Church

From Embers to a Flame

I have dozens of books on church revitalization. They range from trendy and shallow to not bad, but few of them are really good. That’s why I am glad to have found

Peterson on Christian community

Love cannot exist in isolation: away from others, love bloats into pride. Grace cannot be received privately: cut off from others, it is perverted into greed. Hope cannot develop in solitude: separated from

Summer Jobs

Richview is looking for a couple of students to do some community research, and to help prepare us to serve the community. More info here. If you know of someone who might be

Measuring the right things

This post is from the defunct blog “Dying Church” LT on measuring success as church: We need to change what we measure and how we measure our success. * Do people have a proper

Emerging Essentials

In Why We’re Not Emerging, Kevin DeYoung writes: If the emerging church struggles to find a theological center, it struggles even more to define theological boundaries – not just what they are, but