Practices
The Way of Mission is something we practice each day — never perfecting, but always at work shaping our lives. Check out the practices section of this website to find ideas for how to practice mission today, tomorrow, and across the rest of your life.
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Breaking The Stupid Rule
There once was a nursing home in a small town. You know how small towns are. Everybody knows everybody, everybody knows who’s in charge, so nothing ever changes, for so long that people stop trying. You know how nursing homes are for...
Wait, What? There’s a Sermon on the Plain, too?
You may have heard of Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount (Matthew 5): Jesus is speaking to a crowd sitting on a hillside. He instructs them with words of wisdom on how to live.
Which Comes First?
Grace, Mission, Hope, or Choice?
Take Up Your Cross
What do you think of when hear “bearing the cross”?
Trading My Sorrows at Friday Church
Amen to trading in our sorrows, laying them down, and rising up again in the joy of the Lord.
The Elder Brother
The context of the story is the Prodigal’s return. But the story ends with the Elder Brother, because it’s directed at the Elder Brother in us all.
Time to Choose
Jesus is the judge of our directions, confirmed for us all to see by returning in resurrection. We can choose our resurrection, too.
John Lewis and Good Trouble
John Robert Lewis just passed away. So many words have been written about him that one more post won’t add much. So just one small thought from his memoir, Walking With the Wind.
Tract Evangelism II: A New Four Spiritual Laws?
I’ve already written in Tract Evangelism I about little, lurid, hellfire-and-brimstone tracts, so hot they warmed the hip pockets of the worn Levi’s that carried them. But they weren’t the only tracts we used.
Tract Evangelism I: Little Lurid Booklets
Tracts and fear have scared a lot of people away from Good News evangelism. Scared away people who ought to find a friend in Jesus.
Jesus Was (And Is) Black
What Mission calling will you pursue that risks falling out with those don’t get it? Will you stand with Black people for racial justice, even if it’s tricky?
The Way, Not The Belief
Given the choice, believing is all right, but following is everything.
Receiving Grace Is Not A Deal With God
Jesus’ parable of the Loving Father (better known as the parable of the Prodigal Son) is a foundation of The Way of Mission. The foundational principle is grace, expressed in family terms.
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