Discover the Personality Type of Your Congregation
Learn your congregation’s unique personality!
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Starting Fresh: Growing in Love
What if we replaced New Year’s Resolutions with a resolve to love God with all our heart, soul, mind, and strength… and to love our neighbor as ourselves?
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Starting Fresh: Learning from Our Ghosts
Part II Don’t start the new year with a “Bah! Humbug!” attitude! Every year, Charles Dickens’s 1843 novella A Christmas Carol is reconceived and remixed in new forms of media.
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Starting Fresh: Setting a Spiritual Intention for 2023
The new year is always an opportunity to reset and refocus. Setting a spiritual intention can provide a fresh start for 2023.
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Church in the Wild: Evangelism, Discipleship, and Church Planting for the 21st Century
Empower teams to be unleashed in new ways to join the Holy Spirit’s work of evangelism, discipleship, and church planting.
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New People // New Ways
“I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another.”John 13:34 Fresh Expressions UM is a distinctly
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Sharing – Week Four
“Because we loved you so much, we were delighted to share with you not only the gospel of God but our lives as well.”1 Thes 2:8 NIV The final rhythm
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Simplifying – Week Three
While simplifying may seem confining, it is ultimately about finding true freedom. Freedom from the feelings of worry, guilt, and the anxiety inducing consumer culture in which we live.
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The Wounded Healer Grid
Part III In the previous posts I introduced a framework that can help us “go together” on a journey towards becoming wounded healers. In Painting with Ashes, I describe the
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Cultivating Fresh Expressions Amid the Epidemic of Loneliness and Isolation
While we are hyperconnected all the time, trapped in the individualism of the modern condition, never have we been more alone. Isolation and loneliness are the great soul wounds of our time. How can we heal from these wounds?
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