Get Back Loretta...
Get Back Loretta was recently dubbed “Best New Artist” at the San Diego Music Awards. (A friend is in the band.) Congratulations, and I’d encourage all of you to check out their music. Listen at myspace.com/getbackloretta
Chazown...
I just got an advanced reader copy of Chazown. It should be an interesting read about Pastor Craig Groeschel, who planted a church that is now multi-site. Chazown Book Description Vision and Purpose: Dream It, Live It, Attain It Do you wake up each day motivated by knowing exactly why you were created?...
Ministries of Mercy: The Call of the Jer...
I've begun reading a book by Pastor Tim Keller (Redeemer NY) and I highly recommend it. Ministries of Mercy: The Call of the Jericho Road is a dose of what every church needs as we move toward bringing the gospel to our communities in the form of mercy in serving and social justice. This book is...
New Life Presbyterian Church...
“Christians can’t fight battles of sin alone. I failed miserably when I tried to deal with sin on my own. I felt alone. I was fearful of sharing my struggles with others,” said Jim Allsop, New Life Church’s treasurer. Allsop said he appreciates New Life because of the community’s...
Church Plant Reality Show...
I'm sure many of you have seen this: Hi, I'm a casting director with Bunim-Murray Productions (Real World, Starting Over, The Scholar), and I'm currently working on a TV show about a pastor who is starting a new church. I found your church information on the Emergent Church website and...
St. Anthony’s Orthodox Christian Churc...
“Most people have no idea what the Orthodox Church is. When I joined the church, my [Protestant] family was perplexed. They thought I had joined the Catholic Church, and Protestants are Rome-a-phobic,” said David Hunt. Hunt transferred to St. Anthony’s Orthodox Church from Horizon Church...
Top Church Business Adminstrators...
Pastor Jamie Munson, a friend from when I attended Mars Hill, was just honored as one of the Top 10 Church Business Adminstrators by the Church Report. 10 Jamie Munson Jamie Munson is the executive pastor of Mars Hill Church (www. marshillchurch.org), a church of 4,000 in Seattle, Wash. He oversees the...
Tyler Goodmanson’s New Townhouse...
My brother’s Seattle home (He built with three friends) has finally been completed. Congratulations. It has a great view of Ballard and Freemont in Seattle. They also have a community hot tub on the roof. Sweet.
Church Web Standards Project...
A new site is launched called the Godbit Project. I’m pretty excited about what they stand for. Something I have been pushing for a while here as we speak with churches about how to use technology for the advancement of the Kingdom of God. Here is their purpose: The purpose of this site is to...
Aqualung: Strange and Beautiful...
I am a confessed musoholic (new word?). I eagerly wait for each Tuesday like a child on Christmas Eve - knowing that I will get to hear the new albums that will be released for that week. But as excited as I get by the prospect of hearing something great, I am more than often let down by the lack of...
Outreach, Inc....
In 2005, churches will mail over 50 million direct-mail postcards created by Outreach, Inc., the largest provider of Christian outreach products and services in North America. In addition, churches will hang 200,000 Outreach door hangers on houses, hand out several million bulletins, and display 160,000...
Outreach Seminar: The TurnOut Solution: ...
Churches lapse into plateau and decline because, over time, they turn more and more inward. The solution is simply that churches must turn outward in order to correct spiritual negatives and to reach lost communities strategically. When they do, they foster health and growth, and see an increase in turnout. ...
Angels & Demons...
Kaleo began a new series about angels and demons. There are so many questions and confusion about what exactly angels and demons are. What is the involvement in our lives? What are demons? Is it possible for them to possess us? What are angels? Can we communicate with them? These are questions that...
Serenity the Movie...
A review of the movie Serenity from Mike Gunn (Pastor @ Harambee in south Seattle and co-founder of Mars Hill) at our Kaleo site: This big-screen version of the short-lived TV series Firefly is set 500 years in the future and focuses on space captain Malcolm Reynolds and his crew, who make a living...
The Long Tail and Power of Church Planti...
Bruce Chant tackles one of my favorite concepts, the long tail (For work we're devloping on a long-tail content management system. Not Ekklesia our church content management system.) and discusses it's implications for church planting: Within my own city, you see “niche’s”...

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