In some research for a project I'm working for at Brooklife, I came across the web-site for Gateway Church in Austin, TX. Besides having some nice graphics and resources on their site, I watched an interesting thing that they did for Easter weekend.They enacted the Prodigal Son parable by intertwining drama, music, and teaching, all …
Discipleship in the Church Today
A friend of mine, Brian Hofmeister, is writing on his blog about discipleship in the church today. Brian is a small groups pastor in Albany, NY, and was at the Exponential 08 conference that I attended last week.Read his comments here.
Relate to … your friends
This past Sunday at Brooklife, I preached a message in our "RELATE" series entitled "Relate to ... your friends." You can listen to the message here.Also, here are two particularly helpful resources that I found when preparing this message that I wanted to pass along to anyone who was interested:Reclaiming Friendship: Relating to Each Other …
Dispatches from Exponential 08, day 3.3
A few thoughts from David Putman, a pastor at Mountain Lake Church and a church planter himself. A lot of his thoughts were drawn from his recent book Breaking the Discipleship Code. You can interact with him at his blog here.His thoughts were oriented around three questions:What is a follower of Jesus?How do people become …
Dispatches from Exponential 08, day 3.2
Just finished a seminar by Darrin Patrick on "Making Vision Stick." Darrin is the Lead Pastor at The Journey in St. Louis and is Vice President of the Acts 29 Church Planting Network out of Mars Hill Seattle. You can read a blog from the pastors at The Journey here.Darrin took the seminar a little …
Matthew Erickson 