Category: Resources
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Book Review: Primal by Mark Batterson
I recently received a pre-release copy of Mark Batterson’s new book, Primal: A Quest for the Lost Soul of Christianity. Can I be honest? I was a little skeptical. I mean, I enjoyed his first book: In a Pit with a Lion on a Snowy Day. But a lot of “Christian living” books are all…
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Maximizing output
Life is usually a juggling act. I have to balance a lot of things at the same time, and I’m sure you do, too. For me, balancing work, school, home, other work, friendships, hobbies and more means something always gets less attention than it really should. Here’s something I’m learning. Sometimes productivity is really about…
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Coffee Recon
Being a guy interested in church planting, if I’m near a church I’ve heard about, I have to visit and see what they’re up to. We had the chance to visit National Community Church’s service at Union Station and their coffee house this weekend. I’m a huge fan of NCC’s coffee shop/meeting space/office space approach…
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Worth reading: Missional churches and conferences galore
+ Scott Hodge is posting some thoughts from Q in Atlanta. If you haven’t heard of it, it’s a conference similar to TED but with a Christian emphasis. This is a conference I would have loved to attend – even qualified for a scholarship. But it was still a little out of reach price-wise. Maybe…
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My favorite spots for graphics
Although I do graphic design a lot less now than I used to, every once in a while I have to put together something that looks nice. And that thing that looks nice is typically low budget. So for those of you who may not have seen ’em, here are my top three stock photo…
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Isn’t She Beautiful?
Joshua Longbrake posted some of his notes from Mars Hill’s Isn’t She Beautiful? conference. It looks like a good snapshot of the event. +the art of space //”get in the boat.” _Jesus to His disciples //Jesus was constantly getting away. sitting by a lake. praying on a mountain side. in a boat. people would…
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Fuller and the Vietnam War
I wrote a piece for Fuller’s campus paper that was published this week about the response at the seminary to the Vietnam War. It was interesting to talk with some of the people who were on campus at the time and hear how one of the protests impacted their lives. We even spoke about how…
Jon Sampson 