shapevine v.2

Yay! Shapevine is coming along nicely.  We have a big announcement to make within a few weeks.  We are going to be partnering with a major league publishing/magazine as their missional-oriented website.  But here is the latest version anyhow.  Check out the podule/e-learning system.

two new books by november…yay!

Just an update on the books I have been working on. They will both be published at the end of this year. Check this out…

The Forgotten Ways Handbook: This book is a very practical guide to applying The Forgotten Ways for activating missional movements and for remissionalizing the local church/organization. Each chapter contains [...]

The Trouble with Paris (pt. II)

Why Your Faith Does Not Work: (Excepts from The Trouble with Paris)
She looked like a girl who had it all. She was strikingly beautiful, confident, and hip. Half the guys in the room were looking at her, and all the girls in the room wanted to be her. She had ticked all the boxes: she [...]

The Trouble with Paris (pt. I)

Mission in the West can be difficult, it is new uncharted terrain. Two of the great errors that we can make as we birth and nurture missional-incarnational movements, is to assume that we understand and know the context in which we incarnate, and secondly assume that we and the people that we lead have not [...]

ideas on fire

Guys, I am at the Christian Associates staff meeting in Hungary (I am a member of the leadership team) and we have had Greg Boyd as our speaker.  I have to say that he is one of the finest Theologian-Prophet-Preachers I have heard.  His stuff on the Kingdom of God is superb.  I thought I [...]

update on rex miller

Just a note on Rex Miller’s new website. Rex is a respected leader to both the church and business world. His book, The Millennium Matrix, provides a great roadmap for navigating the digital era. The website is full of resources and is updated weekly. The daily blogs provide leading edge insights [...]

exilio: a great resource for missional discipleship

For all those Michael Frost fans, here is a great resource that he and Pete Horsely (Forge NSW director) have worked on. It is a video based guide to the book to be used with with groups. Easy to follow, it is truly an excellent resource for developing missional disciples and mindset. All [...]

dig in

Here is a little treasure trove of downloadable books /material on church planting, house churches, and leadership teams by the inimitable Dick Scroggins. Check under ‘books’ and ‘other resources.’

just to make a point

“The spontaneous expansion of the Church reduced to its element is a very simple thing. It asks for no elaborate organization, no large finances, no great numbers of paid missionaries. In its beginning it may be the work of one man and that of a man neither learned in the things of this [...]

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