I wish Barefoot Churchwas written before I planted my first church.  It would have saved me a lot of pain and mistakes.  This is a book filled with practical action-steps that will help the church embrace the beauty of Sunday and prepare for living out the mission, to love God and love our neighbor; locally [...]

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It’s Monday, which means a new week has started. Personally, I’m really excited. For the first time in months I have no meetings planned, no travel scheduled and no events to attend for the next few weeks. I get to take some time to process 2010 and plan 2011. I hope to create an 18 [...]

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In less than an hour, I will head to the airport, and fly to Philly via Chicago Midway (please, no snow). I can’t wait to hang with Todd Hiestand, speak at The Well and connect with others such as Laurence, and Tom. Hopefully, I’ll get to spend some time with students who are on a [...]

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Just a random thought. But, I do think it’s important, especially for those trying to grasp what it means to be a missional church. Yesterday, after service at Soma, a group of us were eating at Torchy’s Tacos, one of their members said this: Sunday, is basically an after-thought to us, it’s the rest of [...]

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In Mark Batterson’s third book, he tries to get the reader back to a “primal Christianity.” In essence, he attempts to remove the multiple layers of culture and religion that has sunk the Western Church into a mere form of institution, rather than the movement that it’s called to be. The author tends to focus [...]

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I wanted to take a moment and review Live Sent: You are a letter. I met Jason (the author) in DC this past summer. He is a great dude, who is “living-out” what he penned. Some books offer a tremendous balance and Live Sent is one of those books, it has the ability to influence [...]

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I recently did an interview with Charles Lee…Head over here to check it out!

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If you’ve spent anytime in the church, than you’ve heard “faith without works is dead” probably a million times. So, what is our response? Usually to work! However, here’s the issue: most of our work has been defined by what we do inside the four walls of the local church, such as: Serve on a [...]

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As a new Christian, Roosevelt Hunter made a huge impact in my life. He used to come to my Youth Group in Cali every two to three months to preach week-long-revivals, hold all night prayer vigals and we would also do street ministry. We also spent 10 days in Detroit serving his inner-city church that [...]

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My following strengths according to Strength Finders: 1. Futurist. (I hate this, hard to focus on the present when you are thinking about the future) 2. Activator. (Start things-always!!!) 3. Belief (Prophetic, passionate, not giving-in, for me its church planting and poverty) 4. Command (this is why people hate me-kidding of course 5. Input (I [...]

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