By Beau Crosetto
I was reading this new book with my kids and I couldn’t stop laughing as I saw the similarities to this “crocodile” and APE leaders.
SPOLIER ALERT: for those who plan to read this on your next vacation 🙂
Standing With A Prophet: Stand With The Victims
By Beau Crosetto
Prophets always die.
They come against majority culture with correction and when you anger the majority culture, you will die…Biblically in a literal sense and today in America in reputation and standing.
Today Zach Hoag has been going off on twitter about the recent conviction of the youth pastor of Covenant Life Church in Maryland for the repeated sexual abuse of three minors (keep reading for details).
https://twitter.com/zhoag/status/466966597476032512
And his prophetic word is not being received and some people are starting to anger.
3 Ways to Overcome Your Anxiety About Jesus at Work
Can’t seem to find the words at work? Let Anthony encourage you.
This is a guest post by Anthony Moore. He is the Director of Business Development at a San Diego Company. He is also a graduate of San Diego State University and was very involved in the InterVarsity ministry I led there for several years. I am so proud of how he is stepping out at work – I had to have him share!
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[you may also like “How to Start a Ministry at Work“]
I worked for a small marketing startup right after I graduated from college. It was difficult.
I worked alongside about 15 guys, and after my first week or so, I had decided that there really wasn’t any room for talk about “Jesus” in the midst of these 20-something-years-old guys whose main hobbies included getting blacked-out drunk and picking up girls at bars.
After a year of nearly nonexistent discussions about God at work, I was told that I was being let go – company restructuring. I felt defeated on every level – like I had missed my chance for Jesus. Again.
Free Book Give Away: “INCARNATE”
This week we are giving away Incarnate: The Body of Christ in an Age of Disengagement
4 COPIES!!!!
see below for all ways to enter
Wind Opens Doors
By Beau Crosetto
Yesterday after a full day of meetings I stopped by the beach to do a walk and prayer time. The wind was blowing incredibly hard for Southern California – it was hard to walk and ocean water was spraying up onto the walkway.
As I was walking, I heard God say to me, “Beau, I am so much more powerful than the strongest wind.”
It caught me off guard and I began to think about the Holy Spirit as wind.
The Invisible Work of God
The Kingdom of Heaven is like yeast…
By Beau Crosetto
Keep Witnessing – Keep Leaning In – God is working.
Just yesterday while I was driving with my neighbor to go play volleyball, he opened up to me again and said,
“Beau, three different times I almost called you from work to tell you ‘Ok, I am ready to have the talk.’”
He continued on to tell me that he knows he needs God in his life but he is just being too prideful. He assured me that we are going to have the talk soon.
Exponential: Let’s Connect & Free Webcast
I am heading to Exponential as we speak and wanted to let you know I will be there and would love to connect if you are there as well. Love meeting people and saying hi, so tweet me or Facebook me if you want to say hi!
- Im part of a panel discussion with James Choung and Shawn Young at 1pm on Wednesday where we will be talking about witness and mission.
- Thursday at 8:45am I will be leading a seminar on turning casual conversations into eternal encounters.
Also, if you can’t make it, they are live webcasting for free. Check it out.
Book Review: Church Zero
By Dr. Mark Convoy
The Church of Jesus Christ sports a 2000 year history, punctuated by breakthroughs, set-backs, catastrophes, and new beginnings. Peyton Jones’s book, “Church Zero” is nothing less than a cry for a hard-boot, restart of the modern evangelical leadership structure. Imagine the gall of an upstart Southern California church planter, calling for nothing less than the restructuring of the modern common highly centralized evangelical church leadership model. Then imagine the possibility that he may be right.
4 Lessons Learned on the Missional Journey
By Laura Hairston
About 4 years ago, my husband, Ryan and I heard the term ‘missional’ for the first time. For us, it was a completely new concept learning to live as missionaries in the places God had already placed us. Also, hearing of the 60% who would never walk through the doors of the church on our best Sunday where we were on staff. And, hey, I grew up a southern Baptist girl in Texas – all of this rocked my world, as I am sure you can imagine.
So, we made a huge paradigm shift and life change.
ReThinking Witness: Creating a Culture for Discipling Skeptics
A blog post about James & my new ebook was written last week highlight a section of our book. If you would like to read an excerpt before downloading, now is your chance.
When it comes to discipling skeptics and seekers, we’ve found that it’s easier for believers to get involved in evangelism when you have an evangelistic community that supports their endeavors. Not only that, they’ll also be more effective. To do that, you need to address the culture of your faith community. How would you change a church culture so that it supported discipling of skeptics and seekers? Here’s a summary of five (download our new eBook, Discipling Skeptics and Seekers,for the full text) of six rhythms that can help:
Read the full article with the five rhythms here.