Three New Missional Realities Churches Must Face
Churches genuinely seeking to reach people with the gospel must constantly evaluate the cultural climate in which they live.
14 Ways to Use Seedbed’s Watchnight Service
There’s nothing quite like tearing off the last page of a calendar and turning to a new year. It brings a clean slate, offering...
Six Major Shifts Affecting Church Decline in the US
The Christendom model as we know it, our dominant Western version of the faith, is disintegrating.
The First Stage in Planting Fresh Expressions of Church Is Listening
Once we have listened to God and our community, this moves us into the loving and serving stage of a fresh expression.
The Deepest Story in the World Is the Christian Story
Jesus is a blended ecology, the life of heaven and mud-stuff. The church is his blended ecology, a colony of heaven, in, with, for, and among a sin-marred valley.
Five Ways to Future-fit Your Church
Futurefitting is about restructuring the local church to reflect the diverse singularity of the triune God for the purpose of local mission.
The Work of Local Churches: Cultivating, Seeding, and Grafting
The church is called to profusely and generatively cast the seeds of God’s love into the world.
The Suffering, Advancing Church
Our suffering purges and cleanses us. Our advance extends the rule and reign of Christ.
The Holy Spirit and Leadership: Seven Biblical and Theological Observations
Not every Spirit-empowered leader will look the same way, but there are some principles that can be observed about how the Holy Spirit empowers leaders.
Free Sermon Outline for the First Sunday of Lent
Lent is the 40-day period leading up to Easter. Here is a free sermon outline for the first Sunday of Lent.
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