2008. The Mind of Christ Philippians 2:1-13 NIV1If you have any encouragement from being united with Christ, if any comfort from his love, if any fellowship with the Spirit, if any tenderness and compassion, 2then make my
Culture
Phyllis Tickle's newest book, The Great Emergence: How Christianity Is Changing and Why, arrived yesterday. At 172 pages, this small but elegant volume (aren't all Tickle's books elegant?) both informs and disappoints. Tickle takes on the daunting task of reviewing the major turning points
Creativity
You can catch me on a webinar tomorrow, Thursday, 2 PM ET/11 AM PT, where I'll preview my NOC2008 workshop, Small Churches Make Good Neighbors. I'll be on with Mark DeYmaz, author of Building A Healthy Multi-Ethic Church. I'm looking forward to what
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Tom Sine's latest book, The New Conspirators, celebrates the increasing diversity in the church. Sine's book continues the theme of his classic book, The Mustard Seed Conspiracy, published in 1981. Sine was a 'red-letter Christian' before the official group existed, and in this hopeful
Culture
Alltop.com is a new blog aggregator from the minds of the same folks who brought you truemors.com. Alltops aggregates a huge amount of stuff in a variety of categories, church.alltop.com being one of them. I am happy to report that we made the cut, or the
Congregation
Today I bought pollster John Zogby's new book, The Way We'll Be, subtitled, The Zogby Report on The Transformation of the American Dream. Called a "super pollster" because he uses innovative methodologies in his polling work, Zogby sees a very different future for the