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You Are a Soul: Crafting a Rhythm of Life
Uncategorized, church planter, church planter resource, contemplative, emotional health, emotionally healthy practices, holistic health, integrated life, integration, interior life, intimacy, mental health, mindfulness, Missional-Incarnational, physical health, relational health, rest, Rhythm and Rule of Life, rhythms, sacred, seasons, self awareness, soul care, spiritual direction, spiritual health, spiritual personalities, spiritual practices, spirituality, vocational healthI started getting serious about soul care when things in my life started to change. Living in a new city, getting married, and having a child within 3 years is a lot of change in a short period of time! And over the next few years, not o...
Dawn Settlement: A Vision of Church as a Business Ecosystem
Uncategorized, bivocational, business, church leadership, church plant funding, church planter, Church Planting, church planting resources, covocational, funding, learning cohorts, marketplace church, marketplace mission, marketplace planting, missional church, missional church planting, Missional Leadership, racial justice, VocationI was sitting in a “yoga café” on a cold January morning in Ferguson, Missouri with two young men. One was Taylor McCall, whom I’m writing this book with, and another was Jonathan Tremaine Thomas. If the name Ferguson didn’t initially j...
Discerning Your Way Through 2021
Uncategorized, discernment, gratitude, listening, pandemic, reflection, rhythms, sabbath, spiritual health, spiritual practicesHow seriously will you follow Christ in 2021? 2020 is over and most of us are thinking about what we want to focus our own lives and those of our congregations in the coming year. It’s hard because looking ahead is almost as uncertain ...
Structuring for Movement Immersion
Uncategorized, church leadership, church planter, Church Planting, church planting resources, Community Formation, Discipleship, Four Spaces of Belonging, immersion, Intimate Space, jr woodward, missional church planting, missional community, missional discipleship, missional ecclesiology, Missional Leadership, missional movement, Personal Space, Public Space, Social SpaceA 6-week Immersion in How Jesus Used the 4 Spaces of Belonging to Make & Multiply Disciples w/ JR Woodward & Eun Strawser About this Immersion Do you know if the life of your church helps to grow CONSUMERS or DISCIPLES? Have current chur...
You Are a Soul: Vocational Health
Uncategorized, burnout, church planter, church planter resource, contemplative, emotionally healthy practices, holistic health, Identity, integrated life, integration, interior life, Missional-Incarnational, Rhythm and Rule of Life, sacred, self awareness, self care, soul care, spiritual health, spiritual practices, stress, Vocation, vocational health, work, workaholicPaul Tournier was a Swiss physician and is widely regarded as the most prominent Christian physician of the 20th century. He published over 20 books during his career and was a prominent and captivating public speaker. But what made Tour...
31 Days of Delight
Uncategorized, delight, gratitude, holistic health, prayer, reflection, Resources, rhythms, solitude, spiritual health, spiritual practices, spirituality, worshipWe are invited to “delight yourself in the Lord” (Ps. 37:4a), but I have noticed that many Christians haven’t yet experienced God as actually “delightful.” The most enjoyable part of my entire life has been to discover new dept...
Powerful Reflection
Uncategorized, church leadership, church planter, Church Planting, church planting resources, Community Formation, Discipleship, feedback, missional church, missional church planting, missional community, missional discipleship, Missional Leadership, missional resource, new year, reflection, rhythms, self awareness, thick communityAs church planters, we may easily get bogged down from the nitty gritty of shaping organizational structures and managing the great work of investing deeply into the individuals in our communities, but there is a key way of pausing in th...
Acknowledging Your Pain – Celebrating Blue Christmas
Uncategorized, Blue Christmas, Christmas, coronavirus, covid-19, emotionally healthy practices, pandemic, processing pain, spiritual practicesWe are rapidly approaching the end of a year that, for many of us, has been the most challenging of our lives. We are all worn out and weary. A lot of us are ZOOMed out, Coronavirused out, and longing for peace. We’re all in different ...
Crossing Boundaries in Divided Times Webinar
Uncategorized, beloved community, boundary-crossing mission, church planting resources, Community Formation, Leadership, missional community, Missional Leadership, story-formed community, V3 WebinarsThe fault lines that divide American society—divisions over race, politics, social issues and more—run right through the Body of Christ. We quickly accuse each other of being swept away by ideologies and idolatries. It is harder and ...
