Simply Church

I believe God is taking our thinking beyond the planting of individual simple churches or even networks of churches to movements.  What are the principles of movements?  How can we cooperate with the Holy Spirit in the movements that are taking place in the world today.  It's one of the reasons I'm so excited about… Read More

When I was a teenager, there was a popular satire on TV called "Not so much a Programme–More a Way of Life."  Isn't that a great description of what this life of following Jesus is about?  We are followers of "the Way."  We are not living a cookie-cutter approach to life–a series of rules or… Read More

I'm getting excited about this year's national house church conference.  The theme of the main conference is going to be on Kingdom and movements–both topics I'm passionate about.  I believe the scope of what God is doing across this nation (George Barna's research indicates around 6 million people) could be justifiably called a movement, and… Read More

For two or more years now, I have been having regular conversations with a group of women–all leaders, strategists in the Kingdom.  Our conversation today was on the subject of movements.  What characterizes a movement?  (Examples of movements today would include the GLBT (gay/lesbian etc.) movement and the New Age movement.) Here are some things… Read More

We have just come off the phone with a friend of ours in India who is involved in a CPM there.  He described briefly the events of this last Pentecost Sunday.  They had a goal in their network of 100,000 baptisms on that day.  The results are coming in.  They exceeded their expectations with 285,083… Read More

  Our new book, "The Rabbit and the Elephant," co-authored with George Barna comes out on June 1st.  It has been a two year labor-of-love to write it.  We are asking that if anyone is planning to buy it, they order from Amazon.com.  Here’s their link to the book: http://bit.ly/DFD3k  This will increase our Amazon… Read More

A few months ago, Steve Lyzenga (www.house2harvest.com) did a survey on simple church finances for his doctoral dissertation.  I was on the committee and so had the privilege of seeing some of his results.  One of the results in particular surprised me.  One of the questions he asked was concerning how long the participant's simple… Read More

A few months ago, our son, Tim, who runs a video production company, produced a spoof ad for Frank Viola's book "Pagan Christianity."  Much to my surprise, a few days ago I checked to see how it was doing, and it has been viewed over 25,000 times.  It is hilarious.

Several years ago, a friend from the UK gave Tony and me a prophetic word that we should spend some time speaking over our four kids (now grown) any promises or prophetic words that we had been given for them over the years.  We chose to do that over Easter weekend that year, and all… Read More

I have come across several articles from various sources over the past few weeks that look at where Christianity is going in this country.  They are all in agreement.  There are significant changes occurring that are changing the spiritual face of the nation.  Read them…  and pray. Here are four of them: An article by… Read More