We’re kicking off a two week missions series this Sunday as part of the upcoming launch of World Relief NEXT. Among a host of other things that are coming together, the Missions Booklet detailing our philosophy and strategy will be printing in about an hour. I’m pretty excited to have a document that people can […]
The Antioch Kids Art Books arrived this week and will be available starting a week from Sunday. It’s such a cool thing to see… all the artwork from so many different kids who all will be beaming with pride when they see their work in print. I can already see my kids faces when they
I shared a part of a letter in a message this last Sunday at Antioch. It was a letter that I received in response from Eugene Peterson when we were getting ready to plant the church. It had been over a year since I looked at it and somehow I ended up rereading it last
I’m giving a message on Doubt and the Problem of Unbelief this Sunday at Antioch. Tough topic. I think that many are like Dostoevsky who said, “It is not as a child that I believe and confess Jesus Christ. My hosanna is born of a furnace of doubt.” I’ll only be able to scratch the
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The staff is reading through a book right now by Francis Chan called Crazy Love. The book pretty much nails it on the head… so much so, that we made it an “all church” read at Antioch and want as many people to read it as possible. Trust me… if you want to remain the
I came across a statistic on churches this week that was pretty interesting. “85% of churches retain 10% or less of their visitors.” Seems pretty crazy… that means that only 15% of churches connect more than 1 in 10 visitors!! Now I’m sure that some of that is because a lot of people aren’t really
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Today there were 420 people at Antioch. It is the first time there have been over 400 people in a service and I think it is pretty darn cool to see what has happened from two years ago when we started til today. Now I know someone will jump all over this and start accusing
We had a half day staff prayer retreat out in Sisters this morning. It was primarily focused on solitude and I could have stayed out there all day and not minded. For me, there’s nothing more restorative outside of sleep than solitude (and maybe movies!)
Last week Antioch launched a pretty cool ministry to “help parents raise compassionate and mission minded kids.” It is called Mission Kids. Sometimes it is just plain hard for busy parents to find ways to serve alongside their kids or find opportunities to teach them about the needs of others in the world. I’m pretty
Had a full day of meeting with the World Relief folks here in Baltimore. Dan and I are staying in a makeshift room at the offices known affectionately as “Hotel Nicaragua“. The meetings have been amazing and World Relief has some pretty quality people doing some pretty amazing work around the world. Some random thoughts:
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