Writing

While I love to read, within the last number of years I have enjoyed the journey of writing as well.

I first started writing when my friend Pavi Thomas asked me to blog. I remember struggling to write one or two entries per week.  But now I blog six times a week. I enjoy writing now and am seeking to improve on my craft.  I have much to learn, but I am enjoying the journey.

As I have entered into formal education, my writing has increased.  I have written numerous papers, a short book and recently finished my first full book with InterVarsity Press entitled Creating a Missional Culture, which puts some of my best thoughts all in one place.  I have written articles for Leadership Journal, Evangelical Missions Quarterly (EMQ) and Religious Studies Review (RSR). Below is a sample of some of my published work, unpublished work and online articles.

Published Writings

• Creating a Missional Culture: Equipping the Church for the Sake of the World  (Author) – InterVarsity Press, 2012.
• Waiting for the Light: An Advent Devotional  (Contributor) – Mustard Seed, 2011.
• ViralHope: Good News from the Urbs to the Burbs (and everything inbetween) (Editor and Contributor) – Ecclesia Press, 2010.

Published Online (some print too) Articles

• We Need Five Disciplers, Not One – Gospel Centered Discipleship
• A Review of Salt, Light, and a City by Graham Hill – EMQ (Evangelical Missions Quarterly)
• Kingdom Influence: Establishing God’s Reign Where We Live – Leadership Journal
• What is a Missional Community – Verge Network
• How is a Missional Community Different from a Traditional Bible Study? – Verge Network
• How do you Train Missional Community Leaders – Verge Network
• Apostles as Dream Awakeners – EMQ (Evangelical Missions Quarterly)
• What Do Apostles Do? – ApostleFarm
• Five Environments Needed to Create Missional Culture – The Online Pulpit (IVP)

Unpublished Papers

• Re-Sketching the Church – Overview (Leadership in the Missional Church)
• Equippers as Environmentalist: Re-imagining Leadership for a New Era
• A Missional Proposal for Kairos Hollywood
• Is Conversion A Four-letter Word?
• The Medium and the Mission
• A Holistic Gospel
• Shalom Makers: Development in the Way of Christ – A More Human(e) Way
• Divided by Hell? An Assessment of “Love Wins” by Rob Bell – Heresy, Orthodoxy and Final Judgment

Featured Blog Posts

• A Primer on Today’s Missional Church
• Divided by Hell? An Assessment of Love Wins by Rob Bell
• A Missional View of the Doctrine of Election – Series
• The Missional Church in Perspective
• The Good News Series
• Leadership on the Line – A Review
• How to Set up Facebook Timeline
• Leading with a Limp by Dan Allendar – A Review
• Discipleship Series – Reflections from the Great Omission byDallas Willard
• The Equippers as Environmentalist – The Series
• Theology at the Theater: Watching Film as a Communal Spiritual Discipline
• Sundance Review: “Higher Ground” Reaches Higher Ground