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Advent Bingo! Kris Beckert | 9 Dec 2022 Below is an example of how you can encourage your congregation to use the unique opportunities of the season to build relationships outside of your church community. What do you...
What if the best is yet to come? Kris Beckert | 4 Dec 2022 Perhaps as you’ve begun participating in church-sponsored Christmas events, lighting the Advent wreath, baking cookies, and setting up the manger scene, it hit you. You’re old. Or at least older...
From Church Plant to Dinner Church with J.D. Larson 30 Nov 2022 Listen Watch Show Notes J.D. Larson wanted to plant a church. So he raised support, gathered a team and launched. When COVID hit, they struggled to connect and decided to...
Advent, Christmas and Epiphany: Finding Missional Opportunities in The Cycle of Light Jon Davis | 27 Nov 2022 I spend a lot of my life paying attention to rhythms. The seasons; Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter, loom large as they usher in familiar patterns and moments that transport me...
Thanksgiving All Year Long Brad Andres | 18 Nov 2022 Thanksgiving All Year Long One evening during the Community Dinner, Roger sneaks up next to me and whispers, “Hey, how do I give some money to this?” I couldn’t help...
Thriving Denominations with Chris Backert 16 Nov 2022 Denominations and church networks often have auspicious beginnings but struggle to maintain their momentum. In this episode, Dr. Christopher Backert discusses why some denominations are thriving and why that matters...
Advent: Casting Aside Distractions Jon Davis | 14 Nov 2022 Christmas, a moment designed by the Church to remember the miracle of God becoming man, has drifted into an existential consumerism. It is about things and even more so trying...
How Our Thanksgiving Service Project Inspired a Dinner Church J.D. Larson | 10 Nov 2022 For five years of my life, I always looked forward to the third Thursday of November. You read that right, the third Thursday. Indeed, I always look forward to the...
Why Some Churches Adapt and Others Do Not with Tod Bolsinger 2 Nov 2022 Things are changing faster than ever. Churches, like many organizations, struggle to know what to do. Occasionally, you find a church that seems to be able to take new challenges...
My Method For Starting Fresh Expressions of Church Kris Beckert | 27 Oct 2022 My friend bought a couch. Except it wasn’t one of the ones from a furniture-maker or showroom; she bought it online and it came in a box. With parts. Unassembled....
6 Tactics to Replace “Inviting People to Church” David Fitch | 25 Oct 2022 Over a decade ago, Willow Creek, an iconic American church, sought to ‘engage’ its neighborhoods by inviting Randy Frazee to do what he called “the neighborhood initiative.” I don’t know...
God’s Mission & what does that make the Church? with Graham Cray 19 Oct 2022 What if the Bible wasn’t just a bunch of interesting stories and good advice, but an account of God’s mission in the world? If God is on a mission, what...

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