Month: December 2008
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Set Brush Fires
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“..it does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush…
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An Atheist Argues that Africa Needs God
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The following article by atheist Matthew Parris, a columnist for the TIMESONLINE, describes his view of how Christianity…
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The Metanarrative and Building Movements Everywhere
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Richard Bauckham in Bible and Mission argues that the biblical narrative always embodies a kind of movement from…
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Movements and Change
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I’ve been researching “social movements” of late and discovered the following definition of movements: “a collective action that…
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Cal Thomas on Movements
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Eric Swanson sent me a link to the editorial below by Cal Thomas. Cal hit on one of…
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Advent Activism
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You might want to check out Scot McKnight’s series on Advent Activism. Here’s an example below: We now…
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Leaders as Initiators
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Reacting is based on instinct and intuition. Responding requires thoughtfulness. Initiating comes from imagination. An atmosphere where people…
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Network Theory and Leadership
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I recently found the series of posts by Steve Pratt on the Leadership Lessons of Web 2.0. I…
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An Old Quote with an Important Truth
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Those who would transform a nation or the world cannot do so by breeding and captaining discontent or…
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The Role of Deliberate Practice in Leadership Development
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Malcolm Gladwell tells us in Outliers that when it comes to success, context is everything. Only by asking…
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Five Marks of Mission
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Mission in the Twenty-First Century: Exploring the Five Marks of Global Mission, edited by Andrew Wall and Cathy…
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Movements Require Kingdom Thinking, not Marketplace Thinking
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In a lot of ways, churches (and ministries/movements, etc.–mine) operate like the marketplace; we keep our ideas and…
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Foretastes of the Kingdom
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our task to create foretastes of [the Kingdom of God] on this planet—living glimpses of what life is…
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George Bailey and Evangelism
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A great article by Steve Sjogren on Evangelism from the Christmas classic: “It’s a Wonderful Life.” Tweet
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World AIDS Day
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Some startling AIDS statistics: -Around the world, a staggering 2.7 million people were infected in 2007 alone. -1…
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Movement Leaders as Heretics
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As one commentator said, Seth Godin’s new book, Tribes, is an enthusiastic endorsement of standing up and taking…
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