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Archive for the Missional Grace Category


Max Lucado: Gabriel’s Questions

These stories-like your favorite Christmas ornaments-come in all shapes and sizes. They unfold in a variety of settings, from ancient Bethlehem to rural England. From a small Texas town to the heavenly realms. Some are short. Others many chapters long. Some offer reflections. Others imagine Christmas through the eyes of a burnt-out candle maker, a lonely business man, or heavenly angels

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Sunday Sanctuary

  Mark Rodel is City Centre Pioneer Minister for the Diocese of Portsmouth and Associate Priest in the parish of St Luke, Southsea. He looks at what has been happening at Sunday Sanctuary. Looking at the terms with which we started out, Sunday Sanctuary has failed. Those terms were that if we created something on […]

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(Media) Messy Nativity Sheep Trail in Liverpool

Fresh Expressions is a movement from England that has “crossed the pond” and they say, taking up residence in the United States in an effort being spearheaded by many YOUNG Virginia Baptist.  One of them is my good friend Chris Backert, who until recently was pastor of “Imago Dei Richmond” (one of the three congregations […]

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Christmas Kindness

Joseph Tkach is a fine theologian and leader, whose writings I greatly enjoy.  Here is a recent note that I greatly appreciated and am happy to share with my blog readers. ————— Now that Halloween and Thanksgiving are behind us, our national attention has turned toward Christmas. Everywhere we look, Christmas is there, dominating television, […]

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Fuzz Kitto’s Church of England miracle

International youth worker, minister, writer and consultant Fuzz Kitto sees Fresh Expressions as a prophetic movement, helping to achieve a ‘miracle’ in the Church of England. Travelling from his home in Sydney, Fuzz meets many people involved in fresh expressions of church across the world. In a specially recorded On demand interview, Fuzz says, What […]

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God is NOT in the Religion Business

“Christianity is not a religion. Christianity is the proclamation of the end of religion, not of a new religion, or even of the best of all religions. If the cross is the sign of anything, it’s the sign that God has gone out of the religion business and solved all of the world’s problems without […]

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4 Ways to Ruin Your Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving is a great holiday. I find that this holiday provides a great time to refresh and recharge for the final push of the year.  I must admit that I have not always maximized this time.  Below I have tips to help you not MESS UP Thanksgiving. 1. Work more than you rest. It is […]

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What I Learned About Marketing In My Seminary Preaching Class!

by Dr. Bill Nieporte The distinguished professor of preaching stood before the class of young “preacher-boys” (and a few “preacher-girls”) and began his lecture. Two decades earlier he’d preached weekly to over 3000 people in his west Texas church. When he “taught” potential preachers how to preach, he spoke as a person of authority. He’d […]

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(Reader) New monasticism and fresh expressions of church

Today’s changing culture calls for a huge diversity and range of fresh expressions of church. Graham Cray explores one particular flavour of fresh expression in an article from the Reader Magazine, November 2011. Anglican priests and parishes have the ‘cure of souls’ of the whole parish, not just of those who go to church. So we at Fresh Expressions […]

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Advent tweets

Every day of advent, Fresh Expressions will be sharing reflections on the coming of Christ and the meaning of Christmas. Please join us on the journey! Follow @freshexpression on  Twitter or  Facebook or view our advent calendar. Featuring tweets from John Sentamu, Juliet Kilpin, Jonny Baker, Andy Frost, Paul Bayes and many more. the word […]

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