


Seminaries in the Crucible: What is Being Forged? (Disruption in Theological Education, Pt. 1)

Mental Illness: 7 Practices for Ministering Well—Even if You’re Not A Mental Health Professional

How A Theology of the City Helps the Whole Church: A Review of Urban Spirituality by Karina Kreminski
Larycia Hawkins on Stepping Out onto the Bridge of Solidarity.
“What does it mean to be an embodied question mark wherever you are on your journey?” This was the question Dr. Larycia Hawkins presented to her students at Wheaton College. “Our bodies do work for us.”
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Should we be Hero-Makers?
Should we strive to be hero-makers?
Should we just be side-kicks?
And are Dave and Geoff just being too picky about stuff?
David Fitch and Geoff Holsclaw end the year talking about the importance of language when it comes to leadership in the church?
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The Missio Alliance Essential Reading List of 2017
Are Sacraments for Mission?
Are sacraments for those outside the church?
Are sacraments for those coming in or going out?
Can something that’s not a sacrament be sacramental?
Ranging across topics, David Fitch and Geoff Holsclaw have two guests on—Ben Sternke and Matt Tebbe of Gravity Leadership—to talk about the role of sacraments in mission.
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Why is Your Church Here? The 3 Streams of Cultural Accommodation
Why is your church here? What are you doing? How are you moving forward?
The answer to these questions is often based on your assumptions about the church’s place in culture.
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If God is Everywhere, Why Does God Draw Near?
Can we become more aware of God’s presence?
Why do we pray for God to come if God is already everywhere?
And what do these questions have to do with mission?
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Returning to Joy in a Troubled World
How is joy a source of strength?
Why was it joy for Jesus to endure the cross?
Is joy just happy-clappy sentimentality?
Mandy Smith and Scott Jones join Geoff Holsclaw to talk about the need to return to joy.
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Converts Or Proselytes? The Change Jesus Makes
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Does Jesus seek Proselytes or Converts? And what is the difference?
David Fitch and Geoff Holsclaw discuss why the Apostle Paul was so angry with the Galatians, and whether we are called to renounce one cultural identity in favor of a new one (Proselyte Model) and or called to take up the same identity in a new way (Conversion Model).
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Advice to a Mega-Church (or any) Pastor
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Why do pastors burn out? And what can be done about it?
Are you burning out? Is your church leading you to the brink?
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3 Ways (Not) to Start Your Theology
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Does systematic theology have a future?
And if so, where should it begin?
And what does it matter?
Geoff Holsclaw and regular guest Scott Jones (because Fitch is big-timing it in Pasadena) discuss the three major critiques of systematic theology and then talk about three possible ways to begin theology and how we need them all.
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3 Evangelical Off-Ramps
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Are we all just reacting to various Fundamentalisms here in America? Is there a doctrinal identity or a practical mission at the center of American Evangelicalism?
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Gender Differences: 3 Views
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Is there a difference between female and male? And if there is, why? And how do we explain it?
These are the pertinent questions that our culture casts before the church.
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Theological Jenga: The Word Blocks of Mission
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“In the beginning God raised Jesus from the dead” ~Michael W. Pahl
(From Resurrection to New Creation: A First Journey in Christian Theology)
Where does theology come from?
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Does God Love You? Have a Plan for You?
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What does it mean that “God loves you and has a wonderful plan for your life?” Is this messages distorted amid a culture of affluence and ease?
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Reformation, We Have a Problem!
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Does the Reformation though help us engage in mission? Does typical protestant theology have a power problem and a context problem which work against mission?
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The Art of Bi-Vocational
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Is being a bi-vocational pastor a necessary evil or a positive opportunity?
In this re-broadcast of the most popular episode of “Theology on Mission”, David Fitch and Geoff Holsclaw discuss bi-vocational ministry, how it is an opportunity to rethink pastoral vocation and church ministry, all wrapped in personal stories.
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Church Planting without Women = Disaster
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What does complimentarianism and equalitarianism have to do with church planting? Is there a third way concerning women in ministry? And what is the role of the Holy Spirit in all this.
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