Andrew Jones over at the Tall Skinny Kiwi as a great post on debt within the church, especially in regards to staff. He does well to highlight the restrictions which debt cause. The problem with this is that a lot of ministry graduates come out of seminary or university with a debt that some dear [...]

I have been listening to some audio of Mark Driscoll’s teaching at a leadership conference. They are very interesting and insightful. One of the great insights that he serves up in the introductory session, Christians are called to the city. He describes it as being upstream for culture, opposed to the suburbs & rural being [...]

Does anyone else get the Sunday Blues? Just about every week it happens to me. You could just about set your watch to it—I come home from church and before I even set my things down it has hit once again. Sometimes it comes on earlier, as early as even Friday afternoon. Those could also [...]

Here is another quote from N.T. Wright’s book Surprised by Hope which I have been reading and almost done with. [W]hen I visit churches that carefully abandoned all signs of professional worship from a former age—robed choirs, processions, organists, and the like—and then invented new forms of worship that demand just as much professionalism in [...]

Tim Keel {of Jacob’s Well in KC,MO} has recently posted on advent and what his church is doing to create a more conscious community about the religious and spiritual importances of this time of year. He shares about a great event they are doing this Friday. He wants to make it a time of {spiritual} [...]