lifeasmission

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This year I had the good fortune to be able to host an annual New Year’s Eve Party for a bunch of my Malone friends and plenty of others.  The party was doubly significant in that it also marked the completion of a bunch of restoration that I’ve been doing on my home.  For [...]

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On Sunday I went with some friends to see The Kingdom at our local dollar theater.  I thought so much of it, that I invited some other friends and went back to see it last night.
This was an awesome movie.  Not only shot, directed, and acted well, but an incredibly eye-opening (though certainly not meant [...]

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I came across this blog post today entitled, “Willow Creek Repents?” and I was immediately reminded of something I wrote a while back where I said that one characteristic of missional churches is their willingness to repent for the things they have said and done which they come to realize were off the mark. [...]

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I don’t consider myself particularly artistic. I do enjoy writing and I have tried my hand at songs and poetry on occasion, but the vast majority of my writing comes in prose form. I can’t draw, paint, sculpt, or sketch worth a darn, and the depth my insight into the work of [...]

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As someone who is constantly thinking about what what radical (or perhaps just faithful) missional life in the midst of suburban affluence looks like, I really appreciated this post from David Fitch.
Basically, he’s talking about what it looks like to missional communities to navigate a communal life without defaulting to consumer-oriented affinity. 
I have but one [...]

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Everyone please read this awesome post from my friend Jason, “Mission and Kingdom.”

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At the risk of confusing those who associate “The Move” with my friend Babs’ dancing talents…

I actually feel like offering a thought or two on a different kind of move - the one from an attractional way of being the church to a missional way.
More and more churches are attempting (or at least saying they [...]

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As a prelude to something else I want to post soon, I wanted to say some more about where I work and what I do.
I am a part of a team of people who work with Fuller’s Master of Arts in Global Leadership Program.  Though often confused with a bent toward global domination ;), the [...]

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Not sure why I didn’t think of this the other day, but there is another vital component of what it mean to be the people of God linked to the idea of hospitality - welcoming the stranger.
Because of their experience in Egypt and God’s deliverance, the nation of Israel was admonished to always welcome the [...]

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reposted from when I erased my blog 
I was having a discussion with Maria the other day about the differences in our “callings.” She looks forward to a future in which she devotes most of her time and energy to engaging those outside of traditional church structures, commonly understood as non-Christians. I, on the [...]

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