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2008.05.07: Measuring the right things
2008.03.29: Reminded in worship
2008.03.19: Jesus was a failed leader
2008.03.13: The institutional church
2008.03.06: Submit to death
2008.02.21: Jesus remains a stranger
2008.02.14: Was Jesus CEO?
2008.01.30: Has God killed your ministry yet?
2008.01.28: The Entertainment Driven Church
2008.01.03: Know of any "good" churches?
2007.12.24: Blessed Christmas
2007.12.24: The call to come and die
2007.12.13: Satisfied with the church?
2007.12.12: How to have power in your life as a pastor
2007.12.03: All about my personal growth
2007.11.20: The enemy is within
2007.11.14: Consumerism and the church
2007.11.14: Displacing the foolishness of the cross
2007.11.11: Attraction to the messenger, not the message
2007.11.04: A tendency to control the process
2007.10.18: What is lost when pastors deliver shortcuts
2007.10.16: Time to rethink building programs
2007.10.12: Out-of-balance emphasis on leadership
2007.10.09: The Politics of the Kingdom
2007.10.04: Marketing the Gospel
2007.09.05: Rethinking worship evangelism
2007.09.02: Start-ups and appearances
2007.08.22: Contra pragmatism
2007.08.21: Why revitalization is not the answer
2007.08.21: What You Can Learn from Calvin and Hobbes about the Message and the Medium
2007.08.14: The church's attempt to satisfy individual appetites
2007.08.08: A Post-It Theses for these Newfangled Glass Church Doors
2007.08.07: Don't abandon the idea of church
2007.07.31: Crucified church
2007.07.25: Consuming Jesus - Review copy for bloggers
2007.07.02: Capitulating to entertainment
2007.06.22: Patience for the simple ways that work
2007.06.21: Eugene Peterson on state-of-the-art consumer churches
2007.06.13: Organization-speak can't transform the church
2007.06.12: The way of the Christian leader
2007.06.10: Every institution's unstated first goal is to survive
2007.06.06: What we have is faith
2007.06.06: Boasting in weakness
2007.06.05: Thomas à Kempis on Following Jesus
2007.06.04: It's hard to be seeker-sensitive when you work for Jesus
2007.05.17: What the church really needs
2007.05.08: A mirror of the broader culture and its values
2007.05.07: When churches grow best
2007.04.27: Shepherds or CEOs?
2007.04.27: TheHeresy.com
2007.04.26: Ambition and opportunism in ministry
2007.04.24: Save the money spent on a trip to a mega-Church
2007.04.22: Help make the Bride beautiful again
2007.04.19: The Two Christianities part two
2007.04.19: Why missional community is more difficult
2007.04.17: The Two Christianities
2007.04.09: Dying So That We MIght Live
2007.04.05: The underlying issues
2007.03.28: The Sunday experience
2007.03.28: The People formerly known as The Congregation
2007.03.13: 12 shocking facts about the church
2007.03.09: Beyond a greeting card theology
2007.02.20: The Radical Cross: A Lenten Blog
2007.02.12: The arm of flesh
2007.01.29: What can we give to people?
2007.01.19: When the church trades its language
2007.01.13: King Jr. on the Church
2007.01.08: No other purpose
2007.01.08: Beyond attendance, buildings, and cash
2007.01.05: Leadership Blog: Out of Ur: Have We Become Crypto-Christians?
2007.01.01: Church growth and discipleship
2006.12.29: Abandon the consumeristic Christian virus
2006.12.14: Marketing the church?
2006.12.06: Questions about "Mega Church" ecclesiology
2006.12.06: We need a theological vision, not pragmatism
2006.11.29: To create an earthly thing
2006.11.27: Pastoral ambition
2006.11.23: What needs to change
2006.11.23: No more solutions
2006.11.22: Something is wrong
2006.11.22: Is there more to building a church?
