Craig Barnes meditates on a familiar, yet perplexing observation in Mark 6:48 “He intended to pass them by.” Your disciples were “straining at the oars against an adverse wind” when they caught a glimpse of you walking on the water. This time you were planning to pass by them. Apparently, you were hoping that just …

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Mikey Lynch commences online ruminations about his recent trip to the US. In this post he deals with a largely ignored, but substantial, dynamic in church planting: transfer growth. We never say it is. The books rarely talk about it explicitly, the hero-story of church planters is always ‘We arrived, just the two of us, …

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