Living Mulch: An Organic Illustration of Churches and Church Networks

We’ve been gardening in our backyard, (loosely) following the biointensive farming method in John Jeavons’ book How to Grow More Vegetables. There’s a lot to learn from the organic analogies in the Bible (e.g. mustard seed, sowing seed, parables involving farmers and farming, sheep and shepherds…). Likewise, I think there’s a lot to learn from organic . . . → Read More: Living Mulch: An Organic Illustration of Churches and Church Networks

Mystery Brought to Light Through the Church

8 To me, though I am the very least of all the saints, this grace was given, to preach to the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ, 9 and to bring to light for everyone what is the plan of the mystery hidden for ages in God who created all things, 10 so that through the church . . . → Read More: Mystery Brought to Light Through the Church

Gutenberg to Google

“Will there be any Christians in Heaven?” read the provocative title of Leonard Sweet’s talk last week at GGBTS.  Sweet, known for his future-oriented thinking and his challenges to the church to become what it was meant to be, came to the seminary to talk to a bunch of us who are wrestling with what . . . → Read More: Gutenberg to Google