The WOMB Life Coaching Center is a growing Church that started one year ago. In keeping with the original vision of the church, Pastor XX (a black pastor) is seeking a co-pastor (a white pastor) to work completely co-equally with to show forth a demonstration of unity to the Body of Christ.

ps not actually called Pastor double-X!!!

Philip Yancey

A Twitter-based Easter challenge for those who tweet!

Great truth:- Generousity is what keeps the things I own from owning me.

A funny dilemma that is surely worthy of eternally-pet-consideration?!!

Faith journeys is a helpful partnership project worth a look….

Ouuuuuuuuch about this new face-representative….??! surely not?!

Five Big Issues facing the western church, according to Tim Keller. Challenging but utterly realistic stuff….. and the Redeemer response: the priority of church to make culture and transformation!

Jason Clarke is starting out a series of brilliant Vineyard reflections on their ‘denominational’ distinctives.

Fun, wisdom and spiritual-direction! Follow the Spirits leading & have fun!!

“So, why church? The short answer is because the Holy Spirit formed it to be a colony of heaven in the country of death” (p11-12).

The church, Peterson says, is those people who practice the resurrection of Christ in the country of death.

Sure, he admits, the church isn’t all it seems it should be but he makes this observation: “Maybe God knows what he is doing, giving us church, this church” (14). Peterson thinks Ephesians gives us a behind-the-scenes look at what church is.

“Sometimes we hear our friends talk in moony, romantic terms of the early church. ‘We need to get back to being just like the early church.’ Heaven help us. These churches were a mess, and Paul wrote his letters to them to try to clean up the mess” (p16).

“And what comes clear,” in this letter to the Ephesians, “is that church is not what we do; it is what God does, although we participate in it” (p17).

But “we don’t read Ephesians as a picture of a ‘perfect church’ to which we compare our congregations and try to copy what we see. Rather, we read Ephesians as the revelation of all the operations of the Triune God that are foundational beneath what is visible among us and at work throughout each congregation. This is what makes us what we are, however imperfectly or neurotically we happen to be living it out” (p17-18).

from Petersons, Practice the Resurrection

The mission of the church is to love Jesus.
Everything else is just strategy.

How are you and I doing in this loving-Jesus business?