Formation

A space for reflections and perspectives on the task of forming Christian disciples and leaders.

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An Advent Invitation: Recalling God’s Promises with Every Breath

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The Colonization of Christian Leadership

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Pandemics Aren’t So Unprecedented: What We Can Learn from Early Christians

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The Need for Deeply Formed Pastors

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Repenting of our Scapegoating

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What Our Current Wilderness Reveals About the Strongholds in Our Lives

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Why Don’t We Pray?

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The Formational Power of Reading: A Requirement for all Leaders

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Stopping the Spread of Anxiety as a Contagion

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The Racism in my Consumerism

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Renewal in the Valley of the Pandemic

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Navigating the Unknown: Adaptive Leadership in Highly Anxious Times

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This Present Desert: God’s Invitation to Solitude and Slowness

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Emotional Health at Such a Time as This

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Pastoring in a Pandemic: Real-Life Reflections

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The Time Is Now for Breakthrough

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Leaning into God’s Shelter

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Ecclesiology in this Weird Time of Social Distancing

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Understanding Holy Saturday in the Midst of a Pandemic

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The Blessing of Sufficiency Through Self-Denial

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How to Have a Maundy Thursday Liturgy at Home

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No Palms? A Liturgy of Houseplants for Palm Sunday

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Our New Reality: Holy Week at Home

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The Practice of Remembering our Death

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A Saving Practice Amid a Heavy Lenten Season

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On Leading During a Pandemic

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Practicing Abundance in an Age of Anxiety

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Playfulness as an Antidote to Anxiety

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Practicing Hope When Our Hearts Are Troubled

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Our Need for Lament

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A Practice as Lent Begins: Giving from our Poverty

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Preaching “the Black Stuff”

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The Dance of Deference: Thoughts on Unity

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The Art of Grieving: A Spiritual Practice for our Time

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Ten Hopes and Prayers for the Next Ten Years

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When Mondays are the Pits: Four Practices to Nourish Your Soul

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Sermons Aren’t Everything

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The Difference Between Christian Institutions and the Kingdom

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Tremble this Advent

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Four Ways to Practice the Peace of Christ at Christmas

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Watching and Walking with Those in the Darkness

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Liberated by Perfect Love

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Meeting God in our Deepest Places

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Discipleship as Brain-Building

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A Risky Opportunity for Discipleship

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Four Surprising Habits for Christian Formation

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The Introverted Missional

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When Ministry Isn’t What You Expect

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The Impact of Western Ego on the Church

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Avoiding Leadership Inferiority Complex

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Dear Church: Your Mission Isn’t to Attract Millennials

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Rediscovering the Natural Church

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Faith Without Emotion is Dead: Avoiding False Choices When Leaders Fall

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Prophets vs. Pimps: The Tension of Spirit-Led Leadership

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Managing the Dangers of Chronic Anxiety

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How Anxiety So Easily Entangles Us

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The Flip Side of Longing

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Addressing the Elephant in the Church: Seven Necessary Components of Integrated Discipleship

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The Economy is Making Many Jobs Obsolete—How Churches Can Be Different

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The Poway Synagogue Shooting – We Should All be Surprised by the Surprise