What is a missional community?

Allow me to share one more post today – this one from Desiring God Ministries, who is hosting a National Conference called “Finish the Mission.”  One of the speakers is Jeff Vanderstelt of Soma Communities in Washington.  He has a wonderful little primer on missional communities.  His basic definition is …. A missional community is [...]

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“Christian Hedonism” That sounds like an oxymoron.  At least it did to me when I first heard the phrase at Fuller Seminary in 1989.  At the time, I didn’t understand most of what Dr. Dan Fuller was talking about in his class, “The Unity of the Bible.” It wouldn’t be until a few years later [...]

Don’t Waste Your Life Sentence

I have had very little experience with people in prison.  And even that little experience is far more than I care for.  In most cases, the people I have visited are in for short sentences or brief encounters, most not more than a few months. But what would you say if you could speak to [...]