City to City Blog

Church planters are not known for sitting still. We think of ourselves as entrepreneurs, eager to pound the pavement, share the gospel with our neighbors, and begin growing a new church. And yet after over a year of preparation, from assessment to training to commissioning services, Julia and I now ...

Mission Week
Imagine a group of 50 students invading the three main universities in Rome with the good news of the gospel! This is what took place from March 15-19 during a missions week organized by the Gruppi Biblici Universitari (GBU) in Rome. We’ve had several different activities during the week, ...

[Continued from Part 1]

Ross Douthat’s Bad Religion attributes Christianity’s decline in the U.S. to: 1) the political polarization which has sucked churches into its vortex, 2) the sexual revolution that has undermined the plausibility of Christian faith and practice for an entire generation, 3) the globalization that has made the ...

Gloria Furman is a wife, mother, writer, photographer, doula, and follower of Jesus Christ who lives in Dubai, where her husband Dave pastors Redeemer Church of Dubai. She is currently writing a book for Crossway on applying the gospel in the mundane, based on her blog Domestic ...

In my last blog I spoke about changing our paradigms from an industrial or megachurch mentality to one that is more sustainable in our post-Christian culture. The first two were 1) incarnation over innovation and 2) environments over processes, and the last two are 3) movements over expansion and ...