George Barna and I Reflect on the Last Four Years Since PAGAN CHRISTIANITY. Click here to read the complete interview.

Today I read an article that caught my eye: More congregations turn to Facebook, Web, high-tech outreach. This article, and the video above, highlights how churches like Christ Fellowship in McKinney, TX, are using the Internet and High Tech to reach out to the community.

I am a Generation X guy, and our family was an…

Hi guys. I am looking for a website address that might be of interest to spiritual seekers, particularly those with a weak church background. Which of the following do you think would be best?

www.SeekingGodNow.com

www.SeekingSpiritually.com…

REACH MORE PEOPLE BY SOWING BROADLY

If you want to have a ministry that is consistently growing and reaching new people you will need to sow broadly with the good works and good news of Jesus.

The Example of Jesus

Jesus started his ministry by sowing…

I don’t know that I could be called a naturally generous person.  Maybe kind, but not always generous.  However, over the years, there have been many people who have been extremely generous toward me.  One family heard that my wife and I had moved to a new city to plant a church and sent a $2500 check in the mail.  They hardly knew us.  They had no idea that we desperately needed help paying some major bills that at that time.

I think God has placed generous people in my path to wake…

Hello Missional Outreach Network members! I hope that everyone is gearing up for Easter--but that you have been preparing throughout the year by going to the unchurched and to people in your community. 

We have had a number of people join MON this week. Today I wanted to highlight missional church planter and author John Richardson. John has recently written a book called "ReGifting God's Love and Money" (see below). It tells the story of how his church was…

On Easter Sunday some two thousand years ago, the disciples were depressed. They had seen their Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ--their fearless leader--be crucified. In fact, two disciples that were on the way to Emmaus described their downcast position to a stranger that they encountered along the road.

They said that Jesus of Nazareth “19b was a prophet, powerful in word and deed before God and all the people. 20 The chief priests and our rulers handed him over to be…

What is the goal of the effective communicator ~ provocation! It is to challenge the status quo of groupthink. It is to call into question the tribal norms. To provoke is "to arouse to a feeling or action, to stir up purposely, to provide the needed stimulus."The effective communicator challenges our paradigm, stirs emotions, stimulating us to do something about what we have heard.

Think of a speech that…

This coming Sunday, I will be speaking on “Experiencing the Passion of Jesus. Wikipedia gives this definition of passion:

“Passion (from the Ancient Greek verb paskho meaning to suffer) is a term applied to a very strong feeling about a person or thing. Passion is an intense emotion compelling feeling, enthusiasm, or desire for something. The term is also often applied to a lively or eager interest in or admiration for a proposal, cause, or activity or love - to a feeling of…

Church announcements are often ignored and easily forgotten. Here is a great example from Saddleback church on how to do announcements--on video! It is clear, adds music, interesting "b-roll" video, pictures, website addresses (including a visual how-to), and more. Great for this video and visual age--and it can be passed on virally to Facebook,…

 When we are born again, we change our citizenship: from a kingdom of darkness to a kingdom of light. Paul tells us "our citizenship is in heaven" (Philippians 3:20 ESV). It is from this new kingdom that we are sent as representatives, or ambassadors if you will, to the micro-cultures where we find our selves living.

A quick glance at some of the facts about ambassadors will give us some insights regarding how we are to live as representatives of our King. According to…

One generation will praise your deeds to the next. Each generation will talk about your mighty acts. Ps 145:4 GOD'S WORD translation



So recently, while sitting at Starbucks, I took some time to really listen to the music of Jesus Culture. I have heard of them and even caught snippets of their music, but never really stopped to…

Grace.

Giving people good things when they do not deserve. Giving people mercy instead of justice. Letting murderers, thieves, and liars into the kingdom of heaven. Forgiving the same act over and over.

It is scandalous.

If we were to run our court system, our judicial system, like God does, we would not put up with it. We want liars to…

Class Presentations : This blog link provides my class presentations and comments on "Experiencing the Heart of Jesus."  You may make comments/ and or ask questions and join the discussion.  

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‎2012 Great Spring/Summer Volunteer/Missions Placements Opportunities in Sports Ministry and Evangelism. Join us in our Evangelism Sports Clinics and Church Youth Leaders Training Seminars on Sports Ministry as a Great Tool for Evangelism & Church Planting, for details drop us an email at sportsoutreach@aymu.org or visit our sports Ministry Photo Album at…

JOIN US 2012: Working with Churches on HIV/AIDS Comprehensive Service Delivery in Uganda, for details visit our project outreaches photo albums at http://is.gd/PKyY7l

This includes:-

1. Counseling & Testing

2. Care & Support of Orphans

3. Community Based Care & Support of People Living With AIDS

4. Spiritual Support e.g. Prayer &…

Here are the posts in order of most views in 2011 (some were written before 2011, but they received major traffic last year so they made the list).…