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January 2012

January 27, 2012

Missional in Louisiana

From Wineskins, an interview by Fred Peatross of John Dobbs (who ministers ["preaches"] in Monroe...

January 19, 2012

Perry Noble Observation

From Christian Post: Is there more to say here? Like, If you are wondering if...

January 12, 2012

Mission vs. Mandate

I picked this post up from a pastor who gave me permission to run it...

October 2011

October 18, 2011

Missional is Not a Tame Lion 3

Michael Frost, in his new book, Road to Missional, The: Journey to the Center of...

October 07, 2011

Missional is not a Tame Lion 2

Amen to Michael Frost for his two big points about how evangelism operates today: When...

October 03, 2011

“Missional” is not a Tame Lion 1

Michael Frost, one of the "coiners" of the M-word (missional), is suggesting we might call...

August 2011

August 08, 2011

Mission, What is it?

What is the relationship between evangelism and social action? Some people today blend these two...

May 2011

May 02, 2011

Cape Town Commitment 1

I want to do a series on the The Cape Town Commitment: A Confession of...

February 2011

February 25, 2011

A Simple, Clear Witness

Arloa Sutter's book, The Invisible: What the Church Can Do to Find and Serve the...

February 11, 2011

Launching Missional Communities

"A Missional Community is a group of twenty to fifty people who have united, in...

February 04, 2011

Everyday Mission, Everyday People

If one more person writes another book that says we need to be missional I...

January 2011

January 17, 2011

Missional Families, Missional Moms

The word "missional" has become for some a softer version of the word "evangelism." But...

July 2010

July 28, 2010

Missional Small Groups

Here's an arresting line about small groups, and it is one that expresses both the...

January 2010

January 26, 2010

Science and the Evangelical Mission (RJS)

Last Friday David Opderbeck introduced Ken Wilson's essay Science and the Evangelical Mission in America....

December 2009

December 16, 2009

The Three Central Missional Conversations

Alan Roxburgh and M. Scott Boren are onto something: in their new book called Introducing...

December 15, 2009

Can Your Church Be Missional?

Alan Roxburgh and M. Scott Boren are onto something: in their new book called Introducing...

December 14, 2009

Mystery, Memory and Mission

Alan Roxburgh and M. Scott Boren are onto something: in their new book called Introducing...

December 11, 2009

Just Define Missional for Me

Alan Roxburgh and M. Scott Boren are onto something: in their new book called Introducing...

December 09, 2009

Not All Who Wander are Lost

Arguably, Darrell Guder's book (Missional Church: A Vision for the Sending of the Church in...

November 2009

November 23, 2009

Missional Mondays: Tony Stiff 4

The ecclesiological shift is found in the church renewing its missional identity in practice as well as...

November 16, 2009

Missional Mondays: Tony Stiff 3

The missiological shift like the situational shift of the missional church is filled with stark contrasts between how mission was...

November 09, 2009

Missional Mondays: Tony Stiff 2

Following the situational shift fresh reflection has been given to theology proper (ie the doctrine...

November 02, 2009

Missional Mondays: Tony Stiff

Tony Stiff is a graduate of Westminster seminary, a friend, and a solid young thinker...

July 2009

July 10, 2009

Friday is for Friends: “T”

This Friday is for Friends post is from our long-time blog friend, "T," the one...

July 03, 2009

Friday is for Friends: AHH

AHH has been reading and occasionally commenting on the Jesus Creed blog since Fall 2008. ...

June 2009

June 11, 2009

World Christianity and America 2

We don't get the issues (behind the book) on the table with descriptive clarity until...

October 2008

October 13, 2008

Missional at Biblical

Last Friday morning I flew out to Philadelphia to speak at Biblical Seminary. John Franke...

October 02, 2008

Our Missional God 20

We come to the end of Chris Wright's exceptional book, The Mission of God. The...

September 2008

September 30, 2008

Our Missional God 19

The last two chps of Chris Wright's excellent book, The Mission of God, concern the...

September 26, 2008

Our Missional God 18

The most neglected books in the Old Testament are the Wisdom books, and so it...