How to Use Greek and Hebrew Fonts When Blogging

Tyndale has a nice set of Unicode fonts that you can download with instructions at this link. This converts your keyboard into having Greek and Hebrew fonts. There is a little keyboard icon next to the microphone icon on that thin blue bar in windows. I keep mine to the left hand side and auto [...]

How to Choose and Tell the Right Story

There is something very basic and drawing about hearing a good story. The Bible is filled with story after story because life at its most basic level is broken down into a series of past events that are told and retold in each generation. Often the things that are best remembered about a sermon or [...]

Small Group Lesson Downloads Cross 1000 Mark

I am really excited to say that there have been over 1000 small group lesson downloads here at Kingdom Living. That probably has something to do with showing up in the top ten on google under both “Small group lessons” and “Free Small Group Lessons” and only one step away from making it ahead of [...]

20 and 30s Ministry is Growing

At a time when our ministry could being slowing up a bit in anticipation of a new child in October things are going faster than ever. Seeds were planted months ago that are now coming to fruition and ministry is being multiplied as leadership roles are being assigned, things are being delegated, and our 20 [...]

Wake Up Call on Evangelism

I am starting to see a parallel between the last 100+ years of evangelism and Acts 1:8. In Acts 1:8 Jesus tells his disciples that they will be witnesses in Jerusalem - Judea - Samaria - and the ends of the earth. The last 100 or so years of church growth has been a lot [...]

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 [...]

Dan Kimball’s Emerging Church

I have been reading up on the Emerging/Emergent church a little because I am invested in understanding and reaching out to people who have grown up with a postmodern perspective. Kimball splits this book into two halves - the first half is theoretical to help the reader understand the underlying cultural concepts that are a [...]

Church Pirates

Out of Ur’s cartoon this morning reminded me of my friend Brian McCullough. On a trip to Honduras Brian mentioned that some songs we sing remind him of pirate drinking songs. The main song he would sing was “My Eyes are Dry.” I nearly laughed out loud at this cartoon. Here is the link.

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 [...]