UPDATE: Joe Carter at Evangelical Outpost calls Caspian the best ever war movie made for kids. He likes it more than the book and the previous movie. Bob Beltz is a Narnia Geek. This is the back of car – the wheel cover was custom made for him. Bob is also a pastor of a…
Read MoreChurch Basement Road Show: A Rollin’ Gospel Revival
I dont know these guys . . . REALLY!!! “Taking a page out of the Billy Sunday playbook, the authors will spread the emergent message of a generous, hope-filled Christian faith in the style and cadence of the tent revival preachers of a hundred years ago. They plan to have fun with it, wearing frock…
Read MoreChurch of Scotland and Emerging Ministries Fund
“The Emerging Ministries Fund will be supporting projects that engage with people outside inherited formal structures and at grassroots. In many cases this may mean less of a dependence on buildings and getting people to ‘come to church’ and a greater emphasis on taking church to the people.” Source: Ekklesia Well done Church of Scotland!…
Read MoreA Century of Missional Thinking in the West
Mission used to be something our Western Christian countries did for the non-Western “heathen” lands that we called the Third World. Talking like that now will get your email boxed flamed. Times have changed. Now the global south and east has more Christians than we do. They even send their missionaries to our countries. Our…
Read MoreIraqi Christians
From the good people at DeMossNewsPond: Approximately 400,000 of Iraqi Christians have fled the country since 2003. Most of those who remain in Iraq are internally displaced. Check out Help Iraqi Christians and find out what to do. Technorati Tags: demoss, iraq
Read MorePost Charismatic?
“Many are Post-Charismatic. . . after 20 years, they would rather shoot themselves than sing another chorus.” Stuart Murray-Williams talking with us in Paris, 2003. Just picking up on yesterday’s post on The New Charismatics that Steve K started and trying to land it. If you watched the video on Steve’s site, you know what…
Read MoreZilok launches today – Rent anything
Gary Cage from Zilok just let me know that their big project in UK launches today. Its a peer-to-peer renting site. Reminds me of a church in Australia that had a rental ministry – members could donate lawn-mowers and trailers and whatever into a pool and the community could borrow them and return them. This…
Read MorePentecost Festival London
Things went really well last weekend in London for Pentecost Festival. They have some internships available for next year – you get free accommodation in London. Think about it! Pentecost in the news.
Read MoreBible App – A Bible Quiz
Bible App is a Bible verse quiz and its pretty good. But its really lonely here at the top. Anyone want to challenge me? UPDATE: Actually – its too easy. I am giving up because its nearly midnight and i am getting delirious. Technorati Tags: bible study tools
Read MoreChina Earthquake
Earthquake in China. I am been shooting up some prayers but thought a blog post would be in order. I found out about the earthquake through Twitter. So did a lot of other people. One blog reports that Twitter has now come of age. Once again, if you know worthy groups to donate to, or…
Read MoreSteve Knight on The New Charismatics
While the post-charismatic movement gathers steam, its interesting to see hyper-charismatic movements still popping up. HT: Steve Knight who is also a little befuddled by “The New Charismatics” and their spirit-drunken, moon-howling, slosh-till-u-drop “postmodern prophetic ministry”. Its not exactly Steve’s cup of tea either but he does point to some good outreach efforts by this…
Read MoreMissional Church: Where is the fruit?
The theme this week is missional church. I am kicking it off by pointing to a hot blog post from last week. David Fitch hosts a very important conversation, having picked up from Bro. Maynard. I wish it wasn’t so personal – ie – Mark Driscoll and mega church attractional model vs. emerging/missional/monastic/house-church model ala…
Read MorePentecost Poem: The Sound of Dust
Note: I updated this poem from when I wrote it in 2005 with a few changes and greater commitment to the rhythm and meter. I am writing it from the point of view of some older Jewish men sitting in a courtyard in Jerusalem that Pentecost morning, watching and listening to the chaotic events around…
Read MoreWhitsunday and Pentecost
“This day is called Wytsonday because the Holy Ghost brought wytte and wisdom into Christis disciples … and filled them full of ghostly wytte.” — In die Pentecostis Happy Whitsunday! In the UK, Pentecost is often referred to as Whitsunday which is a reference to the wisdom given to us by the Holy Spirit. I…
Read More1608 – Evangelical Union
This year marks 400 years since the Evangelical Union (also called the “Protestant Union”) was formed in Germany in 1608. It listed among its goals that “the council would be ecumenical and universal”. The council would have the task of determining which articles were fundamental and the test would be the Word of God. These…
Read MoreLee Behar and Fundraising
Conversations on the finer points of theology and emerging forms of church come and go . .. . but the subject of how to raise money for your ministry is a perennial issue. I didn't mention my good friend Lee Behar last week in my series on philanthropy, even though he was at PIGS, an…
Read MoreMicro-Philanthropy
– Peter Dietz has some good reflections on the Philanthropy 2.0 session (didn’t someone want to drop that buzz word this year?) at Council of Foundations this week. Good links and a video Related: TSK on Philanthropy, and Emerging Philanthropy Technorati Tags: COF2008, philanthropy, social enterprise
Read MoreGodTube raises $30 million
From a $300 script to $30 million raised in a short time, Mashable tells the GodTube story.
Read MoreKnow How 2 Go – The Commercials
Remember those commercials that my daughter Abigail went to Prague to shoot? They are about to hit American TV and the website is already up. KnowHow2Go.com/tough has the little videos with Abigail in it. [Mum] Watch out for the redhead and the little voice on the main commercial saying “Sign me up!” The larger website…
Read MorePIGS: The Other Foundations Conference
“Our philanthropy must be self-sacrificial, other-centred, and generously cooperative in contributing to a society in need . . . It’s all about giving it away to remind our society of the love the Father has for our world.” Mark Petersen, Bridgeway Foundation (Canada), blogging from PIGS. Sean Stannard-Stockton of Tactical Philanthropy has asked me for…
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