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A Bob Roberts quote really caught my attention lately. He said, “We don’t plant churches in America. We plant worship services.”  Ouch. 1. If your Super Bowl party last night was full of church people and small group holy huddles…you have planted a worship service. **I know we are missional, incarnational, organic, blah, blah, blah. [...]

There are a lot of new buzz words and strategies these days for planting churches. I must admit, I am from a small town and I need things to be simple in order to understand them. Studying through the book of Acts, it seems the first church planted new churches and “turned the world upside [...]

About three years ago I met a middle-aged man who had been working as an art conservator during the former GDR (German Democratic Republic), the Socialist Germany. He had been fired after the reunification of Germany and was since then jobless. He had been through a hard twenty years, most of that time in the [...]

A few weeks ago, Georgia, my wife and I went to downtown Berlin to do some shopping. We had seven different stops to make. As we were leaving the house I told my wife that I wanted to “add value” to the employees of the places where we were going to shop. I prepared myself inside, [...]

I’m a part of a church who has a heart for the poor. We also have a heart for our city. From the beginning, our strategy has been to connect the dots between social action and Gospel, knowing that somehow, together we become good news, as we seek to walk in the ways of Jesus. [...]

The death of outspoken atheist Christopher Hitchens last week was mourned by both believer and non-believer alike. There was something about this man that people loved – even those whose faith he tried to destroy. He wrote how “religion ruins everything” – pointing out excesses in various religious practices that were wrong. His attacks, for the [...]

Woody Hayes is credited with this description of Ohio State football.  It really came from a sportwriter and was originally “Five yards and a cloud of dust”, then “Four Yards and a cloud of dust” and finally became famous as “Three yards and a cloud of dust.” Regardless, the philosphy of attending to the basics [...]