josh.turansky

One of the great teachers affiliated with Calvary Chapel is a man named Bob Hoekstra. He may be one of the most undervalued teachers in the movement. I had the privilege of taking four classes with Bob in Bible College and I am still using the material I learned back then. He has a laser [...]

Backstage: Francis Chan from SBC Greater Things 2010 on Vimeo. <!–break–> View full post on TheResurgence blogs

How do you support your friends in ministry when you are practically broke? I’ve been asking that question recently; not because I’m broke, but because I want to do more to encourage my friends that are in full time ministry. I want to be involved, but I’m not sure my check for $10 is  going [...]

Missio Christi – Prayer – Luke 11:1a – Part 4 If God be near a church, it must pray. And if He be not there, one of the first tokens of His absence will be a slothfulness in prayer. ~ Charles Spurgeon [1] When God is near to a people, the people want to talk to God. [...]

Missio Christi – Prayer – Luke 11:1a – Part 3 In Scripture we find that Jesus tangibly connects His presence in our lives to our being on mission with Him. Matthew 28:19-20 gives His mandate to take the Gospel to the whole world: Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name [...]

My wife and I met Bryan in 2000 at Calvary Chapel Bible College. At that time he was a part of a team getting ready to go out to Australia to plant a church in Newcastle. Bryan was incredibly gifted at building relationships, doing evangelism, and teaching the Bible. Eight years later he is married [...]

Click through to the Resurgence if you can’t see the video. In this clip Darrin Patrick talks about learning from other “tribes” and pastoring our families. As usual, Darrin offers some great counsel. For more from Dustin Neeley check out cp4us.org. Acts 29 Network A network of churches planting churches for the glory of Jesus. [...]

Why I Wrote This Book I had two main goals in writing Preaching and the Emerging Church. First, I wanted to give pastors a tool to judge the preaching advice coming out of the movement. I made my assessment based on the biblical pattern and precepts that support expositional/text-driven preaching (Neh 8:8), which by nature [...]

From Doctrine: Click | View Series Hebrews reveals that Jesus’ ministry as our priest did not end with his return to heaven. Rather, Jesus is alive today and ministers to us as our high priest who intercedes for us before God the Father. Practically, this means that Jesus actually knows us, loves us, pays attention [...]

A video clip from Francis Chan has been floating around the internet the last couple of days called “The New Middle Road”. It runs for about four minutes and starts with Francis retelling an experience he had in his church. I have embedded the video below. The basic outline of the story is about a [...]