Church and Kingdom
Tim Keller, Young Leaders, and the Mission of the Church
A vigorous conversation is happening today around the question, “What is the mission...
Contrasting Kingdom Leaders and Church Leaders
There is presently a revolution taking place among those on the leading edge of...
Pastors visit your people at work
During my past 4 years as a pastor in the Bay Area I quickly discovered that one...
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Kingdom of God
From church planting success to genocide
In just 100 years, this country went from ‘unreached’ to ‘churched’, with...
Dont say ‘The Bible says So’
I want to say from the outset that I believe in biblical inerrancy, the sufficiency...
Why I preach the Kingdom
By “kingdom” I mean the rule of God over all creation. This includes understanding...
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Community transformation
What Steve Jobs Taught Us About Beauty
My friends know that, for good or ill, I am neither technically oriented nor have much appreciation of pop music. Yet I was very interested when a friend recently showed me a tribute to Steve Jobs from Bono. I do know that Apple computer owners from the very beginning have loved their machines and were loyal to the brand. Most, perhaps all, of my artist... [Read more of this article]
Only God Transforms; Only God Deserves the Glory
“Transformation” is a current hot topic in the church and in missiological circles. In general Christian usage, the concept reflects a movement from darkness to light – from individual and societal brokenness caused by sin toward the healing of that brokenness. This healing expresses itself in the relative presence of God’s Shalom – relative... [Read more of this article]
The Ideas we inherit – and the things we are passing on
Stalin famously said ‘ideas are more powerful than guns’. Ideas change our thinking and as our thinking changes, so does our behavior and our actions. Recently I have been looking back at times in history when business and mission have been connected. Although the term ‘business as mission’ is a fairly new one, there have been numerous points... [Read more of this article]
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