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The truck had arrived. The concrete pour was on. Three carpenters and a builders labourer downed tools and grabbed a wheelbarrow. I was the builder’s labourer.

After twenty minutes you pay by the minute for the truck to wait. The pace was frantic. Barrows lined up. One by one they are filled. I took off down [...]

A 226 page study of Pentecostalism in ten different nations (Brazil, Chile, Guatemala, India, Kenya, Nigeria, Philippines, South Africa, South Korea, US): Spirit and Power

Worth a look if you think you can learn something from the world’s fastest growing church planting movement.

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Self-deception actually determines one’s experience in every aspect of life.

An infant is learning to crawl. She begins by pushing herself backward around the house. Backing herself around, she gets lodged beneath the furniture. There she thrashes about—crying and banging her little head against the sides and undersides of the pieces.

She is stuck and hates it. [...]

Ralph Moore launched four new churches this year. Here’s how he describes the cost of church planting.

The Price You Pay
Every time we multiply our church with a new church plant it costs us something. Be it money, nearness of friends, holes in the staff or other intangibles; there is always a cost. But, that is [...]

It took $US250 million to lure David Beckham to sign with the Los Angeles Galaxy. He is already being touted as the saviour of US soccer. I wonder.

Christian ministries have a David Beckham saviour mentality to leadership development and selection. Hire a superstar and our success is assured. I wonder.

I prefer AC Milan’s approach to [...]

Mac evangelist, author and one of the world’s top bloggers is also a Christian: Evangelism: Eternal Life, Forgiveness, and Operating Systems

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The Gypsy revival can be traced back to 1950 in Normandy, France in the town of Liseuz. A gypsy lady named Duvil-Reinhart. A member of the local Assemblies of God gave her a tract at market.

She forgot about it until a few months later when one of her sons became desperately ill. She visited the [...]

We all go through periods of dryness in our prayers, don’t we?

I doubt … whether they are necessarily a bad symptom. I sometimes suspect that what we feel to be our best prayers are really our worst; that what we are enjoying is the satisfaction of apparent success, as in executing a dance or [...]

The great Christian revolutions come not by the discovery of something that was not known before.

They happen when someone takes radically something that was already there.

Helmut Richard Niebuhr (1894-1962)

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The world has changed. According to Betsy Morris, Fortune senior writer, so have the rules for corporate success:

Old rule: Big dogs own the street.
New rule: Agile is best; being big can bite you.

Old rule: Be #1 or #2 in your market.
New rule: Find a niche, create something new.

Old rule: Shareholders rule.
New rule: The customer is [...]