Saturday, May 30,  Christians from the Dallas-Fort Worth area will show up in Lancaster Texas to help the elderly with their yard work.
I talk alot about missional living.  I believe that every Christian is supposed to live in a missional context whether it is on the job,  in the neigborhood or in the store.
Most people [...]

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Matt Carter on Missional Small Groups
In the video (see link above) from the Leadership Network program, THE SHOW, Pastor Matt Carter of the Austin Stone Community Church  in Austin Texas discusses their failure at developing community through small groups…and what they did about it.
Key point: When we focused on community, we got neither community or mission. [...]

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Recently, I learned that the church used to attend,  Cross Timbers Community Church in Argyle is undergoing some changes.  I was excited when I heard the things that were happening.  As one long time member told me,  things are really changing.
Cross Timbers was a phenomonen.  It started out on the second Sunday of January 2000 [...]

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Gospel Poverty isn’t a term that is used much.  We here a lot more about the Prosperity Gospel than we do Gospel Poverty, though the term has been around in Roman Catholicism for a while.
Gospel Poverty is not a vow to be poor.  It is not destitution.  It is the idea of living simply with [...]

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Last Monday night was incredible.   A couple of my friends were going to do prophetic ministry with a group of young people.  It was an unusual group with about eight boys and one girl - and the girl was the leader.  Most of the kids go to a Vinyard church. 
My friends Flora and Larry have [...]

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Last night at the simple Church I attend, things started out kind of blah.  The leader was going to teach, but he was exhausted and wasn’t planning to facilitate.  The worship plans fell through.  The one who was going to lead worship had to work and … anyway it started out looking like a waste [...]

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Pleas for help — spiritual and financial — are flooding U.S. churches, from tiny congregations to megachurches, as recession woes seep into the pews, a new survey finds.
Pastors say they’re giving out benevolent funds in record numbers, increasing ministries to the unemployed and the financially fearful, even reaching into their own pockets more to [...]

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