well looksee here

At last, we have the German translation of The Shaping of Things to Come. How exciting. Click on the image below for see purchase information if you are German-speaking. Sorry that it has taken so long.I hope that God will use it to build his church in German-speaking lands.

off to oz

Debs and I return home to Oz for about 3 weeks! A time to catchup with friends and family and to mix with our tribe, Forge. I love them tons and always look forward to being with them. Above is the event we will be attending with a few other missional nutcases [...]

jesus my center

As we come to Easter, we are reminded of the absolute place that Jesus has over our minds, hearts, lives, and imaginations. Listen to the ever-worshipful Lesslie Newbigin here:
That which is disclosed in Jesus Christ is the very character and will from which all that is proceeds. For the believer who, by the [...]

getting beyond ‘jesus is my boyfriend’ worship

Yes, at last! A worship leader who is recognizing the dangers of the over-romaticization (or is it the eroticization?) of worship. A very candid interview with Matt Redman…

church follows mission

By my reading of the Scriptures, even though it is a non-negotiable, ecclesiology is the most fluid of the central doctrines. The church is a dynamic cultural expression of the people of God in any given place. Worship style, social dynamics, liturgical expressions must the result from the process of contextualizing the gospel [...]

primal branding: displacing religion with products

Book review of book by Patrick Hanlon called Primal Branding: Create Zealots for your Brand, Your Company, and Your Future.  Reviewed by David Mays.

Hanlon has been a senior executive at some of the world’s most creative advertising agencies.  Hanlon says that a brand is a community of believers held together by seven assets that create [...]

living out-carnationally

By living incarnationally we not only model the pattern of humanity set up in the Incarnation but we also create space for mission to take place in organic ways. In this way mission becomes something that ‘fits’ seamlessly into the ordinary rhythms of life, friendships, and community and is thus thoroughly contextualized. Thus these ‘practices’ [...]

incarnation-al: being formed by the story

The Incarnation not only qualifies God’s acts in the world, it must also qualify ours. If God’s central way of reaching his world was to incarnate himself in Jesus, then our way of reaching the world should likewise be incarnational. To act incarnationally therefore will mean in part that in our mission to those [...]

incarnation: the god-dimension of mission

John 1:1-18 forms the central defining Scriptural text narrating to us of the marvelous coming of God into human history. But this text is far from the only one to probe this mystery.  All Christians acknowledge that In Jesus Christ God was fully present and that He moved into our neighborhood in an act of [...]

how you like?

I am in Portugal, just finished a great conference with Christian Associates (a church planting movement in Europe.  I am on leadership team) I am utterly wasted, and this is the first time I have been able to look over the new site.  What do you think?  There is a little more ironing out to [...]

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