From The Mustard Seed Conspiracy by Tom Sine:
 ”How specifically can an understanding of God’s intentions for the future lend direction to us in the church as we face the challenges of the next two decades?  For one thing, it can enable us to see ourselves and our mission more wholistically, to abandon the fruitless discussions […]

What if a group of business leaders that are followers of Christ pooled their money together to create a Kingdom Investment Group?  The point of this group would be to find a large local church facility and put together an offer to buy it. 
This facility would have to be siginificant enough to handle large events […]

Keep a lookout for a new campaign from World Vision that will help kids in the most vulnerable situations get much needed help.  This will be a significant appeal to help the world’s most poor, sick, abandoned and exploited children.  These are the kids without any safety nets, at all. 
 With World Vision, you’ll be saving children […]

Vox Sacra, a Seattle-based fashion designer, has taken the “cheesy” out of “Christian” clothing.  If this company takes hold, I only hope that the days of Christian shirts that mimic the Budweiser logo with some trite spiritual message slipping into irrelevance.  I still cringe at calling anything “Christian this or that”. 
 I think it was C.S. […]

your beefs about the Church.  Forget about your hangups with leaders that have burned you.  Forget incompetence, foolishness, legalism and lack of grace.  Forget, for just one moment, that the whole big mess of human-infused church blows it time after time.   And yet God uses it, in spite of ourselves.
 And remember your own fallow heart, […]

“If I am honest, I’m rebelling against my own indifference. I am rebelling against the idea that the world is the way the world is and there’s not a damned thing I can do about it. So I’m trying to do a damned thing.”  Bono, from his 2001 Harvard Commencement Address 
Read the entire address…

Yet another Willow Creek Leadership Summit has ended.  Each time I go, I go with fear about continued corporate approaches to church.  But I always come away feeling blessed by the hearts of Bill Hybels and the various other speakers that share their hearts there.  And I learn a ton. 
At Hybels’ wrapup today, he reinforced […]

8000 people will die of AIDS in Africa.  Take 20 minutes of your time and check out One.org.  Find out what you MUST do to help.

 

My life has just been rent, by Bono at a leadership conference.  His call to me — even us – is a tough one.  We live in a time of plenty.  Abundance is prevalent.  But it is concentrated.  Many times not maliciously, or with ill intent.  90% of the world lives without — without food, without […]