SALVATION KITCHEN
Last Saturday, Duane hosted our weekly Journey gathering for the first time – at his Mom’s house. For Duane, his mom, his sister Cheryl and me, there was a special…
Read MoreTHE BATTLE TO PROTECT PRAYER
We are getting serious about the spiritual battle of guarding space to hear the voice of God in our gatherings. We have tried to say “let’s get together for prayer…
Read MoreA New Rhythm in the Journey: Public Narrative
Jesus has always attracted attention – and attenders; But he calls disciples. The Church that Jesus has been building is not made up of attenders, graduates, or the water baptized…but…
Read MoreRemembering when the Bread of Life was just a Bun in the oven.
In our own terms, the mother of Jesus would not have been following a doctor’s recommendations. She was travelling on a donkey from Nazareth to Bethlechem (meaning “house of bread),…
Read MoreMoses was a Relationship Guy
In Exodus 33 God told Moses that He didn’t dare go with the people any more into the promised land, because He would just be tempted to kill them all.…
Read MoreMISSION-LINK TOP TEN
TOP TEN DIFFERENCES BETWEEN ORGANIC CHURCH AND TRADITIONAL CHURCH DEFINED BY SPIRITUAL LIFE, NOT PROGRAMS “Organic” literally refers to that which is made up of living matter – in the…
Read MoreYURTLE THE TURTLE REVISITED
“I’m Yertle the Turtle! Oh, marvelous me!For I am the ruler of all that I see!”… So goes the refrain from from one of the stories that shaped my young…
Read MoreWHERE DO WE GET OUR “GLORY”
I have to admit, most of my life I had no idea what the word “glory” meant, except as used in phrases like “The Glory Days”, and “Go out in…
Read MoreANOTHER GOOD READ REFLECTING JESUS’ “UPSIDE DOWN” VISION FOR LEADERSHIP
As I was reading through the introduction and first two chapters of Danny Silk’s book, “Culture of Honor”, I was struck with how I was seeing concepts from “Messy Spirituality”,…
Read MoreDO I HAVE WHAT IT TAKES
Yesterday I was with my brother and fellow church planter talking about the challenge of what we do – and the question came up of how do we know if…
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