May 2010
1 post
“Everyone has their own version of the ‘gospel’ story: creation – who I am or who...”
– Sharing the gospel « Tim Chester
November 2009
1 post
“If Jesus could rise from the dead, we can at least rise from our bed, get off...”
– A Jesus Manifesto
September 2009
1 post
“The task of preaching is to proclaim truth. It is the moment that brings the...”
– Reclaiming the Mission » IF I JUST PREACH A GOOD SERMON- THEY WILL COME: Three Dying Myths (of Christendom) About Preaching
August 2009
1 post
“Vision is a clear mental picture of what could be, fueled by the conviction that...”
– Visioneering by Andy Stanley
June 2009
2 posts
“Grant, O God, that we may never listen to any teaching which would encourage us...”
– http://missionalchurchnetwork.com/praying-with-william-barclay/
“The role of the pastor is to keep the perceptions about God clean… We...”
– Non-verbatim quote from Eugene Peterson in an interview from 2007
March 2009
1 post
“Often the main limitation to church planting is a failure of imagination. [p92]”
– Total Church
February 2009
2 posts
“The gospel is good news: a message to be proclaimed, a truth to be taught, a...”
– Total Church
“America’s Spiritual Weakness
“The great weakness of North American...”
– The Gospel-Driven Church: America’s Spiritual Weakness
January 2009
2 posts
“The work, for example, of engaging with the sick, the grieving and the dying, as...”
– Building Missionary Congregations « Missional Church Network
“So after worship next weekend, listen to yourself and see whether you are...”
– Is your faith in your conversations?
December 2008
5 posts
“we need leaders with the capacity to cultivate an environment that releases the...”
– The Missional Leader: Equipping Your Church To Reach A Changing World by Alan Roxburgh and Fred Romanuk quoted by Brad Brisco at The Missional Leader
“Spiritual depth and maturity do not come without consistent effort.”
– Experiencing God Day-by-Day, Blackaby & Blackaby
“One of the greatest sins in the church is that we have said it’s okay to...”
– Noted down from a video conversation on Ed Stetzer’s blog
“The gospel is the key. If you don’t have a deep grasp on the gospel of...”
– Effective ministry in a Changing Culture: An Interview with Tim Keller - Darryl’s Blog
Mealtime Habits of the Messiah
The modern view of the kingdom as kingship renders Christianity as basically an individual thing with community implications. But if kingdom really means kingdom, then community is integral, rather than a tacked-on option.
November 2008
4 posts
Is this church?
Here’s a quick thought about the church:
We shouldn’t confuse establishing and building our personal relationship with God with what constitutes church.
I’m just thinking about what is church and this thought came to mind.
“The operational principles of the corporation give it a highly anit-social...”
– From “The Corporation”, quoted in Michael Frost’s “Exiles”
“the Church exists for no other purpose but to draw men to Christ”
– CS Lewis
“Budgets unmask deeply held views and values.”
– Biil Hybels at the Leadership Day
October 2008
10 posts
“Hospitality, rather than being something you achieve, is something you enter. It...”
– Radical Hospitality: Benedict’s Way of Love, Daniel Homan & Lonni Collins Pratt, quoted on:
Radical Hospitality : Missional Order
What is my purpose
It’s interesting to note that Paul is very clear about his purpose. So clear in fact that when he writes to Timothy he is able to say to him, “You know how I lived, you know my purpose…”
The question is: Do we know our purpose?
“Our job is not to transform people into Christians nor to convict them of their...”
– Experiencing God Day-by-Day
“Prayer for the current financial situation The Church of England put a...”
– Madonna, Tesco, Prayer and Unemployment – Diversity latest
“The one thing we most urgently need in Western Christendom is a deeper knowledge...”
– A Call to Spiritual Reformation by DA Carson
“If you want your leadership to matter, lead in the things that matter to God.”
– Gary Haugen at the GLS 2008
Defining the life of a Christian?
From Bill Hybels at the GLS 2008
His [God] purpose in his strength for his glory.
“To reach the people no one else is reaching, you will have to do things no one...”
– Craig Groeschel at the Global Leadership Summitt 2008
“… he [the postmodern person], doesn’t sense a need for God to...”
– The Provocative Church
“Walk This Way 31st January 2009, King’s College, London
In the church we...”
– Walk This Way « Events « Spring Harvest Web Site
September 2008
18 posts
“What Does It Mean to Deny Yourself? by Michael Mckinley From John Stott’s...”
– Church Matters: The 9Marks Blog
“It never seemed to bother Jesus if his reputation was at stake when it came to...”
– Outreach and Reputation Risking « Kingdom Living
The Jesus of Suburbia « Missional Church Network →
Some piercing questions that every leader and every Christian should be asking.
Dark Matter in the gym
I sometimes wonder about the nature of conversations I have at the gym. Today I got involved in a conversation about the origins of the universe and the concept of dark matter.
Clearly I need to brush up on my cosmology!
On the other hand where else can I hang out and find myself pondering these things and wondering what faith has to say to the big questions of the universe and to my friends...
“And then, this thought: I can do this. I can set aside the weight of unfinished...”
– Redeemed Time, Lightened Burdens | LeadershipJournal.net
“I have been thinking a lot about two of Jesus’ agricultural metaphors...”
– Redeemed Time, Lightened Burdens | LeadershipJournal.net
Blogger Widget
Using Blidget I’ve built a widget to add my Tumblog to my main Blog
“Flowing Streams (Zondervan) is a wonderful new memoir by Stuart Briscoe, a...”
– Preaching Now email newsletter
“When we have no impressive buildings and no swollen budgets to sustain our work,...”
– Exiles
Blogger seems to be confused
Blogger appears to think it’s yesterday… Funny because yesterday it thought it was the day before that!
Swurl test
I’ve tried deleting my Twitter stream and then adding it again, but it still doesn’t show up.
Not all there
I’m having a few problems with Swurl. It doesn’t appear to be updating my Twitter staus anymore… perhaps it’s too early in the day!
Pirate Day
Arr me hearties, it’s talk like a pirate day so it is.
Testing the Tumblr dashboard widget from Tumblr
Tumbling from the MacBook
“In an alliterated sense, missional living is an incarnational (being the...”
– Ed Stetzer
Testing Tumblr widget
If it works, then this is a successful widget test!
Why?
Why, when you think you’ve just done the right thing, someone tells you it was the wrong thing?