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HUMAN EVENT.
First time ever in Michigan!
October 13-14.
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Join Neil Cole (Organic Church)
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October 15
Troy, Michigan.
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7 DAY IMMERSION.
October 11-17
Troy, Michigan
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A few hours after touching down back in Scotland from The International Mentoring Network’s Immersion experience in Orlando, I found myself in a conversation about a Methodist Church initiative called Holiness and Risk.

Is it okay if I tell you a little about this? It’s a really intriguing kind of thing that can emerge [...]

Tomorrow.  Face it with either fear or anticipation, it doesn’t matter which, it is coming regardless of our grasp of it.  Fortunes have been made marketing knowledge about tomorrow whether that tomorrow is 24 hours away or 100 years distant.

Fortune tellers make the promise that that can allay our fears with their prognostication [...]

In his book, The Message in the Bottle, Walker Percy tells the fictional story of a train that hurried through the countryside. The commuters on board saw the passing scenery as little more than a two-dimensional background rolling past their windows.

One day, though, the train breaks down and the commuters have to disembark by a [...]

As every week begins, many of us look ahead to the next seven days and have a pretty solid expectation of what those days will hold for us.  We head into Monday trying to get back into the grind.  As Wednesday rolls by, we mark the middle of the week.  We anticipate Friday as [...]

What is our point?  And by that question I mean to ask, where are we going?  What are we moving towards?  Is there a destination that we have clearly defined?

Have you ever reflected on your life and realized that at some point along your path you’ve forgotten what you set out to do?  Maybe you [...]

Every one of us, at one point or another, have come to a place of reflection with the conclusion “I should have taken more time to make that decision.”  Usually we arrive here because we realize in the present that while making the decisions that led to this place, we weren’t thinking of the future.  [...]

In this first of a two-part article, we continue our exploration of what it means to be a force of nature (more specifically, a force of creation), and begin to look at how this happens.

10,000 HOURS
In his book, Outliers, Malcolm Gladwell busts some myths surrounding those really talented people who seem to appear out of [...]

Navigating the Maelstrom…of Missional Leadership in Traditional Settings – I am listening to a podcasted Q&A session with Erwin McManus and UK church leaders as I write. One person asks: How do you go about discerning how you can make the best contribution [with your life]?

Erwin’s reply is basically: focus on the things you [...]

Have you ever stood on the edge of a pool and told yourself you are going to jump in?  Then you tell yourself you will jump in when you count to 3.  1…2…3….well, maybe when you count to 10.  Deciding to do something and doing something are two different things.  Very often between the decision [...]