2006.11.21: Failing its basic mission
2006.11.18: Comments working again
2006.11.08: A church starts all over again
2006.11.07: Random thoughts on Haggard and Evangelicalism"
2006.11.05: Busyness and pastors
2006.11.02: Branding the church
2006.11.01: A quivering mass of availability
2006.10.31: Ordained to give itself away
2006.10.23: Being in the Church, Not of It
2006.10.22: Abandoning their posts
2006.10.19: Praying For God's Spirit To Sit This One Out
2006.10.19: The Church You Know
2006.10.11: Bored with God?
2006.10.08: The system we've put together
2006.10.04: Pastoral ambition
2006.10.02: What we do flows from who we are
2006.10.01: God has not promised us safety
2006.09.25: bible.org: What Must Change Now
2006.09.18: What the church needs now
2006.09.18: Destroying the way of Jesus in the ways we do church
2006.09.13: A rock concert followed by a comedian
2006.09.07: "Come die with us"
2006.09.06: What Causes Atheism?
2006.09.05: Quitting church to follow Jesus
2006.08.31: Back from my break with resources
2006.06.26: Gone fishing
2006.06.23: Pastors and addiction
2006.06.19: Kingdom business
2006.05.25: Churches must learn to die
2006.05.06: If Jesus Had a Church
2006.05.05: Bonhoeffer still speaking
2006.05.04: New book review: O Shepherd, Where Art Thou?
2006.04.05: Martin Luther on Pastors
2006.04.04: Church Advertising is a Waste of Time
2006.03.07: The danger of the institutional church
2006.03.02: Experience Church, Stripped Down
2006.02.28: Losing the brightest and the best
2006.02.28: The church that lives for itself
2006.02.21: Jesus never hurries
2006.02.08: Organic Church
2006.02.08: Rediscovering the stories
2005.12.30: He is not tame
2005.12.29: internetmonk.com » Theology In Fazoli’s
2005.12.19: The Great Giveaway
2005.12.19: Learn at the feet of a farmer
2005.12.15: Organic Church
2005.12.15: Using what's ridiculous
2005.12.08: The gospel says
2005.12.04: The scandal of the church
2005.12.01: Why I'm Not Missional
2005.11.22: Growing bigger
2005.11.17: The way becoming clearer
2005.11.02: Authenticity and Pedro
2005.11.02: Why Young Pastors Leave the Ministry
2005.11.01: Jesus would not qualify for membership in many of our churches
2005.10.31: Why pastors leave
2005.10.26: I was wrong part 5
2005.10.25: Track Two
2005.10.25: robbymac: Detoxing From Church
2005.10.24: Two Tracks
2005.10.23: The greatest crisis
2005.10.23: Faster horses
2005.10.22: I believe
2005.10.22: i was wrong
2005.10.22: Redefining success
2005.10.21: Staying at the ice cream store
2005.10.20: The future is invading the present
2005.10.20: Quitting the ice cream store
2005.10.19: The parable of the ice cream store
2005.10.18: Why I started dying church
2005.10.18: Where is God?
2005.10.17: The end of years of angst
2005.10.05: Where in the world is the church?
2005.10.04: Saddest blog post I've read
2005.08.18: Measuring success
2005.08.04: Incarnational vs. Attractional mission
2005.08.02: The professionalization of the pastoral ministry
2005.07.31: Leadership Journal on Spiritual Transformation
2005.07.12: Pastors
2005.07.11: jason clark: What's wrong with Christians?
2005.06.15: How does it profit one to build a great church, but lose the community?
2005.06.15: What Good Is It?
2005.06.10: Screwtape: Make it big!
2005.06.08: Embezzlement: The Corporate Sin of Contemporary Christianity?
2005.06.08: Jesus Outside the Box
2005.05.17: Brian McLaren: Is Renewal Enough?
2005.04.28: Maintenance and mission
2005.04.14: The internally driven leader
2005.04.12: If revival comes
2005.03.27: Wonder
2005.03.25: "Good" Friday
2005.03.24: Maundy Thursday
2005.03.23: Dig a well
2005.03.11: Not in the church business
2005.03.07: Peterson on the institutional church
2005.02.20: What is a missional community?
