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John Mott on Establishing Movements

This is a long post, and well worth our time to digest. John Mott, global Christian statesman and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1946 for developing volunteer Protestant movements, distills the essence of Christian movement-building for us. If you feel lost in emerging- missional- organic- apostolic- leader/follower-speak, Mott will refresh you. LESSONS I […]

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2008 Preflections: Two Words

I know I’m 11 days late in posting an inspiring New Years blog like everyone else. It’s not that I haven’t been thinking, praying and wrestling with what, no who, I want to be at the end of this year. Oddly enough, traveling to LA, Edmonton, and Denver to spend time with 3,000 students in […]

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Do You Prefer Storms or Hope?

Words have power. Most people I know prefer hope to conflict, challenge, opposition, bad weather, delays, shipwreck, drowning, injury and possible death. The same was true in 1488 when Portuguese explorer Bartholomeu Dias first encountered what he called the Cape of Storms while seeking a trade route to the Far East. John II, king of […]