Posted in Bible Teaching, Doctrine / Theology, Misc Books, Misc Topics, The Living Church, tagged Calvary Chapel, church growth, Church Planting, Emergent Church, Emerging Christianity, Evangelism, John Stott, missional, Modernism, Postmodernism, Purpose Driven, The Living Church on July 16, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Every good book describing a healthy church covers at least Acts 2:42-47 and this one is no different.
Here in Chapter 1 John Stott covers what he calls the essential marks of a living church hence the title Essentials.
On the outset he describes a 3 – fold commitment.
We are committed to the church
We are committed to [...]
Posted in Misc Books, Misc Topics, The Living Church, tagged Calvary Chapel, church growth, Church Planting, Emergent Church, Emerging Christianity, Evangelism, John Stott, missional, Modernism, Postmodernism, Purpose Driven, The Living Church on July 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
For my birthday I received a gift card to a local Christian Bookstore so I went and picked out a few books. The Living Church: Convictions of a Lifelong Pastor by John Stott (IVP, 2007) seemed like a good buy.
I respect John Stott as a doctrinally sound thinker enough to want to hear (read) what [...]
Posted in Bible Teaching, Discipleship, Doctrine / Theology, tagged bible study, Bible Teaching, Calvary Chapel, Church Planting, Discipleship, doctrine, fundamentals, Jim Goodman, new believers, theology on June 19, 2009 | 4 Comments »
I drafted a series for the new believers we had that would explain the foundations of the faith. These outlines became core cirriculum in our discipleship groups. Recently I was contacted for the electronic copy of those outlines and rolled them up into a single pdf which is free for downloading here
http://faithandinches.files.wordpress.com/2009/06/bbd_outline_book.pdf
They are written from [...]
Posted in Last Days, Misc Topics, tagged apostasy, Calvary Chapel, Christian Living, Christianity, contemplation, contemplative spirituality, deeper life, Discipleship, Emergent Church, end times, false religion, jesus, Last Days, light house trails, lighthouse trails, Lighthouse Trails Research, meditation, mysticism, neo-monasticism, new age, new earth, tolle on November 22, 2008 | 5 Comments »
The truth of God’s Word is being lost in a labyrinth of new spirituality, pseudo spirituality and inter spirituality. I shouldn’t say lost God’s Word because it is still there, but the passion and relevancy it once held in the life of the church is becoming lost.
Matthew 24:4-5
And Jesus answered and said to them: “Take [...]
Posted in Bible Teaching, Discipleship, Doctrine / Theology, Jim' Daily Journal, Misc Topics, tagged Bible Teaching, Calvary Chapel, Christian Living, contemplation, contemplative spirituality, deeper life, Discipleship, Emergent Church, light house trails, lighthouse trails, Lighthouse Trails Research, meditation, mysticism, psalms on November 17, 2008 | 3 Comments »
There is a lot of confusion about Biblical Contemplation. Some are tossing the baby out with the bath water.
This teaching, of mine, is from taken from Psalm 119:9-16 and was given on a Sunday morning in early 2007 after I learned about a movement known as the Emergent Church and the concern we were heading [...]
Posted in Bible Teaching, Misc Books, Misc Topics, tagged Calvary Chapel, Christianity, church growth, community, Emergent Church, incarnational, missional, postmodern, Robert Lewis, The Church of Irresistable Influence on October 29, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Continuing in part one of the book, Lewis furthers his assessment that church leaders are often overwhelmed at the size of this chasm detailed in the previous post. Because of that some pastors and lay leaders will in a sense see the task as impossible and running back to what Lewis calls ‘fallback methodology” as [...]
Posted in Jim' Daily Journal, Misc Topics, tagged Calvary Chapel, Christianity, church growth, Emergent Church on October 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Alas fall is here and it is getting colder outside. The real upside is the firewood is neatly stacked and ready for the fireplace! Apple, Mulberry, Cherry, Oak to name a few. Each wood adds a uniqueness to the fireplace, some like apple release a beautiful fragrance, Oak and the other varieties I have burn [...]
Posted in Jim' Daily Journal, tagged bible study, Calvary Chapel, Discipleship, faith, Jim Goodman, preaching on September 9, 2008 | 3 Comments »
For the first time in over a year and a half I stood before the congregation and preached my first sermon.It was different than any teaching I ever gave before. The study didn’t come easy and I went to the pulpit with very few notes and unorganized thoughts. The feedback I received was that it [...]
Posted in Misc Topics, tagged apostasy, Bible, Calvary Chapel, charasmatic, Christianity, discernment, doctrine, Emergent Church, Emerging Christianity, end times, faith, gifts of the Spirit, Last Days, miracles, prayer, prophecy, revival, signs and wonders, spirtual warfare, theology on March 4, 2008 | 2 Comments »
The latest person to come back from the dead
http://www1.wsvn.com/features/articles/specialreport/MI75423
Seems in recent years there has been an ever increasing number of instances. A few weeks ago in California a 6 year old boy without a heartbeat for 2 hours, a man in a traffic accident awoke in a morgue, an elderly woman who was taken off [...]
Posted in Bible Teaching, Misc Topics, tagged Calvary Chapel, disciple, leadership, ministry, praise and worship, worship, worship leading on February 28, 2008 | 21 Comments »
The worship ministry is vital to church growth and to the growth of each individual believer. For church planters finding a worship leader with a heart for worship is tough and a common complaint. Sometimes you end up in a position of having to make do with the default guy/girl who happens to play an [...]
