Stop [1Word5Voices]

As part of our Lenten focus on prayer, I’m currently leading a couple of small groups through Mark Batterson’s The Circle Maker. During one of the video teachings that accompanies the small group study, Batterson references the second part of Revelation 3:7 What he opens no one can shut, and what he shuts no one can open. […]

Of Circles and Giants

If you haven’t had the opportunity to pick up Mark Batterson’s The Circle Maker, stop reading this and get a copy. The parts I’ve read (and others I learned from Mark at a recent conference) are enough for me to recommend it to you. That is if you are at all interested in prayer, power, […]

Jesus the Techie

I’m sitting in a global “coffee” chain. It’s probably the closest thing we have to a community well…a gathering place for folks to come and hang out and soak up some “community’. Some have called such gathering spots Third Places. (Mark Batterson introduced me to the concept of Third Places. Check out his thoughts here […]