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Plagiarized Sermons?
Is the church a place to hear good preaching? or more “prodigal” than that?
Robert Farrar Capon on Confession of Sin by MattTebbe
The Example of Lawndale Christian Community: Four Lessons to Learn for Every Missional Leader
The Challenge of Being The Church in the World by David Fitch
Three Ways to Keep Your Sheep From Getting Stolen by Chris Morton
Ignore Ideology at Your Own Risk: One More Look at the LGBTQ Debate.
Is Black History Month worth it?
The Doctor of – Missional Church – Ministry Continues to Grow
I Quit… by Ty Grigg
Mega Churches Steal Sheep: My Ongoing Debate With Ed Stetzer
Missional? Not Another Program At Your Local Church
What we HOPE ‘Missional’ Could Mean by Geoff Holsclaw
To my college friends dealing with crusading atheists…
The Grace to Do Nothing: On Social Justice in the Neighborhood
Prodigal Christianity: Why We Wrote This Book
Gary Nelson on Canadians, Mission and the Missio Alliance
Is the Gospel the Center of the Church or is Jesus? Dialoguing with Tim Keller’s Center Church
“Hugging the Cactus” As Gateway to the Gospel by Matt Tebbe
Bruxy Cavey, the Anabaptist Vision and Mission
Mission Statement or Shared Imagination? How We Gather by David Fitch
Mission Hidden in Plain Sight: The Gospel in Everyday Life by Cyd Holsclaw
Fresh Expressions Coming to the Midwest
Me and the Ideology of Sex: Some Reflection on Yesterday’s Post
“Regarding LGBTQ, What is Your Position?” “I Don’t Have One”
Living Letters and the “nones”
Contextual Theology and Why Seminaries Should Do It by David Fitch
Are the Neo-Reformed/Evangelicals Niebuhrians? and therefore ill equipped for Post-Christendom?
Missional Church Needs More Substantive Theology!
Do We Still Need “Home Visitations” in Post-Christendom? by Ty Grigg
“God Used You To Destroy My World”: Preaching and Spiritual Formation
Taking This Blog to The Next Thing: Announcing Changes for The New Year 2013
3 Signs You Are Not A Leader (in the Kingdom)
Welcome 2013!
When Nihilism Visits the Shopping Mall: A Brief Word to Missional Communities During Advent
Minnesota (N)ice
On Going to the Sick (in the Neighborhood)
The Groucho Marx Theory of Church
Lance Ford’s “UnLeader”: Deconstructing what “leadership” has become in the N. American church.
Learning a “Way of Life” Is Step One in Planting a Missional Community
Not out of place
Proclaiming Gospel: Preaching on Sunday as Practice for the Rest of the Week
Proclaiming the Gospel as Reality-Creating Event: or 3 reasons why this is not your parent’s evangelism.
D. Min Missional : Announcing the New Cohort for 2013 ( and Scot McKnight Joins Us!)
Proclaiming the Gospel in The Neighborhood
My Post-Election Review of Peter Leithart’s “Between Babel and Beast”
We Don’t Vote for Persons. We Vote for Commericals. Why Voting is not as important as the Lord’s Table – and we should start living like it.
The Paradox of Giving
The Table in the Neighborhood
The Organic Intellectual: Why the Pastor-Contextual-Theologian is the Future of Church Leadership in N. America
The Gospel and Loneliness
I’m in LA this weekend, in Chicago (Lombard) next weekend. Join me?
Should We Gather? When Should We Gather?
Light in the Darkness
Friends are gifts from God. Remembering my friend…
Questions Leaders are Asking: And my quick one-liner answers
In Regards to Mission in N. America: We Need A New Kind of Leader
Just Another Program? Is “Missional” Doomed?
Just One Thing? Is it possible to find a way to balance our interests?