Church and Kingdom

Aidan's personal theological musings

Mirror Dimly

My bleary eyes open to darkness,Hands reaching, searching for my […]

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Jesu’ Calls

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Jesus Ran Away

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Two Surprising Tools to Ditch Groupthink and Get Results Everyone Backs

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Who Breathes Fire

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What if we’ve been asking the wrong question about life?

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Church as a business, or Church as a tribe?

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Jesus Builds His Church

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Forgetting Jesus = Forgetting the Point

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Church is for the kingdom

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Dear Lord

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God loves a sticky wicket

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God’s idea of Church

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What Is A Missional Church? Probably Not Like Us.

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We want a king!

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Wesley Nails The Missional Stuff

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Augustine On The Beauty of The Incarnation

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Poor Church, Right Place

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Funeral For The Church

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8 essential lessons learned leading a missional community

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Do Churches Disciple The Wrong Way?

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Community is Pointless

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Where have all the apostles gone? Let’s have more APEs Please.

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Where do you get your normal from?

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Piece of bread, peace with God

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Vision Don’t Kill People, Instructions Do

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Escaping the Man, Movement, Machine, Monument Cycle

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What’s Kingdom, and What’s Just Culture?

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No Wealth Gap in the Kingdom of God

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What’s the Future of Christian Community?

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How God Led Us Into Intentional Christian Community

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God’s Big Mission of Reconciliation

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The Biggest Issue

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Turning point of history

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Church is coming home

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Future Focused Living

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God wants you to live backwards