Friday is for Heart Songs Unprepared. I didn’t bring a shovel and now the first snow has fallen and I am unprepared to be a blessing to my neighbors. I had taken the extra shovel and put it out to bring down to Watseka and then decided I would bring it on my next trip. … More Unprepared
Monday Discussion [Four and a half years ago when I first started at Trinty Church. Updated.] Went for a walk last night to count houses and pray. I am acting as the interim pastor (part time, 4 days a week) for a great multi-site church with a vision not to be big but to have … More Finding the “man of peace” in a Neighborhood
The mail just arrive and I just read the story of a young pastor in Pennsylvania giving props to his seminary in an interview conducted for the seminary’s constituents. Somehow, though I have never attended this particular seminary, I am on the mailing list. Here’s one of the questions in the interview: What are you … More Pastors in America are Failing Their Congregations
What does it mean to live like a missionary in the neighborhood? It means to live like Jesus wants us to live. It means to live for the gospel-good of our neighbors. It means to live like my friends from New Jersey in this story post from my archives. Living Missionally in Suburbia.
We are in Christ “Where are we? In some locality of earth’s surface, where the will of God has set us. Perhaps in a spot familiar to us … [a place] made to be …. what it is by a thousand associations of love, of loss, of joy, of grief; intensely near to our consciousness, … More Placed ‘in Christ’ for the Neighbors Among Whom We Live
Monday Discussion Two of the neighbors are having parties. There are back yard tents, cars up and down the street, kids are playing in the street and it got me thinking … I’ve witnessed this scene before…, this black family on our left having a party; this Muslim family on our right having a BBQ; … More Starting Parties for Jesus and Your Neighbor’s Joy
Why We Love Outreach and Hate Evangelism. Our fear of man is muting our impact for Christ when the fields are white unto harvest.
Monday Discussion In March of last year, I posted a blog titled, MacArthur and Osteen are Pastors of the Same Type of Church. That post and the post that followed it Attractional Churches Create Barriers to Ministry, generated quite a bit of good discussion and some great ideas from many of the responders in the … More Shut Down One Sunday a Month and Hit the Streets
Weekend Musings What does it take to change a neighborhood? What does it take to reach a neighborhood for Christ? How do comfort-loving, convenience-oriented, security-driven American Christians overcome their tendency to wait for people to come to them and instead, take the gospel to their neighbors in ways that their neighbors can see the beauty … More Intensely Local Tweets from the Past Week
Thursday is for Discipleship Revised post from the Spring of 2011. [As you plant your garden, think of what you can grow for your neighbors. How can you use your green thumb to bless your neighbors? How will you offer them tomatoes, or carrots, or beets, or peppers, or squash? Can you swap recipes in … More Making Disciples with Asparagus
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