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It's time to catch up on your reading of mostly harmless, occasionally thoughtful and always intriguing blog commentary. Try these for starters...
bloggedy blog
This is Andrew Careaga's personal weblog. Andrew Careaga, the author of eMinistry (http://www.gospelcom.net/kregel/e-ministry/index.htm), is a writer, manager of public relations for the University of Missouri-Rolla and a volunteer youth pastor at Salem Faith Assembly Church in Salem, Missouri.
emergesque
Stephen Shields is the founder of faithmaps.org, a marketing manager with USA TODAY, a free lance writer, and formerly a bi-vocational pastor with Cedar Ridge Community Church. Emergesque explores theology, leadership, discipleship, praxis and church life in the emerging church.
heal your church web site
"Teaching, rebuking, correcting & training in righteous web design." HYCW is all about how to design church and para-church websites that are effective, fast-loading, informative, edifying and hopefully a bit fun. Provides critiques of various sites in hopes of "removing the splinters so we can view our sites in a new, more 'prophet-able' way."
holy weblog
Joyce Garcia's Weblog. God is in the details. And the Internet. Time to examine the quirky, admirable and outrageous in the world of faith. Godspeed.
Reckless Abandon
The Call to be a Spiritual Poineer
By Larry Tomczak
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Ralph Emerson once said, "Do not go where there is a path. Instead,
go where others haven't gone, and leave a trail."
Throughout this book, author and pioneer Larry Tomczak helps
awaken within you the desire to trust God more, to "leap off the top
of the stairs into the strong arms of your loving, laughing heavenly
Father."
It's time to stir up that pioneer spirit. Take some big risks, because
the rewards are even bigger!
For more information, click here!
A Continuing Education Course to Equip Church Leaders.
Healthy Lay Leadership
by Frank Damazio
Healthy church leaders are usually not inherited, although this can happen. They are usually trained, mentored, equipped or nurtured into healthy church leaders. To train and equip healthy church leaders you must have a healthy church program and a healthy church.
A healthy pastor who has built a healthy church knows the value of the average person in the pew, for this is from where all future leadership will arise. They aren’t grown just in seminaries and Bible colleges, but from the rank and file of the congregation. Our churches are rich in potential leadership, but they must be discerned, trained and released.
Before we discuss lay leadership, we must define the term "lay." Historically speaking, the laity were those who were not educated in theology as the clergy were. This caused a division in the ranks of the church that God did not intend. We do not recognize this division.
To learn the characteristics and qualities for a healthy lay leadership team, click here!
Insightful commentary, vain babblings or somewhere in between? You be the judge...
Church of the Darkened Theatre
Transcendence is a powerful word. It's a word used to describe a spiritual experience. And it's an unlikely word choice for a Hollywood movie. But ever since childhood, I experienced transcendence more in a darkened movie theater than in a church service. Yet what I longed for was more than a movie plot. I longed for something bigger than me. What I longed for was God. And the church didn't provide the transcendence that I experienced when I watched movies.
There's a lot more where this came from! For the whole rant and nothing but the rant in this para-dig-um shattering article from Relevant Magazine, click here!
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