The session at the City Reformed decided to give Matt and I each an opportunity to go to one conference this year.
Up until about a month ago I was planning on going to the Gospel Coalition conference.
Its held once every two years, and features pretty much every church guy that I would want [...]
Mark Driscoll recently traveled to England to speak about the importance of church planting. The lectures can be found here.
At one point Mark, a brother whom I greatly respect, talked about when a “number one” Pastor should step down. His argument, there are some guys who are really, as he puts it, “number two” [...]
Is Mark Driscoll right?
Do men care about church?
Should men care about church?
Do we, as the church, target the audience before us which statistically is more female( I’ve heard 60%)?
Do we find ways to make sure that men know that Jesus was a man, the ultimate man, a man, that every girl should want to marry, [...]
Whats it going to take to see people being loved?
Whats it going to take to see people finding homes?
Artists finding the Creator?
Junkies finding the Physician?
Whats it going to take to see orphans finding the Father?
Whats it going to take to see neighbors become friends?
Friends becoming family?
Whats it going to take to see,
Blighted brick and glass [...]
The vigorous, continual planting of new congregations is the single most crucial strategy for 1) the numerical growth of the Body of Christ in any city, and 2) the continual corporate renewal and revival of the existing churches in a city. Nothing else–not crusades, outreach programs, para-church ministries, growing mega-churches, congregational consulting, nor church [...]
Redeemer has recently(July) put up a video about their hopes for buildings in the next few year.
You can find the video here.
So this is my first year where I will continue to be working in a church both through the summer and the fall.
Alot of exciting things are happening at City Reformed.
We had a great turn out our first sunday back with students. The total attendance was somewhere around 150, which I think makes it [...]
I subscribe to the Church Marketing Lab flickr pool.
Yesterday one of the contributors posted this info on a forum:
“Target demographic of our church: people who have never been to church, or those burned out on church and haven’t been in a long time.
Ages: 20s & 30 somethings”
Then today another said his church was “pursuing the [...]
There seem to be two ways of perceiving the path to god, one more often spoken of and the other less known. One–there are many up the mountain and they all lead to the same God. Even if these paths are in fact in opposition to each other. Two–each path leads to a different gods, [...]
Goodmanson ask whether or not the Gospel is Awakening.
Mark Driscoll points to the signs of burnout.
David Fairchild talks about the Top 25 Church planting churches
And in other news:
CNN reports that the N-word was buried this week.