This is a must read ebook! I really think this is a winner and I am going to make my staff read it and recommend it to all the students in our ministry. I love this book by Michael Frost because it gives a great hook about evangelism and why and how we should do it, but then it gives us very very practical ways to live out a Jesus-centered life. He gives us an acronym, BELLS, and each letter is a simple yet challenging habit that if you live into with community God is going to move.
What you don’t transform, you will transmit
By Beau Crosetto
Here is a great excerpt I read that I wanted to pass along. Any believer needs to be thinking about their shadow self and how they are bringing it into the light of Jesus. I hope this helps as you continue to press the edge of mission as an apostle, prophet or evangelist.
“It is really shocking how little Jesus is shocked by human failure and sin. In fact, it never appears that he is upset at sinners at all. He is only and consistently upset at people who do not think they are sinners. This momentous insight puts him centuries ahead of modern psychology and right at the center of rare but authentic religion. So much so, that most Christianity itself never notices or addresses this pattern. It is an inconvenient truth.
Does God Give Us Signs To Help Us Believe?
As an evangelist, one of my favorite things to do is speak to groups of people that are trying to figure out if Jesus is real and worth following. I love talking to people that are not of the Christian faith yet.
I recently gave a talk at UCLA to about 300 students at it was all about signs.
It’s Not a Relay Unless You Pass the Baton
By Chris Nichols
What is it that makes a relay race different?
Runners run as a team, working collaboratively to hand off the baton in order to win the race.
Justified Anger: Racial Profiling
photo courtesy of MICHELLE STOCKER — The Capital Times
I am way late on this post, but its not too late. Rev. Alex Gee, a friend of mine and pastor among many things in Madison Wisconsin, is speaking out on racial profiling and why he is concerned about life in Madison for an African American. He is raising some great points.
I am posting it here for three reasons:
Why Does God Allow Pain & Suffering?
Last week at UCLA on Greek Row discussing, “I would follow Jesus BUT…I want to have fun.”
By Beau Crosetto
I am speaking inside a fraternity house on Wednesday night on this subject. Its a tough one. We are in the middle of a series called, “I would follow Jesus BUT…
This week the statement is, “BUT…he allows bad things to happen to people.”
I’d love your prayers as I have this discussion, but I’d also like to pass along this helpful video as well as the website as a whole…
Winner: APE Tshirt Design
Ok, we are almost ready to print! Here was the clear cut winner from the comments, Facebook & Twitter. It was suggested to put the “ape” where the O is and I like that a lot. I also had them put the website on the back.
But I think we need two kinds of options so I want to print one more kind of shirt as well. Please vote in the comments for the one you like best out of these three choices.
What part do WHITE people play?
Scott Hall is a prophetic voice in our culture and a great guy that I work with in Los Angeles. Here is a post I thought could be helpful that he wrote a few weeks ago. Enjoy and be challenged!
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In light of this past week’s MLK holiday, and the upcoming Black History Month, I’ve been reflecting on the role White people have to play in God’s heart for justice. After centuries of being at the center of power in the West, is it time for White folks to take a back seat to people of color? Do we no longer have the right to have a voice in the conversation? Or is there a place for our voices and leadership? Is there something lost without us in the mix?
Last week I asked some of these questions to students at Pacific Lutheran University. A junior at PLU, Catherine, responded to my challenges in an email I have pasted below:
You can read the whole article and their responses here
Take The Training Wheels Off!
By Jon Hietbrink
In my last post, I shared about how we, as aspiring movement leaders, must seek to lead our ministries on, but not over, the “edge of chaos” and almost nothing highlights this tension more acutely than how we handle the people we lead. True movement is impossible without all-play empowerment, and this kind of mobilization hinges on our willingness to both trust and entrust those we lead.
APE T-Shirt Designs
Here are 10 different designs for APE t-shirts. Please vote in the comments which one you like best. If you like a few of them equally then feel free to put multiple numbers. We will select 1 shirt design to print and sell at first. Obviously if there is some demand then we can print other designs going forward.
So which ones/one do you like best? What would you be proud to wear? Vote now!
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