Last week I was in New Orleans for the Christian Community Development Association (CCDA) annual conference. Being in New Orleans, Tamara and I took the opportunity to hear some real, authentic, home-grown jazz. As I found out, these days you don’t look for jazz on Bourbon Street, you find it just outside the tourist block […]
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“Man is never truly himself except when he is actively creating something.” – Dorothy Sayers This week at Antioch we started our new Innovation series. What is creativity? Is it spiritual? Is it a mandate? Is it theological? I will be teaching a course this Fall at Kilns College on this very topic. The course — A Theology of Creativity,
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The Antioch Way is what we’ve come to call our ministry expression. With the understanding that all things are for the glory of God, we commit to pursue all that we do with excellence, creativity, and passion. And in a submissive posture with regard to vision and planning such that we position ourselves to follow God rather than
This past Sunday at Antioch I talked about the four commitments of Antioch. We call them commitments because we truly want to make sure they are central to everything we do, not just beliefs or principles that sit on a shelf. Our name and our commitments are derived from the church at Antioch as described
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I’m excited that this coming Sunday we start a four-part sermon series at Antioch called INNOVATION. Change is a normal part of life and even a strategic element in our calling as Christians. In the INNOVATION Series we will look at the ways creativity, leadership and culture shaping intersect with our individual calling and the
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The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves. – Victor Hugo
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It can be a hard thing to equip people in our congregations to do the work of the church. It can be harder to engage them, raise them up and give away ownership than going to the same few people to get things done. But we want to empower the congregation so that there is
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Guest Post by Sam Adams It was a hunch that led me to propose a course titled, “Ethics of Søren Kierkegaard and Dietrich Bonhoeffer” for the new Kilns College MA in Social Justice. I knew enough about both thinkers to know that it would be interesting to read them together but what I didn’t realize
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Last weekend I camped next to this beautiful lake with the Antioch church family. We truly live in a beautiful part of the country. I’m thankful for all God’s blessings and the Antioch community!
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Have you heard? People are leaving the church. It seems that every year a study is released that shows Christianity is shrinking and “non religion” is the fastest growing religious category. We analyze surveys to figure out way, we write blogs and books to explain it and make recommendations about how the church should change.
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