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Skye Jethani interviews James H. Gilmore I first discovered Jim Gilmore when his book, The Experience Economy , was handed to me by a nationally known church consultant in 2002. If I wanted my church to grow, he explained, I had to employ the marketplace strategies in Gilmore's book. Years later I wrote about my encounter with the church consultant in my first book, The Divine Commodity , and how I believed his advice was misguided. I specifically mentioned the danger of applying Gilmore's book to the church.
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Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative is one you should add to your library. It's a great little kick in the pants for creative types. And even if your title doesn't include designer, writer or creative something, these words still apply.Stuff Christians Like – Jon Acuff | Musings by Jon Acuff
I’ve been very clear over the years about my desire to have my own signature cologne. Long before Diddy released his, I had plans to become a perfume professional or titan of scent, if you will. On May 22, 2008 I wrote on this blog, “If I get rich and famous, please know that I will create a cologne and perfume that smell like old hymnals.
A couple of months ago, I participated in a little conference here in PDX, co-sponsored by the Ecclesia Network and North West Church Planters. It was called Rain and Shine, and the point was to draw together, for two days, a group of church planters who would talk about the brightest and darkest moments they had experienced in Church planting. Everyone got 14 minutes to speak.
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I often think that God must have had me in His thoughts when He made my husband, AJ. The way He merged our lives together is a tangible reminder that He loves us, cares for us and wants the best for us. I did not grow up in a Christian home, and I had casually dated several guys through my high school years, but each relationship left me unfulfilled and looking for another guy to hang out with.Challies Dot Com | Informing the Reforming
I had tried reading Marilynne Robinson’s Gilead at least three or four times, but without success, which is to say, without completing it. I would read twenty pages, or even eighty, and eventually put the book aside and forget to return to it. Gilead is wonderfully written, so it is not that I was trying to slog through dense or poorly-written text. Far from it! It is for good reason that this book received the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for fiction.
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February 1, 2012 This sermon is a good illustration of the difference between what Ed Stetzer calls an “aspirational charismatic” and one who pursues God for all he has for us today. I urge you to watch it, and be stirred to enjoy what Jesus has purchased for us. Downloads are available on the Jubilee site. Christians in the West are often quite good at trusting in God as our rock.Acts 29 Network: Seattle, WA > Homepage
May 11, 2012 One of the most humbling things to consider as we hear from our planters is how God is sanctifying them and saving others through the ministry God has entrusted to them. I want to frequently introduce you to guys in the network and what God is accomplishing in them and through them. This week it's Jonathan Needham pastor at Coram Deo in Bremerton which is in the Tacoma area of Washington state. It was Easter morning. We were getting ready to celebrate at our local performing arts theater.
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“I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith.” [2 Timothy 4:7] Writing to Timothy, the Apostle Paul was able to look back on his ministry and declare satisfaction that he had finished his course. Paul would be the first to insist that his entire ministry was evidence of the grace and mercy of God, but he was assured that, by grace, he had finished his race.As of this writing, I’m laying flat on my back, laptop on my stomach, with a faint but distinctive tingly feeling in my right foot. This is not normal. I’m not an old guy with rheumatoid arthritis or anything. I can’t make weather predictions by my bum knee or anything like that.
The Church of No People | What sermon would a pastor preach…if no one showed up to church?
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In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains (#4599 in Strong’s Concordance) of the great deep broken up, and the windows (#699 in Strong’s Concordance) of heaven were opened (#6605 in Strong’s Concordance). Genesis 7:11 – traditional translation …Examination of the Hebrew word translated as “fountains” or “springs” shows it can also be translated as “sources.”I have been thinking about this post for quite a while now (i.e. years) . Most of these suggestions have Bible college or Seminary students in mind, but a great deal of it really applies to students in general or perhaps even Christians in general. I decided to wait a few months until after I graduated to post it on the blog. These thoughts are the fruit of my experience, and I hope that they will be helpful to you. I do not see this as being anywhere near complete, just a start. They are not in any particular order.
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Sometimes I hate being a man. Not that I want to be a woman, I quite like my gender. It’s just that being a man in America these days is to be a wimp. It doesn’t take long watching TV or movies to see what I mean. Men are dimwitted, useless, scratching, belching morons. The only things they understand are sports, beer, and leering at women.