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A book that I recommend for church leaders to go through together is Missional Renaissance: Changing the Scorecard for the Church by Reggie McNeal. Reggie McNeal is a part of Leadership Network and is a nationally known missional leader. I also have an affection for him as one of my teachers in the D.Min. program at Fuller Theological Seminary.

I owe a lot of my ideas for the practical outworkings of missional theology to Reggie. (He also is a… Continue

Does anyone have any experience with an ESL course at your church?

What material did you use? How did you set it up?

I have experience with Let's Start Talking and the Friendspeak program but we are looking at something with a different teacher/student ratio at this point. Maybe you have some thoughts on that.

I have asked some people but no one has gotten back with me so I thought maybe someone out here might be able to help.

Thanks.

Darin

This week Newsweek came out with a front page article entitled "The End of Christian America."

This article was prompted by the recent religious survey of Americans that we recently reported on. This survey showed that the percentage of Americans that identified themselves as having no religion has doubled in the last decade to 15% of the US population. This is but one of many signs pointing to the… Continue

On Sunday, we had an "Easter Eggstravaganza." We invited the community to join us for an Easter egg hunt, a meal, a petting zoo, and a bounce gym. We had a great turnout, with numerous people from the community. I met guests that our members had invited, and one woman from the McKinney paper advertisement.



Becki and I were able to engage guests in conversationa and invite them out to Easter and our new sermon series: "The Office: Spirituality at Work." We had our newly printed invite… Continue

Chat with Oakland A's Brad Ziegler



[The following is on ESPN.com The website is http://proxy.espn.go.com/chat/chatESPN?event_id=25774

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Welcome to The Show! On Friday, we'll have a special guest coming to SportsNation when Oakland A's closer Brad Ziegler stops by to chat.



Ziegler stormed on to the MLB scene last year, when he set the record for most scoreless innings… Continue