This past Sunday we were praying over a deep brokenness that had surfaced in the life of one of our friends. He was weeping as we all laid hands on Him and prayed for God’s restoration.

One of the children who is very sensitive to the Spirit and others emotions came over. She made the rounds, giving long tender hugs to each person.

What a powerful demonstration of God’s love and a reason to be thankful for kids in church.

What would seminary and leadership training look like done the “house church way?” Listen to co-founder Jan Cowles talk about “School on the Way.” It exists to train and release teachers for the purpose of equipping house churches for the spontaneous expansion of healthy homes of Jesus within walking distance of every person in Colorado. Click here to view their website.

Like the swinging of a pendulum, it is my observation that those gifts which have been overemphasized in the institutional church have been under emphasized in simple church. Because these gifts have been expressed in the institutional church as the participation of the few with a room full of passive participants, I believe it is difficult for us to imagine them any other way Read the rest of this entry »

One of the defining turning points in my mind when I think of the history of the twelve tribes of Israel was a point of decision. God had, with a mighty hand, led them out of slavery in Egypt, through the mighty red sea, and now into the desert where he would prepare them for their promised land. Read the rest of this entry »

Submitted by TINA COWLES in LAKEWOOD, CO…

“You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.” — C.S. Lewis

Don’t you just love this man? I can’t wait to meet him in heaven. I hope he is really as cool as he’s been made out to be over the last 50 years or so since his death. He hung out in pubs, wrote the Chronicles of Narnia, and was friends with JRR Tolkien who wrote the Lord of the Rings (one of my favorites). And now this quote, which makes him a man after my own heart. Read the rest of this entry »

I am making my way through “Pagan Christianity” by Frank Viola and George Barna. Sadly, I am struck by the myriad of ways that the world converted Christianity, instead of the opposite.

We have absorbed the values and practices of our world Read the rest of this entry »

Submitted by Jessica Hyatt in Aurora…

Deu 6:1   “These are all the commands, laws, and regulations that the Lord your God told me to teach you so you may obey them in the land you are about to enter and occupy,  Read the rest of this entry »

Shared by Roger Therman in Denver…

This is a poignant, stirring, illustrated 6-minute video-report from our friend, Dawson, a house church planter in Kenya .  

I think you will be encouraged (even surprised) by it. (Click on picture below!)

A friend once observed that I knew less of what I was “for” and more of what I was “against” (a criticism). Granted, I have often felt like Don Quixote with a vengeance for spiritual windmills yet I continue to labor over the need to ventilate.

My “stick-in-the-craw” today focuses on whom God chooses. I recently did an article on “The common man/woman”. It apparently hit a nerve in the Christian community as it was reproduced on various blogs around the world. This tells me there is a thirst for truth to be manifest in real life. The commoner wants to be valued and productive yet continues to be restrained by _____________ (you can fill in the blank).

Paul wrote the following to Corinth:

For consider your calling, brethren, that there were not many wise according to the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble; but God has chosen the foolish things of the world to shame the wise, and God has chosen the weak things of the world to shame the things which are strong, and the base things of the world and the despised God has chosen, the things that are not, so that He may nullify the things that are, so that no man may boast before God.

In the worlds system you generally have to be educated, rich, or good looking to gain advantage. (Woe to those of us who are poor, dumb, and ugly!) The unfortunate reality is the church has embraced much of the world’s philosophy. While simple church circles have made great strides away from this mentality, there remains a tainted residue of tilted credential expectation. The educated and eloquent still seem to rise to the surface. There remains a “stage” for those who fit our definitions of success. I have no answers or suggestions. I simply cry out on behalf of all of the “servants in the shadows”. Will their voice be heard at our conferences and retreats, in our books, and on virtual venues? My heart aches to see “the least of these” shine!

poor, dumb, and ugly,

mickey mooney

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