I’ve been doing some reading about “mission” this week, as I prepare for a teaching time about one of the core elements of a Christian’s…
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Foundations 2 (God) – Further Resources
For those of you who are taking the second four-week Foundations course at Westwood, a pdf of yesterday’s PowerPoint presentation is available here (just in…
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Do Western Churches Focus Too Much on Numbers?
I have just started to read Ravi Zacharias’ book called Beyond Opinion. In the introduction, he makes an observation about why the church in the…
View More Do Western Churches Focus Too Much on Numbers?Foundations 1 (the Bible) – Further Resources
For those of you who are taking the first four-week Foundations course at Westwood, here are some resources you can refer to if you want…
View More Foundations 1 (the Bible) – Further ResourcesDoes Church Work?
Here is a tough question – Does church, the way that we do it today, actually work? Put another way, does a person’s involvement in…
View More Does Church Work?What Happened to Christian Canada?
FYI … there is a great article (and series of responses) that the Evangelical Fellowship of Canada has just published – click here to read…
View More What Happened to Christian Canada?Fully Engaged – Romans 12:1-2
If the overall umbrella of the Christian life is that full engagement comes only with full surrender, and full engagement in life requires transformation of…
View More Fully Engaged – Romans 12:1-2Fully Engaged – Romans 12-16
Well, after hearing a couple of pastoral “confessions” yesterday1 🙂 how do you respond to the challenge to be “fully engaged” in your Christian spirituality? …
View More Fully Engaged – Romans 12-16Small Group Strategy
I just finished reading an article about Small Group Strategy, in which the author (Jim Egli), suggested that many churches have misunderstood the purpose of…
View More Small Group StrategyGroundswell – Who Goes Online?
I just finished reading Groundswell (Harvard Business Press), and in the book, the authors provide some interesting statistics as they relate to if/how people participate…
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