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Dallas Willard: Don’t make outreach a primary goal

Common wisdom says that inwardly focused churches need to focus on outreach in order to change. Dallas Willard challenges this wisdom in Renovation of the Heart: It is, I gently suggest, a serious

James Grier on preaching in a postmodern culture

Spent the day at Heritage Seminary yesterday listening to James Grier talk about “Preaching in a Postmodern Culture”. This is a subject that could go horribly wrong if it fell into the wrong

Redemptively Discontent

My latest column at Christian Week: A funny thing happened a few years ago. I always assumed that people who complain about church have a bad attitude. One day, I began to listen

Rick McKinley: A beautiful and messy kingdom.

From Leadership Blog, a lab session with Rick McKinley at Catalyst: “As pastors, we are tempted to build the church,” he said. “So we send out postcards to targeted Zip codes and we

The future of the American church

At TallSkinnyKiwi, Redeemer pastor Tim Keller comments on the future of the American church: I think it’s premature to say what the future of the American church will be. Frankly, almost every