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Cultivate Gathering – November 17, 2007

Worth looking into: Cultivate Gathering is a learning party. What does that mean? Well, basically it’s designed to be everything good about a conference without all the rigamarole… and much more fun

Tethered to the Center

The last issue of Christianity Today has a short article on the Gospel Coalition. Because the Coalition’s statements reflect “a broadly Reformed perspective and expects that men lead churches and homes, it

Out-of-balance emphasis on leadership

This post is from the defunct blog “Dying Church” From an interview with megachurch pastor Dr. Ted Traylor: I sense that in the past 10-15 years we have moved to an out-

The Politics of the Kingdom

This post is from the defunct blog “Dying Church” A prophetic call from the late Edmund Clowney, at the end of an essay called “The Politics of the Kingdom” (PDF): The politics of

Marketing the Gospel

This post is from the defunct blog “Dying Church” From Christianity Today on evangelism as marketing: Should it surprise us that in this era, pastors increasingly think of themselves as 'managers,'