Study Guide Complete for 100% Natural Evangelism

For those who have requested the study guides I was working on for the 100% Natural Evangelism DVD series by Terry Rush, they are complete. Just let me know if you want them. I do ask that you have first purchased the DVD’s from Terry. I think I have emailed it to all who requested [...]

Churches of Christ and the Emerging Culture

As I read Dan Kimball’s book on the Emerging Church a few things stand out to me that I thought I would mention here:
1 - There is a cultural shift that is taking place and more people are unchurched in America. We are one of the largest mission fields in the world. Missionaries will tell [...]

Transition from Traditional Bible Class to Missional 20 and 30 Somethings

We continue to work to make our 20s and 30s group at Northwest something better. I for one tend to be someone who types a bunch of thoughts in a blog post about this or that but I don’t always include a lot of nuts and bolts of how to get something done. This is [...]

Church of Christ - Challenges of the Future

What I am about to type here I think has BIG implications for the future of the churches of Christ. If you are a part of our fellowship I hope you will read this and think about it and discuss it with an eye toward the future and what we can do to really light [...]

Moving From Contemplating the Biblical Navel to Real Application

I am guilty of writing a bunch of thoughts, opinions, and various and sundry other ways of contemplating the biblical navel and end the discussion gaining little more than having thought about something a little more or with a slight nuance. How many of you feel your life has never been the same since reading [...]

From Complex to Simple

There is a move in churches from the complex to the simple. We have spent so many years discussing fine tuned doctrines and what makes this church distinctive from that church. It seems to me that many churches and Christians are moving from the complex web of doctrines to a more simple approach to Christianity [...]

Putting God in the Box of Logic

I think we have all figured out by now that you cannot put God in a box. Have you ever thought about the fact that out of the 13 or so billion people who have ever lived over thousands and thousands of years of human history less than 1 billion of them were influenced by [...]

N.T. Wright on Attempting to Restore New Testament Christianity

“Many writers…have seen the religious experience of the early Christians…as the normative element within Christianity. This has the apparent advantage that it enables one to conduct the ’scientific’, supposedly ‘objective’ study of early Christian religion and theology, with the knowledge that when one has found them one is in touch with the real model of [...]

U2 Gets to Sing with George Pendergrass

U2 was so lucky to get to perform with George Pendergrass who used to sing with Acappella. You would be hard pressed to meet a nicer man than George Pendergrass. Bono joins the ranks of those lucky enough to get to sing with such a talented singer. This is I Still Haven’t Found What I’m [...]

Which Post Amazes You More?

Which of these makes your jaw drop faster? The potential of Keith Lancaster driving an Ariel Atom and the video of the car’s performance or Trey Morgan’s List of 7 Crazy Things He Has Seen in Church?
I can’t get over either one! Thanks to both of them for sharing.