Multiplication or Addition – Which is Your Choice?
Pastor Patrick Badstibner is founder of World Prayr (on Twitter). Pat has been providing us with a monthly blog post, but I’m pleased to be able to present this blog post, the first in a series of four weekly posts by Pat, to our Energion Publications family. Check the World Prayr organization and the World…
Dave Black Returns from Ethiopia
… and he’s already thinking about a new essay: I’m currently writing an essay on missions and finances, particularly the issue of the funding of church planting. I’ve been scouring the Pauline epistles to see what the greatest church planter who ever lived had to say. (Thus far my essay is tentatively titled “The Thessalonian…
March 2010 Bible Study Paths Webzine is Up
The Bible Study Paths Webzine is a new project, edited by Energion Publications co-owner Jody Neufeld. Its purpose is to look at living and learning God’s word where the rubber meets the road, in our daily lives, in prayer, and in service to others. The latest issue features: Missions: Dave and BeckyLynn Black in Ethiopia…
Could the Church Learn from the Cruise Industry?
Kevin at Shooting the Breeze has an interesting post as he returns from a four day cruise. He cites two things that the church could learn from the cruise line industry. Check it out and join the discussion. A commenter included the following video, which I’m embedding here as well. Do you think the church…
Blogging/Essay Contest – 21st Century Church
Energion Publications will host a blogging/essay contest. Entries are open immediately and will close November 2, 2009 when Dr. David Alan Black‘s new book Christian Archy is released. Judging will take place during the first week of November, and winners will be announced by November 16. To enter, simply write an essay in answer to…
Everyone in Ministry
Dave Black has some suggetions, first: How can we provoke one another to love and good deeds in the service of others (Heb. 10:24)? One approach would be to become more proactive in the way we recognize those who are exercising their gifts in the Body. This is something Becky is doing at our church…