Being More
Leaning up against the towering wooden playground fort, I looked dead center into Joe’s eyes and emphatically said, “Yeah-huh! She kissed me twice and said she hated you.” Joe quickly leaped from the swing and declared, “Well, she kissed me three times and said you’re a poophead.”
This one scene sums up my [...]
Follow me and I will make you fishers of men.
-Jesus
We participate in the means of grace, the faithful discipleship of Jesus,
in order, by the power of the Holy Spirit, to become means of grace,
the agents of God’s reconciliation, in and for our world.
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Hey friends!
The Barefoot Team has put together one more year of $5 Training events. The big announcement this year is that our good friend Mark Oestreicher (www.whyismarko.com) will be leading the workshops in 5 cities in the U.S. and Canada. Watch Marko’s introduction to the [...]
We know that Christian practices are an important part of our discipleship of teenagers. Christian practices form and shape us. They carry the Christian social imagination which captures our desires and informs our beliefs. Ultimately Christian practices are a means of grace that God uses to transform us, body, heart and mind, through the power [...]
Missional.
It’s a buzzword to some. Some call it the latest fad in Christian culture. And some believe it to be a signifier of the redemption of the church in the West.
What’s your stance on the M-Word?
Michael Frost, vice principal of Morling College and the founding director [...]
One of the challenges that I’ve run into in teaching the story of God is that some teenagers don’t explicitly know the elements of a story. Now I know you don’t have to know the technical aspects of story in order for a story to be meaningful. Yet, there is a [...]
