There are many great simple church minded blogs our there - the following is an incomplete listing. To help you get acquainted with the authors, we feature several blogs below, with the start of the last three post shown for easy skimming.
BOLD indicates the blog is currently featured below
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OIKOS Australia
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| Encouraging Home Churches |
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Audio of Adelaide event with Tony & Felicity Dale
The audio from the day and evening with the Dale’s last Friday (27th) is up on the starfishoz website. ( www.starfishoz.com.au) You can either click on the photo of Tony and felicity, or go directly via this link http://starfishoz.com.au/?p=485
We have received many comments about the accessibility and relevance of Tony...
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Reflections on the visit of Tony and Felicity
I went to the Wednesday session in Melbourne and Tony and Felicity both spoke. They spoke about the difference they could see between established Church and House Church. One thing that struck a cord with me was that Tony mentioned a lack of intimacy which I have noticed appears to...
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From Tony and Felicity….
This is a section from their latest e-letter, mentioning their time in Australia.
Then came a whistle-stop tour of Australia. Towomba (outside Brisbane), followed by Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide and finally Perth, in Western Australia. Six days of meetings in nine days in a country of this size leaves little time for...
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Reimagining Church
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| The Blog of Frank Viola |
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Longing for the Endless Immensity
A friend recently sent one of my co-workers and I this note which included a wonderful quote. Here’s what she wrote: “If you want to build a ship, don’t herd people together to collect wood and don’t assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the...
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An Analysis of “Why We Love the Church” by DeYoung & Kluck
On Monday’s blog, I talked about misrepresentations. It was the prelude to yesterday’s post and today’s post. Yesterday, I published Jon Zens’s analysis of Jim Belcher’s “Deep Church.” Today’s post features an analysis written by Eric Hilliard (one of Amazon’s most sophisticated book reviewers) on the book WHY WE LOVE...
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An Analysis of Jim Belcher’s “Deep Church”
On yesterday’s blog, I talked about misrepresentations. And I appreciated the kind and insightful comments on that post. Some observed that this was a very different way of looking at and responding to misrepresentation. It’s yet another example of how the Lord’s value system and way of observing things is...
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SimpleChurch Journal aka House Church Blog
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| House church blog, house church, simple church, organic church, simple church journal, simplechurch journal, interactive on house churches, church planting, emerging church. Developing a house church or simple church network. Understand the new wineskins and share practical ideas.
House, church, blog, simple, home, emerging, new, wineskins, networks, spiritual, mentor, early, worship, churches, plant, Jesus |
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4,000 Churches Planted in 3 Years in Ethiopia
My thanks to David Watson for passing along Dave Hunt’s dissertation (Download 2009huntcpmdissertation) on church planting movements in East Africa. There is so much of Hunt’s experiences that I relate to, albeit on a smaller scale and budget, that I...
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USA Today on House Church
It's always fun to see the national media take note of house churches. This a very well done article. Here are a couple of excerpts: The members of this "house church" are part of what experts say is a fundamental...
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Online Simple/House Church Course Now Available
Our next online course is now available for registration. We limit the course to 15 participants on a first come, first served basis. The goal of this course is for participants to discover more fully God's story and the nature...
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subversive1
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| Keith Giles is an author, blogger and freelance copywriter in Orange County, California.
WHAT IS SUBVERSIVE? It’s a systematic overthrow of one system or power by those working from within.
Jesus said the Kingdom of God was immediately accessible to all who follow Him. This is the Gospel message. This is subversive. |
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OUR IDEA OF KNOWING GOD VS GOD'S IDEA OF KNOWING HIM
Our idea of knowing God:
To study the Bible and to learn as much as we can about His character and His covenant and how it all fits together.
God’s idea of knowing Him:
"He defended the cause of the poor and needy, and so all went...
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OUR IDEA OF WORSHIP VS GOD'S IDEA OF WORSHIP
Our idea of Worship:
To close our eyes and lift our hands and to sing songs about Jesus for as long as possible in order to express to God our intense feelings of love and gratitude for His goodness to us.
God's idea of Worship:
"Therefore,...
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OUR IDEA OF FASTING VS GOD'S IDEA OF FASTING
Our idea of Fasting:
To abstain from food or water (or any other activity) for a set amount of time in order to pray and hopefully find an answer to our prayers or hear God’s voice for direction concerning a specific issue or question.
God’s...
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Simply Church: A House Church Perspective
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| An insider look at the simple/organic church movement |
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Why Jesus worked with groups
Having written the last post on how Jesus trained his disciples, yesterday I came across a key point that I had missed. I discovered it on the blog of Paul Watson (http://bit.ly/cqS21C ). His premise is that "Jesus discipled groups." Obviously he had one-on-one interactions with individual disciples, but most...
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Jesus' pattern of discipleship
My apologies if you get this post twice. I've had a couple of people tell me that it came out in Greek! Hopefully this is now corrected. How did Jesus train his disciples? · He shared the rough and tumble of everyday life with them (Luke 8:1-3) · He asked...
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Jesus' pattern of discipleship
Ho How did Jesus train his disciples? He shared the rough and tumble of everyday life with them (Luke 8:1-3) He asked them questions to show them what they needed to learn (Matthew 16:13-20) He answered their questions (eg Matthew 17:19-20) He demonstrated the practical skills they needed to know...
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Tall Skinny Kiwi
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| The ORIGINAL global Christianity blog: since 2001 |
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A smooch and a free massage for our sponsors
So I woke up this morning to see someone on Twitter raising funds for Those Joneses and then I realized . . What the heck??? . . Thats OUR family!!!!! What a surprise!!! And not only that, but the website...
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We are coming to USA: Need your help!
Big news! Our family is returning to USA for a coast to coast tour, starting late September in New York and going down, then westward through Texas, up to Oregon and down the West Coast. Why now? Well, it is...
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How Many People Attended the 'Restoring Honor' Rally?
Thousands of people gathering around a large vertical object to discuss plans of posterity. NO, I am not talking about the Tower of Babel. I'm talking about Glenn Beck's Restoring Honor rally at Washington DC last weekend. The event was...
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