Free book
Rick McKinleys book This Beautiful Mess: Practicing the Presence of the Kingdom of God is now a year old, and Rick is giving away some review copies to bloggers.
Beautiful Mess is written
Church
I am a closet liturgist
This morning we attended St. Paul’s Anglican Church in downtown Toronto. We picked the 9:30 family service, which is held in a corner of the huge sanctuary and feels surprisingly intimate.
God and church vision statements
It’s now generally accepted that if you are going to be a leader, you need vision. I generally buy this. Some of the most effective leaders I know have modeled this for
Rescuing souls vs. loving neighbors
I’m still finding that social justice sometimes takes a backseat to evangelism in some circles. In others, it’s just the opposite. In his book Compassion, Justice, and the Christian Life, Robert
Preaching – too much of a good thing?
My friend LT suggests that sermons may be like nitrogen in fertilizer. It’s necessary, yet too high a concentration is deadly:
The point I try to make about sermons is that they