Common Denominator

This is the eighth post in the Pastoral Leadership part of my Seminary in a Nutshell series. The first six were: Categories of Leadership ...

This is the ninth post  on the Church in my ongoing series,  theology in bullet points . The first unit in this series had to do with  God a...

Previously on Seminary take-aways: 1.  There are key moments of opportunity. 2.  You need the right people. 3. Good leaders collaborate a...

It seemed appropriate to sit back and reflect a little after finishing Scot McKnight's book, King Jesus Gospel .  I had a sense of where...

I've been giving some of my wishes for the MDIV curriculum at Wesley. Pastor, Church, and World Cultural Contexts of Ministry Bible ...

Lois Barrett in Treasure in Clay Jars has 8 criteria for taking the missional temperature of a church.  I thought I'd summarize them in...

In a Missional Church class this week we asked the question, is there another hermeneutic other than a missional one? It seems to be someth...

I was privileged to sit in on a conference at Wheaton these past two days called "Government, Foreign Assistance, and God's Mission...

We're about half way through the first online week of an MDIV course called the Missional Church. Dr. Charles Arn is the professor of r...

What is missional? What is a missional church? Treasure in Clay Jars puts it well when it says, "Missional churches see themselves not...

As a quick pulse through the blogging system, what do you think is missing from an approach to the church, hermeneutics, eschatology, etc. t...

Let's say I was going to read a different book every week for the next 20 weeks trying to get an overall and yet balanced sense of a mis...

Both Brian Russell of Asbury Orlando and IWU's own Steve Lennox, not to mention the prolific Scot McKnight and the lovely Mission of G...