Thin Places Launch & Video Trailer

While I have been at work on the development and writing of Thin Places: Six Postures for Creating and Practicing Missional Community for over a year, the contents are the culmination of over 10 years of lived theology, story and practice.  While I love to write, this project has been uniquely fulfilling as it is …

Book Trailer #1: Why I Wrote Teaching Through the Art of Storytelling

This is the first in a series of four book trailers put together by my friends Jon Hall and Peter Schrock.  Not only is the world filled with dynamic stories, the Scriptures tell God’s Story. Our role is to invite others into the Story and one powerful way to communicate such an invitation is through …

Watching the Missional Church Come to Life

Every once in a while I sit back, reflect and realize what a gift it is to serve and live among a missional church community like ours. While the mission of NieuCommunities takes many different forms (click here for explanation of such forms), one key element is the weekly gathering of the church community. Every …

My Book is Taking New Form!

While the e-book format of my book Teaching Through the Art of Storytelling (available here) was released this past December, Zondervan has made it official that the book will make a second release as a paperback! This is big news as many (myself included) are still a bit averse to the idea of reading a …