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• Bible Study September 7, 2010
  I'm just about finished with Kelly Minter's latest study on Ruth. I need some suggestions for a new one. What's the best Bible study you've done? Any recommendations? Thanks!PS...I'm driving again! Sweet freedom!!!!Featured on newchurches.com […]
• God Needs Men to Plant Churches September 7, 2010
  Darrin Patrick, Vice President of the Acts 29 Network and a veteran church planter himself, is one of the most qualified men on the planet to write this book. It is written for Church Planters, but will challenge any man (really any person) to follow Christ with everything he's got. This book is a call for God's men to rise to their calling to be t […]
• Get Registered! September 7, 2010
  We're only a little more than a month away from the event we're doing for church planters called Vault. I think it's going to really help church planters, and so I'm psyched.People are registering: One church planting organization is using it as part of their church planters bootcamp. Several leaders from the church planting world are com […]
• The Skinny on Hipster Christianity September 6, 2010
  There's a video on Facebook making the rounds called Hipster Church Movement: The Lisbon - New Delhi Connection.Its uncool and unhip in a hilarious way. Especially the dancing cat and the WWJD t-shirt. The video is made my two good friends of mine and I know their stories quite well so here is a quick explanation. They are responding in part to a conver […]
• Monday is for Missiology: Hiebert on Mission and the Kingdom of God September 6, 2010
  I'm working on a new book on the Kingdom of God (out in 2011) and it's implications for living between the times in the "already" but "not yet." I ran across this from Paul Hiebert. Paul recently died and the church experienced a great loss. David Hesselgrave and I dedicated our new mission book, MissionShift, to Paul and Ralph […]
• Ed Stetzer on the Rise of Popularity in Church Planting September 5, 2010
  At the recent Advance the Church Conference in Raleigh, NC, I sat down with Ed Stetzer (Missiologist Extraordinaire) to talk about a number of topics. In part one of this conversation, we talk about his concerns and excitement about the recent rise in popularity of church planting. As always, Ed has good things to say. […]
• Meet a Church Planter | Joe Holland September 4, 2010
  Joe Holland | Lead pastor of Christ Covenant | Culpeper, VA Call to Plant I spent the first 6 years of ministry as an assistant in two different churches in Mississippi. Toward the end of those six years I started to get the church planting bug. I was being exposed to Acts29 resources—especially the preaching of Mark Driscoll. I was also attending the annual […]
• Church Planting in the 21st Century September 3, 2010
  by Alex EarlyFour Corner's Church Newnan, GA Church planting in the 21st Century is a bold task. Being a gospel-centered, innovative church planter implies that you are going to have to have some entrepreneurial aptitude. When I think of the terms “entrepreneurial aptitude” I don’t ever think of boring, vapid, mundane or lackadaisical people. Entreprene […]
• 5 Game Changers that didnt make my video for The Nines September 2, 2010
  On Sep 9 you can watch my video and ridicule it via Twitter at the Nines Online Conference. I chose just a single "game changer" in my ministry to focus on . . which one I will not reveal just yet. But there were many other game changers, strategic moves, decisions, mid-way corrections, that didn't make the cut. Here are some of them:1. In 199 […]
• Substance or Just Good Management? September 2, 2010
  By Brent Rood The emerging church movement is not as new as it used to be. As with every movement, it has reached a point in its trajectory where as it matures, the ideals of the movement have given way to the reality of the movement. Theory birthed practice. The ideal was that good substance should replace good management. Gospel-centered preaching, authent […]