2005.02.13: the church
2005.01.25: Reaction to Stafford's article
2005.01.24: Dying to grow
2005.01.18: Church vs. kingdom
2005.01.06: The Church � Why Bother?
2005.01.02: Jesus: model for missional ministry
2005.01.01: Under new management, sort of
2004.11.16: The missional church
2004.11.14: Radical generosity
2004.11.05: The market-driven church
2004.10.26: Jesus died for this?
2004.10.21: The fight for self-preservation
2004.10.21: Buildings and money
2004.10.04: Consumerism
2004.09.22: Weak leaders
2004.09.22: Let us be honest, we don't know how to fix the church
2004.09.11: Institution or outpost?
2004.09.09: Churches are not cool
2004.09.08: Deep Change
2004.09.04: Don't fear Institution
2004.09.03: Waiting for something
2004.08.30: Foster's 7 lessons
2004.08.26: Tension
2004.08.24: What would happen?
2004.08.23: Role of a pastor
2004.08.22: Die to self, love the bride
2004.08.22: Dying to our religious consumerism
2004.08.20: Hacking the church
2004.08.20: Form matters
2004.08.14: Right and wrong questions
2004.08.11: Our missional assignment
2004.08.07: Pastors and the E-Myth
2004.08.06: Words are confusing
2004.08.02: Teeth and claws
2004.07.30: Why efforts to renew the church are often misguided
2004.07.30: Why I stopped going to church
2004.07.11: Too much of how we
2004.07.09: Dangerous Wonder
2004.07.07: Questions I'm asking
2004.07.05: Our responsibility
2004.07.05: The writing on the wall
2004.07.02: The power of weakness
2004.07.02: We're back
2004.05.26: Death of a church
2004.05.08: The dying pastor
2004.05.03: Orbiting the Giant Hairball
2004.04.29: Why people don't live the Gospel
2004.04.28: Stop turning your back
2004.04.08: It's not about the pastor
2004.04.08: The Dying Church and Easter
2004.04.06: Remember the prophets
2004.03.30: Lots of quotes; little original content
2004.03.30: Church lifecycles
2004.03.30: Christianity and our happiness
2004.03.30: "Jesus himself would have no place in our all-too-respectable churches"
2004.03.24: Giving up on church
2004.03.18: Stuck and loving it
2004.03.17: I want to die...
2004.02.20: What does it mean to follow Jesus?
2004.02.18: Reclaiming the cross
2004.02.18: It's not about the emerging church
2004.01.31: Measuring Sundays
2004.01.29: A great challenge
2004.01.27: New contributor
2004.01.27: Leaver sensitive
2004.01.26: All the effort to fix the church misses the point
2004.01.26: We don't want to die
2004.01.26: New design
2004.01.24: Creech on pastors
2004.01.24: Functional atheism
2004.01.24: From the Worldwide Faith News
2004.01.22: The future of the established church
2004.01.15: Christianity with a low bar
2004.01.14: The church in trouble?
2004.01.03: Keep asking
2004.01.02: Living faith where it counts
2003.12.27: The question
2003.12.26: Get back to basics
2003.12.26: More on church leavers
2003.12.24: Where from here?
2003.12.23: Subversive
2003.12.19: Stories of Emergence
2003.12.17: Come to church?
2003.12.13: Nothing to lose
2003.12.12: Exciting worship
2003.12.11: Embrace healing
2003.12.11: Just for the cameras
2003.12.10: Celebrating Christmas
2003.12.06: You too?
2003.12.04: That's not a church
2003.12.03: Subversive leaders
2003.12.02: AIDS
2003.11.27: Quirky, unpredictable, uncontrollable, uncool, seemingly unstable, and in every way alive
2003.11.27: The test
2003.11.24: Selling the church vs. lifting up Jesus
2003.11.22: Saints of the Dying Churches
2003.11.21: Total and complete misunderstanding of the Gospel
2003.11.20: Exploding the heroic leader myth
2003.11.20: Worship services
2003.11.20: The value of cynicism
2003.11.18: Church health isn't the point
2003.11.17: To follow Jesus
2003.11.12: The Present Future
2003.11.10: Is this what you call a master plan?
