Alan Hirsch of FORGE has a new book "The Forgotten Ways" and it has just been released. But you knew that already.  An excellent book. You open it up and the first words you read are these .. .
"The Forgotten Ways is a compelling challenge to awaken the church's innate entrepreneurial instinct and propel it into the fringes of our emerging culture. I recommend it highly, especially to those endowed with the boldness to align the church's operating system with the m...
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When I was in college, it was not uncommon for a course to require us to read certain books of the Bible 4, 5, or even 10 times through. And often, 10% or so of our grade on a test was the simple question, “Did you complete the assigned reading for this test?”  You would think that reading through so much Scripture would be extraordinarily life-changing, right? Wrong. At least for me, it wasn’t. And for many of my classmates, it did not appear to be, either. Why is tha...
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Every Monday night, Meredith Scott and eight of her friends get together at one of their homes in St. Paul, Minn. They cook a meal, share what's going on in their lives and pray together. But Scott and her friends don't call this a Bible study or a support group — they call it a church. They are part of the growing number of Americans who are shifting from traditional churches toward more informal, intimate settings, dubbed "house churches."

For the past several years I have been learning to appreciate the Christian Calendar as a means of connecting with Christ and Christians around the world. As I see it there is an inherent organic nature to the Liturgical Calendar in that it brings us closer as humans to the seasons of the earth, causing us to fast and feast according to harvests, to pray as the sun rises and as it sets, and to celebrate the coming of Christ, Lord of the Earth.

Worship within the context of the small, intimate, simple church gathering is one of my favorite subjects.  I love the type of worship I have come to experience within simple church...When these folk open their hearts with an expression of worship, I am able to connect with their deepest cries and honest hearts.  It is as though I am worshiping soul to soul.

When I reflect on the life and witness of Martin Luther King, Jr., one thing I’m always struck by is the obvious: he didn’t begin where he ended up. He didn’t start out as a visionary leader, filled with passion and wisdom and generating applause. No, King - like all bold servants of a cause greater than their own lives - slowly, layer by layer, became what God seems to have had in mind for him to become.