Books from 2006 worth reading
Here’s four excellent books I’ve read this past year which are worth getting a hold of… They are Eat This Book (Eugene Peterson); Death By Suburb: How to keep the suburbs from killing your soul (David Goetz); Leading With A Limp (Dan Allender); and Exiles: Living missionally in a post-Christian culture (Michael Frost). If any [...]
A call to holistic mission – Wayne Kirkland
Christians don’t have to talk long with each other to realise that what one person means by the words ‘mission’ and ‘evangelism’ may be very different to what someone else means. This is not too suprising, since the church contains a broad spectrum of views. But what about amongst evangelicals? Can we agree on what [...]
Servants or celebrities?
Mixed Messages I had just finished reading an article on ‘Servant Evangelism’ and happened to glance at the biographical info about the author. I could not believe my eyes. It read “X is pastor or the Y church, recently listed as one of the top 25 fastest growing churches in the USA”. To say that [...]
I’ve been ruminating about…shopping malls
Every city has a least one. World class cities have dozens. If you have a car they’re easy to get to. In fact, chances are the town planners in your city are predicting future traffic flows, roads, and even population growth based on where the malls are and will be. No wonder Auckland’s planners have [...]
The ad and the ego
This is a transcript from a video production by Parallax Pictures. Dave Tims sourced the video a few years ago. It is very insightful and thoughtful analysis by a number of experts. Last year I transcribed the text – painstaking, but worth it! “A democratic civilization will save itself only if it makes the language [...]
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