Truly Local: Church as the Soul of the City
Belonging means different things to different people. The church as the soul of the city becomes a personal homecoming, bustling into a bar, keyboard under my arm, for a jazz gig with local musicians.
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Mark Glanville
Jazz by its nature as a traditioned, improvised, nuanced, intelligent, conversational art form, is an evocative metaphor for the church in post-Christendom.
Outreach Resources of the Year: Church
Here you will discover valuable tools that belong on your bookshelf. You will reach for them time and again as they enhance your effectiveness in ministry through the years.
A Prophet Is Not a Prophecy Is Not Prediction of the Future
The prophets claim more, and the people credited them with more than just astute human discernment. This article argues that prophecy is not prediction, reframing how we read prophetic messages today.
John H. Walton
Whatever authority the prophetic words held for the ancient audience they also hold for us.
Dying to Live: Church Revitalization
The community outside the church's walls needs a Bible-teaching church as much as the church needs a community that is invested in what it offers, a path to church revitalization.
David Kinnaman: Living Out the Gospel in Digital Babylon
The promise of Jesus is for this life and the life to come. There’s an opportunity that we have in this moment of spiritual openness that Jesus is well-regarded and well-liked and he seems to be beckoning people.
God’s Good Created Order
How is God's good created order reconciled with the Jesus of powerlessness, mercy, and forgiveness?
Dhati Lewis: Creating Space for Change in Your Community
I think if we're going to make disciples in the 21st century in a polarizing time, we've got to recapture the art of hospitality. Because hospitality is where we are able to make an enemy a friend.
Robert F. Cochran Jr.
The great social good that lawyers do is to uphold the rule of law.