I have been thinking a lot lately (in between worrying about the Twins) about Community Group in the Fall. We are going to orient this group to not just be a group that is praying and supporting the formation of a core group for our church plant, but also serving Community of Hope by helping [...]
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I think I am glad that December is finally over. It seemed like there was so much that needed to be done before the end of the year. Just as things started to end something would come up, like our sudden trip to Edmonton to see Shane’s grandfather. The Monday before I had finished teaching [...]
I was reading another few pages from Planting Missional Churches by Ed Stetzer this morning, and in the early going he rides the importance of cultural exegesis hard. I was already familiar with the concept as I just took a course this spring on “Christianity and Culture” from Bruce Guenther over at ACTS (awesome course [...]
I’ve been reading Ed Stetzer’s Planting New Churches in a Postmodern Age lately. It is beastly-long as compared to the quick read that Launch was. I was trying to catch some rays and darken the skin a little before we head to Florida at the end of the month for a little iGo action and [...]
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I’ll say this right up front, while I am calling this a book review, it is more of a reflection on the book in light of my church planting experience so far, and an attempt to digest what I learned to aid in looking forward to how we will do things differently. I picked this [...]
In addition to the huge workload I have this summer just for the church, I have this paper to write. I am completing a graduation essay to attain my Master’s of Arts in Christian Studies from ACTS Seminaries at Trinity Western University. My chosen area of study is church planting in resort communities. I am [...]
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