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Ambition: A29 Bootcamp

October 9, 2009

The next Acts 29 Bootcamp is going down November 10-11, 2009 in Louisville, KY at my second favorite church in North America, Sojourn Community Church. If you haven’t been to a bootcamp before, you need to go. If you have been to a bootcamp, you need to go. Thinking of planting a church? Go. Pastoring? Go. [...]

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Gospel-Driven Life

October 6, 2009

I just started in on Michael Horton’s new book, The Gospel-Driven Life: Being Good News People in a Bad News World. The Introduction was good enough to pull a few quotes from. Here’s one where Horton explains the gospel in terms of our story, and The Story. The Good News is not just a series [...]

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Field Trip

July 29, 2009

Today at lunch time I took Katherine (8) and Elias (5) our on a little field trip. We visited 3 local church buildings – all of which are very different from what they are used to: St. Mary’s (Catholic), First United Methodist, and First Lutheran. I wanted to expose them to these different church environments [...]

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Subtext Forum

March 12, 2009

Today I’m at the Subtext Forum (meeting at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School) where Ed Stetzer will speak to our second gathering about the church in the suburban context. Ed is a former professor of mine from seminary, has been a help to me over the years in numerous ways – and is a friend. If [...]

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Driscoll on Bible Study

February 23, 2009

Bible Study Magazine has a great story on Mark Driscoll, founder and Preaching pastor of Mars Hill Church in Seattle. The article focuses on Mark’s thoughts on Bible study and it’s worth a read. Mark believes that bible study should not only happen at Mars Hill, but that anywhere people are willing to listen and [...]

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Redeemer Orientation

February 3, 2009

This past Saturday I led a group of people through our first membership class (Redeemer Orientation) and I thought I’d share a little about why we have membership, why we continue to use the language of “membership,” and how the class is structured. We do church “membership” because we believe it is a healthy way [...]

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Weekend Review

February 1, 2009

The weekend is over and I’m looking forward to relaxing this evening, watching the Super Bowl. Sort of. I don’t even know who’s playing.  A red team and a black team. I think. Anyway, it was an enjoyable weekend. Here’s a recap. Join. On Saturday we had our first membership class, called Redeemer Orientation. 10 [...]

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