2003.11.06: Metaphors and models
2003.11.03: What it's about
2003.10.31: Getting over itself
2003.10.30: Sign of fallenness
2003.10.27: The Real Business of Clergy
2003.10.24: Bible belt
2003.10.22: Terminology and Understanding
2003.10.20: My job
2003.10.10: Offering machine
2003.10.09: 'not much different from the Kiwanis'
2003.10.08: Community
2003.10.08: Will pastor for free
2003.10.05: Prosperity vs the Cross
2003.10.05: The Transformation of American Religion
2003.10.03: Single greatest threat
2003.10.01: Interview with Eugene Peterson
2003.09.30: Cookbook Christianity
2003.09.30: Finding faith in the church
2003.09.29: Why people leave the church
2003.09.28: Idolatry
2003.09.28: Maybe for the church?
2003.09.25: Things that congregants never ask...
2003.09.25: Where was the church?
2003.09.25: Beyond the Box
2003.09.23: Enough
2003.09.22: Fatal flaw
2003.09.21: Baalism
2003.09.20: Religious complexity
2003.09.18: Syncretism
2003.09.14: Church pundit sites
2003.09.13: Revolve NT
2003.09.13: Can churches change?
2003.09.13: Jesus is the man of small numbers
2003.09.12: Counter-cultural pastoral life
2003.09.11: Old wineskins
2003.09.11: What about Hannah?
2003.09.11: The Church Matters
2003.09.10: Points of revolution
2003.09.10: Tithing
2003.09.08: What it looks like
2003.09.07: Every church is dying
2003.09.05: Paradox
2003.09.04: Church Models
2003.09.03: Willowback
2003.08.30: When do you apply faith to life?
2003.08.28: Charisma
2003.08.12: No Busses...
2003.08.05: The Mystic as Leader
2003.07.31: Be an Abraham and take a risk
2003.07.30: The intended church?
2003.07.29: The Kingdom
2003.07.29: Our institutional weakness
2003.07.28: Slow remedies
2003.07.26: Grow Up!
2003.07.26: Time to test your hearing...
2003.07.24: Crawling back
2003.07.24: Counterpoint
2003.07.23: God uses weakness
2003.07.23: I was hungry...
2003.07.23: We were searching for glory
2003.07.23: Death of a giant
2003.07.21: What the modern church offers
2003.07.17: The problem with preaching
2003.07.15: For a moment, never mind the structures
2003.07.12: Subversive
2003.07.12: Is working in a church a hindrance to your spiritual development?
2003.07.12: The message and ministry of Christ
2003.07.12: Style over substance
2003.07.10: Church Staff and Healthy Relationships
2003.07.06: Poor or Rich
2003.07.03: Heart issues
2003.07.02: A packaged church?
2003.06.30: It's Not About Us
2003.06.29: Jars of Clay
2003.06.26: New contributor
2003.06.26: The church can't be fixed with tools
2003.06.26: Another contributor
2003.06.25: A better kind of vision
2003.06.24: Pastoring advice from Bill Easum
2003.06.24: The gift of oddness
2003.06.24: Common ground
2003.06.24: Congregational expectations
2003.06.23: Elephants vs. rabbits
2003.06.23: SimChurch
2003.06.23: How much fat is in your diet?
2003.06.22: Like a fish out of water
2003.06.21: People vs. structure
2003.06.21: What is a dying church?
2003.06.20: None of them are churches
2003.06.19: You want a piece?
2003.06.19: The basic issue
2003.06.18: Doesn't like it
2003.06.18: "No wonder why Len Sweet
2003.06.17: Liquid Church
2003.06.17: Holy leaders, holy places
2003.06.17: Living sacrifices
2003.06.17: Emergent pastors
2003.06.16: Pastor Kevorkian
2003.06.14: Examples of dying churches
2003.06.14: Welcome
2003.06.14: Travel light

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