We hear an awfully lot these days about the words “emerging” and “misssional.” They in some degree are the same and yet at the core very different.
The sameness is their attempts to express in new terms and paradigms, the same eternal, timeless truths that have made Christianity and the concept of a worshiping church a [...]

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Some things come on the scene and just stick. Others just slide on by, like on ice. What is it about a brand, a service, an organization, a person, an artist, a band, musician, or a leader that makes them sticky? Here are what seem to me to be three essentials.
1. They [...]

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Life is short. You can’t afford to waste any of it. And yet too many people do, living in what I call LaLa Land. The land of “someday, maybe, if so, well I’ll get around to it.” Here are ten signs that you’re living in LaLa Land and you need to get out as soon [...]

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You’ve heard it said that attitude is everything. Well, it is almost everything, and the almost makes all the difference. What is the almost that’s missing, even if you have a great attitude? It’s competency. You must be competent. Happy, excited, motivated, smiling people who really suck at what they do, still [...]

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Today @ The Gathering we completed our series “Angry in America,” with the message entitled, “Anger Can Be a Beautiful Thing.”
In spite of what the myths about anger try to teach us, anger can be a beautiful thing. That has to be true because Jesus was angry. We know that he was upset when the [...]

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Tim Stevens is the x-pastor @ Granger Community. He had this great perspective on how far this whole “leadership thing” should expend into your life.
I think that leadership translates beyond your professional career. A real leader pays attention to his/her marriage, gives time to his/her kids, and invests in relationships that matter. A real [...]

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“It is extraordinary power from God, not talent, that wins the day. It is extraordinary spiritual unction not extraordinary mental power, that we need. Mental power may fill a chapel but spiritual power fills the church with soul anguish. Mental power may gather a large congregation. but only spiritual power will save souls. What we [...]

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Today @ The Gathering we continued our series, “Angry in America,” with the message entitled “What to Do When Angry People Come After You.”
Too many of us think that Christianity is just about being right with God; about forgiveness of sin, and about going to heaven when we die. We have a very narrow, one-dimensional [...]

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With oil going over $105.00 a barrel this week, I am reminded of a trend that is arising partly out of necessity and partly out of the new possibilities. That trend is the tendency for the brightest and best among us to opt out of a 9 to 5 job where you are locked up [...]

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Things change. But whether they change for the better or not depends on what people do; not just any kind of people, but angry people. Yes, you heard it right. It’s angry people who change the world. Comfortable, satisfied, stuck-in-a-rut, trying-to-protect-my-turf people don’t change the world. They nurse the status quo, which I’ve heard is [...]

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