Leadership
So You Don’t Want to Go To Church Anymore?
If you are interested in the growing frustration that many pastors face in ministry, read ‘So You Don’t Want to Go To Church Anymore.’ This is book is available to read online at http://www.jakecolsen.com/jakefront.html Comment by netfriend: It is kind of getting a cult following among many pastors and ministers.
Equality: How the church lost the plot
By BRYAN PATTERSON 30apr06 God is definitely out of the closet — Marianne Williamson AMERICAN journalist Barbara Walters once did a story on gender roles in Afghanistan under the Taliban and noted women customarily walked about five paces behind their husbands. After the Taliban was ousted, Walters returned to Kabul and observed women walked even […]
Healthy Congregations
This article was written as a ministry-reflection assignment for a Doctorate of Ministry through San Francisco Theological Seminary. Written in 1999, it reflects my engagement with the role of national youth ministry coordination in the Presbyterian Church of Aotearoa New Zealand. Although it is written in the context of youth ministry, many of the principles […]
Servant Leadership
This article was written as a ministry-reflection assignment for a Doctorate of Ministry through San Francisco Theological Seminary. Written in 1999, it reflects my engagement with the role of national youth ministry coordination in the Presbyterian Church of Aotearoa New Zealand. Although it is written in the context of youth ministry, many of the principles […]
Being Honest About Churches
Being Honest About Churches Bill Easum has given his life to the renewal of congregations. Easum is one of our most creative and compelling proponents of church growth. He has enabled hundreds of congregations to reclaim their God-given ministry and to grow. I have found some of Easum’s insights helpful in my work with the […]
Devil’s Beatitudes (2)
# Devil’s Beatitudes Followed by the Exiled Believers’ Beatitudes (from Mark; you’ll figure out which is which): Blessed are those who are too tired, too busy, too distracted to spend an hour once a week with their fellow Christians — they are my best work. Blessed are those who are too tired, too busy, too […]
The Reverend Grandma
Weekly Message from Bishop Will Willimon 4.24.2006 The Reverend Grandma Patsy’s Grandmother was the first ordained woman in South Carolina Methodism. Since 1956, the Reverend Bessie B. Parker set a high standard of Christian ministry. This year we will celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the ordination of women in our church. We’ll be having a […]
Planting Growing Churches for the 21st Century
Planting Growing Churches for the 21st Century | Book Review Reviewed by Thomas Scarborough This has been a popular book, and deservedly so. It is now in its seventh printing. The journal Missiology describes it as “perhaps one of the most comprehensive, instructive, and inspiring books on the subject of American church planting written to […]
Spiritual Mentoring
Spiritual Mentoring | Book Review Reviewed by Thomas Scarborough This is a book you are likely either to love or to hate. Faith, it begins, is an “imitative faith”. It is a “faith taught by one to another”. Imitative faith is “passing on the traditions of the faith”. Therefore faith is about “teaching” and “instruction” […]
The Devil’s Music
By Finlo Rohrer BBC News Magazine The Devil is said to have the best tunes, but what do they sound like? A new film about the history of heavy metal highlights the so-called Devil’s Interval, a musical phenomenon suppressed by the Church in the Middle Ages. On the surface there might appear to be no […]
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