Note: I am privileged to serve on the Austin Stone Story Team as a writer. I have been with the team a few months and it has been great for me, it’s an opportunity to serve the church body with my meager talents and tell the stories of what God is doing in our community [...]
Tags: 100people, austin-stone
Note: I am privileged to serve on the Austin Stone Story Team as a writer. I have been with the team a few months and it has been great for me, it’s an opportunity to serve the church body with my meager talents and tell the stories of what God is doing in our community [...]
Tags: 100people, story-team
Via Justin Taylor, here is a great conversation from the Desiring God Conference between J.D. Greear and Thabiti Anyabwile about how to love our Muslim neighbors. Definitely worth your time to watch.
Tags: Anyabwile, desiring-god, Greear, islam
Today, by the grace of God, the For the City Network and The Austin Stone officially opened the For the City Center at our St. John’s campus. As I mentioned back when the church publicly announced the establishment of the For the City Center, our church is working with and providing office/storefront space for 4 [...]
Tags: austin, austin-stone, for-the-city, for-the-city-center, st-johns
Courtesy of Desiring God, I ran across a quote of Billy Graham’s from over 40 years ago that seems greatly prescient to me: I think one of the first things I would do would be to a get a small group of eight or ten or twelve people around me that would meet a few [...]
Tags: forgotten-ways, Graham, Hirsch, missional
Seriously, buy the album here. Right now. Saturday night I was down at La Zona Rosa for the Music For The City album release party and it was a really good show. Great mix of bands, and some good new discoveries for me, with the bonus of helping some great organizations here in Austin. What [...]
Click here to listen to Matt’s talk Matt spoke earlier this week at Advance the Church’s annual conference. His talk was titled Ecclessia Engaged: For the Joy of the City. It is well worth the time to listen to it. For those of us who are part of the Austin Stone it should all be [...]
Tags: advance-the-church, austin-stone, Carter, Jeremiah
Previously I wrote about the conflict between our Christianity and our American culture, in that post I mentioned that I would be writing about what we can do to bring our lives more in line with the New Testament. This is my first post in a series on this, I offer these thoughts humbly as [...]
