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 Once a man had two sons. The younger son said to his father, "Give me my share of the property." So the father divided his property between his two sons.
Not long after that, the younger son packed up everything he owned and left for a foreign country, where he wasted all his money in wild living. He had spent everything, when a bad famine spread through that whole land. Soon he had nothing to eat. He went to work for a man in that country, and the man sent him out to take care of the his pigs. He would have been glad to eat what the pigs were eating, but no one would give him a thing. |
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 House2House and Karis Publishing have put together this great video about the growth of the simple church movement. Listen to leaders like Felicity Dale, Jim Rutz, Neil Cole, Mike Steele, John White, and Wolfgang Simpson and more speaking out on this exciting new movement. |
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City ministry is a good classroom, but only if you're paying attention to the Master Teacher. I've learned a lot of lessons about mission, transformation, and ministry to the soul. I've been learning how to think through the parables of Jesus and therefore think in new and deeper ways about mission and Kingdom. The spiritual lessons I've learned are not quantifiable.
People asked me near the beginning of this ministry: What if someone gave you a building? OR What if this church...
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Stuart Murray, an English scholar, has offered the church significant commentary on what some are calling Post-Christendom in his book of the same name. Post-Christendom seems to be happening simultaneously with the shift of post-modernism. It is the phenomenon of the church as a central, powerful, politically dominant institution as it has been -- in one way or another -- in Western Europe and the U.S. shifting into a more marginalized position in western society. As believers we can...
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As I've stepped into doctoral work, reflected on my experience of hosting interns, and look towards developing an apprenticeship initiative in the city, I've been thinking quite a bit about how to prepare emerging leaders for a world for which the previous curriculum was just not written. In previous classes at conferences or other other events, I've given an introduction that I sometimes don't think people completely grasp, at least not really. I stand up and say, "Hi, I'm Jared and I'm from...
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Stories to Remember 
