Relighting the Lampstand: Slow Evangelism and the Mission of GOD
If we become enamored with building our lampstands but we have no flame of embodied love – then the world stays in darkness. As we relearn what it means to become rooted in one another’s lives and in the love of GOD which calls us out into our communities – the world will again have a witness…
Love Your Neighbor: Begin with Their Name
Those who claim to follow Jesus are not called to merely wave, but to love our neighbors. Love builds community for love springs from the being who is communal love: the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit…
When All Else Fails Try Jesus
Maybe this could be a message to ourselves as the Church – “When All Else Fails Try Jesus’- when all our programs and methodologies for marketing and growing our churches has failed – maybe we will again return to simply learning and living as disciples of Jesus…
The Permanent Revolution by Alan Hirsch and Tim Catchim (Book Review)
If you have been well-versed in the missional conversation this book will continue to expand your conception of the nature of the church and how to put feet to it. If you are just getting your feet wet in the missional conversation this book will blow your mind and then put it all back together again…
Paul Sparks: Salvation In The Neighborhood and the Great Reversal (Videos)
In these videos Alter Video Magazine and The Work of the People interviews Paul Sparks as he talks about how local living and learning to do life together is intimately related to spreading the Gospel of GOD’s upside down kingdom…
Shalom: An Invitation to Whole-Life Christian Faith
In the book Tom and Christine Sine say: “At the center of GOD’s purpose for a people and a world is the word shalom…A Jewish friend explained that originally this greeting meant, “May you live in anticipation of the day when GOD makes all things whole again.”
Place Matters: The Parish Collective on Churches, Places, and Spaces (video)
I recently had the privilege of meeting Paul Sparks of the Parish Collective when he was visiting the East Coast….I looked up and saw Jeremiah 29:7, inscribed on the building, which says: “Seek the peace of the city where I have sent you, for in it’s welfare, you will find your welfare”…
Year of Plenty (book review)
Year of Plenty is an insightful, profound yet humorous narrative that provides a refreshing perspective on the intersection between Christian faith and issues of economy, environment, community, consumption, justice and sustainability…
Alan Hirsch: DNA of Gospel Movements [VERGE Videos]
This is a powerful series of short videos featuring Alan Hirsch, missiologist, a key figure in the missional church movement and author of Untamed: Reactivating A Missional Form of Discipleship, The Forgotten Ways and other books. Be warned- you may start asking dangerous questions after watching these…
Englewood Review of Books: New Print Edition!
Our friend Chris Smith and his crew over at the Englewood Review of Books just launched their new print edition! A must have for serious Christian bookmongers…
