J.R. Woodward Engages With Shrink at the V3 Blog Today
I am excited to see that J.R. Woodward at V3 Church Planting Movement is engaging with Shrink on his blog today. You can read the full article at his site. J.R. is crashing together themes from Shrink,...
View ArticleSneak Peek at the Missional Leadership & Discipleship Course Next Semester at...
The mission of God is unmanageable. This is where the conversation about missional leadership begins. When it comes to the kingdom of God, we cannot control outcomes with even the most ingenious...
View ArticleSabermetrics and John the Baptist: A Sermon for Advent
In 1971 a Lawrence man named Bill James was the last person from the state of Kansas to be sent to fight in Vietnam. He spent 2 years overseas then came back to Lawrence to finish college at KU. By...
View ArticleIs Church Membership Still Relevant?
In a world in which a premium is placed on having what we want, when we want it… In a society in which we our constantly told that every need can be met, and every problem can be solved… In a culture...
View ArticleOn the Importance of Disappointing Your Congregation: Now up at HuffPo
A version of the recent post “On the Importance of Disappointing Your Congregation” is now up at The Huffington Post. I have been grateful as I watch the numbers grow on the original post here at...
View ArticleWhy Do I Write All These Sad Songs?
“What came first: the music or the misery?” – Nick Hornby I cut my vocational teeth as a musician, part of the band Satellite Soul who was signed to Ardent/Forefront. Where label-mates like Skillet,...
View ArticleYou’ll Spend a Third of your Life Working: What if You Could Make It Better?
Adults who are employed full time work an average of forty-seven hours a week, nearly 2,500 hours a year — that’s over 100 full days. We’ll spend a third of our lifetime working. How do we choose a...
View ArticleNew Podcast: Becoming Brueggemann — Thoughts on Sabbath Keeping
Walter Brueggemann knows a thing or two about Sabbath keeping. As one of the preeminent Old Testament scholars of the last 50 years, he’s forgotten more about Sabbath, and how the practice functioned...
View ArticleWhat God is Not: An Apophatic Account of the Divine
My professional life exists at the intersection of creativity, God, and the church; which means my career has been made by trying to describe the indescribable. I work with words–whether with songs or...
View ArticleImmigration Confrontation: When Jesus Doesn’t Have Your Back
The central confession of the Christian faith is: Jesus is Lord. We don’t really use the language of “lords” anymore, but the phrase just means the Christian is supposed to live in obedience to Christ,...
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