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10 Ideas for Celebrating Advent in Your Church, Home and Community Winfield Bevins | 16 Dec 2015 Advent is my favorite season of the Christian year. I especially love the colors, sites, and smells of the season, not to mention Christmas cookies! Advent is a great reminder...
Staying Alert to God: A Starting Point for Holiness and Fresh Expressions Gannon Sims | 14 Dec 2015 Lyricist Charles Jennens picked these words from the third chapter of Malachi. George Frederick Handel put them to music in the oratorio Messiah: For he is like a refiner’s fire....
Learning to Pray in a Fresh Expression of Church Joshua Hearne | 9 Dec 2015 It’s already about twelve minutes after the time we’re supposed to get started when I step out onto the porch. “Five minutes and we’re going to get started, y’all,” I...
You Might Not Want to Hear This During Advent (But Jesus Said It) Luke Edwards | 7 Dec 2015 My favorite part of Advent is getting to dust off that old Book of Isaiah. Isaiah’s prophecies of the coming kingdom paint a picture of peace and harmony better...
Structured for Decline? Understanding the Strengths and Weaknesses of Denominational Systems Chris Backert | 2 Dec 2015 In order to examine factors relating to the decline of traditional denominations, a greater understanding of how denominations are structured is necessary. In many ways, the structure of trans-local covenanted...
Multi-Sites or Fresh Expressions? Which is Better for Your Church? Travis Collins | 30 Nov 2015 One of the most popular developments in church life over the last fifteen years is that of churches having multiple sites, or campuses. “One church in multiple locations” is the...
Five Reasons to be Thankful Even When Your Church World is Falling Apart Chris Morton | 25 Nov 2015 For Christian leaders, especially those committed to established churches and denominations, it might be hard to be thankful these days. There’s a lot of doom and gloom in the media...
Our Friends Asked Us the Wrong Question. Here’s How Fresh Expressions Helped. Jay Smith | 23 Nov 2015 When we started Convergence, we didn’t know anything about this concept called “Fresh Expressions.” After all, we started merely a year after Fresh Expressions US was founded in response to...
Watch: Uncommon Grounds, a “Listening Space” 19 Nov 2015 Uncommon Grounds in a fresh expression of Church that was started when some people noticed that “there were bars to get drunk at and churches to get preached at” but...
A Prayer for France, and a Prayer for Us 16 Nov 2015 With the cries of mourners still ringing in our ears, may we look to the scriptures and our tradition to find words of prayer. The situation may not be the...
Churches Should Stop Giving Away Stuff and Do This Instead Luke Edwards | 11 Nov 2015 Some days it seems like the American church only knows how to relate to our neighbors by giving something away. Like an absent father who has lost touch with his...
Indigenous and Traditional: My Calling to Fresh Expressions for the US Travis Collins | 9 Nov 2015 I was twenty-two when I had a mystical experience which I remember vividly. I was crossing a wide street, heavy with traffic, in downtown Caracas, Venezuela. Somewhat similar to (albeit...

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