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Four Practices to Help Your Church Grieve Personal and National Tragedy

Reclaiming God’s Intent for Sabbath

7 Practices for Hearing and Responding to the Margins (Especially During Elections)

Eternal Submission? Thinking (all the way) Through the Issue

Preached to Death

The Orlando Shooting: Who Would Jesus Blame?

What if We Stopped the Token Talk and Welcomed Female Preachers?

How Lament Quells the Terrorist in Each of Us

Avoiding the Blow-down from Helicopter Pastoring
Four Images of Jesus’ Ministry that Would Bomb on Social Media

Rape: Five Ways Your Church Can Talk About It

Three Tenets for a New Kind of Gospel-Centeredness

Knowing God in a Secular World

The Crucial Gift

The Surprising Place I Learned About Oppression

Writing as a Spiritual Discipline

Who Do We Get to Hate?

Stop Blaming Venus and Mars. We’re All From Earth

The Women ISIS Fears

Let’s Talk About Sex

The Lord’s Prayer, a Missional Reading: Give Us Daily Bread

The Subversive Act Of Friendship

The Future Is Small

Do You Know Jesus Like You Know a Presidential Candidate?

Six Pieces of Weird Christian Baggage Still Worth Redeeming

Putting an End to Revival for Pentecost’s Sake

The Church is Not a Triangle

I Hunger and Thirst for Revival: A Pastor’s Confession

Stop Trying to Control God’s Uncontrollable Tactics for Reconciliation

Jesus Was a Guest. What If We Acted The Same Way?

For People Exhausted by the Negative Perception of the Church

4 Qualities of Missional Movements Born at the Margins

Do You Even Want Revival?

The Big Problem with Barna’s Study on Church Startups and Money

The Lord’s Prayer, A Missional Reading: Thy Kingdom Come

Book Review: The Dusty Ones by A.J. Swoboda

Unformation: Learning to Experience God in My Darkness

Mentor for Life—A Review

How These Hero Children Revolutionized What it Means to “Advocate”

Pentecost Prayer for a Confined Spirit

Four Practices that Shape Us Into “Sent Ones”

A Way Beyond Spiritual Hoarding

Ashes to Ashes, Birth to Freedom and Liberation Songs

The Never Ending Work of Church Reformation

What the Church Could Learn from Oprah

A Spirited Discussion: Waiting is Hard

Jesus’ Creed and a Missional Understanding of Discipleship

Revival at the Margins: How Emptiness Prepares us for the Spirit

The Unexpected Value of Insignificance

The Failure of Complementarian Manhood

The Best Words a Pastor Can Hear

Starting New Communities for Mission

7 Ways Missional Spirituality is Different than Christian Spirituality

My Call to Senior Pastoral Ministry

Jeremiah vs. Augustine: What Mysticism Says About Goodness & Depravity

Tim Otto On The Idol of the Romanticized Sexualized American Nuclear Family

Would Jesus Bake a Gay Couple a Cake? Or Two?

Diverse Perspectives on Leading Multi-Cultural Missional Communities

How to go from “Worst-Case Scenario” as a Parent to a Transformational Encounter with Jesus
