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Lord fill these seats with people, fill the people who sit in them with your Spirit! Amen.

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Awake. Prayed up. Grateful. Ready for the day. Let’s go Maryland! music.apple.com/us/playlist/...

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🧵I’m preparing to travel to Ocean City, MD to join 2000 youth for the Ignite Conference. Emerging generational cohorts are some of the most spiritually open in recent history. “I believe in God, just not the church” is a sentiment I hear frequently from my students. My assignment is to spark (1)

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We all have ashes. Let’s paint with them. If you’re looking for resources to help you go deeper this Lent, consider the #paintingwithashes bundle. #AshWednesday www.inviteministries.org/painting-wit...

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400ish folks gathered in the #atl for #fxum25 It was three days of Holy Spirit outpouring!

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After a full day of stinky undergrads we are flying up to the #ATL to join 400 other vile Methodists for #Fxum25

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🧵 I nicked my face while I was shaving this morning. Suddenly, I found myself transported back to my B.C. life as an incarcerated juvenile. When I moved up from “jit camp” (juvenile detention aka gladiator school) into the big leagues with the adults, a black man whose street name was Orlando took

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Heading to stir up some fresh expressions mischief! Tomorrow’s Greenhouse kicks off a year long adventure of cultivating new faith communities across Texas. Please cover us in prayer 🙏🏽

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Today is release day for #NeverAlone If you haven't grabbed a copy, it's available: www.amazon.com/Never-Alone-... Please share about the book using the hashtag #neveralone take a selfie, and feel free to tag me! Join us for the free webinar tonight at 8pm ET: us02web.zoom.us/j/88095468152

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So excited that #NeverAlone made the Englewood Review! englewoodreview.org/new-book-rel...

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Friends #NeverAlone Release Day Webinar this Tuesday, February 18th at 8pm ET! Would love to have a conversation with you about how we can share the gift of community amid a pandemic of loneliness. Register for the Webinar: form.jotform.com/250294076554... a.co/d/gbqb3pe

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Gem of the night from Higher Power Hour (church in an inpatient rehab)… “unforgiveness is like holding onto a burning piece of coal hoping it will hurt the one who harmed us.”

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🧵For all the whitelash about why rap is bad and how the halftime show was so terrible. This is called prophetic protest. Kendrick Lamar is standing in a long line of Biblical poets who confronted empire and religious hypocrisy. If you genuinely want to understand what’s happening here, read (1)

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So excited that #NeverAlone made it into Publishers Weekly on reads to heal loneliness! www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

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Tomorrow is release day for #TreasuresOldAndNew a practical guide to explore new forms of church that “serve the present age” while rooting missional innovation in the lost treasure of early Methodism. The book is a #1 new release! Grab a copy here… www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B0DJ...

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Honored to be the speaker for the Harold Paul Sloan Series this weekend! If you’re in the area of Haddonfield UMC, join us tonight starting at 7pm! www.haddonfieldumc.org/now

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How do we help people join the other window? How do we cultivate a culture that celebrates practitioners? Why do we hire consultants & read books by people who aren’t actively practicing what they preach? Would we follow a guide through a desert they had never traveled or don't currently inhabit?

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In our system there are “positive deviants,” adventurers, & trailblazers following closely in the slipstream of Jesus. My role as a supervisor is primarily twofold: 1. Remove structural obstacles that inhibit missional creativity 2. Create infrastructure that supports often fragile experiments

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🧵The more I learn, the less I know. But one thing I'm increasingly certain of, and the Bible makes unmistakably clear, is that followers of Jesus are called to prioritize the orphan, widow, immigrant, and those experiencing poverty. The church is to be a community that..

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We’ve been struggling for months with getting a zoning change to begin the women’s sober housing in our church plant at Compassion. Tuesday we were finally approved! Here’s tonight’s TV20 News segment. Thanks for the prayers and support everyone 🙏🏽 www.wcjb.com/2025/01/23/t...

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This woman is not a “far left liberal activist.” She’s just an old fashioned Christian, doing what Christians have been doing for 2000 years.

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Becoming an Episcopalian is suddenly a compelling option.

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“... who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice..." Letter from Birmingham Jail, April 16, 1963 #MLKDay #MLKWeekend #MLK

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Heading up to join an incredible team of cultivators from across New England to co-lead a Fresh Expressions Garden Day together! Please cover us in prayer, it’s going to be a cold one 🙏🏽

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This semester I’m team-teaching a course on Wisdom with my mentor Dr. Monika Ardelt. Literally a dream come true 🐊

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Such a wonderful day. Five diverse services at three churches. Three baptisms at Wildwood. And this sweet couple, John and Ben, and mom Josie, are ready to become founding members at Compassion next Sunday!

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We live in a throw-away society. A culture of consumerism is simultaneously a culture of waste. Small, intentional gatherings like Shenanigans ... enable us to offer the ultimate gift—withness. passionalchurch.substack.com/p/holy-shena...

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Join us at Fresh Expressions National Gathering 2025 to learn with Bishop Ken Carter! #fxum25 na.eventscloud.com/ereg/index.p...

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Full house for my first course at Duke. What an incredible group of students!

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2025, not a great start. Domestic terror. Mass shootings. Judicial inequity. Global tension rising between allies. Biblically speaking, when morally bankrupt leaders are in power it stains the entire social system. Violence, viruses, blood in the Nile, the land gets sick, creation unravels, darkness

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Heading up to join into the wonderful community of @dukedivinity.bsky.social this week. Excited to pray, worship, learn, & teach missional ecclesiology in this sacred space. Then it’s over to North Virginia to share about cultivating communal life in Jesus in everyday life 🙏🏽

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God hopes. Yes, of course God loves us, we are all God’s children. But that’s not the full “good news.” God also has hopes for us. Grace is the bridge that carries us all across from who we were to the original goodness God created us to be.

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We are starting 2025 with two books as top new releases in their Amazon categories. #TreasuresOldandNew has held down the #1 spot for three weeks and #NeverAlone is climbing! Thanks to all of you who have preordered 🙏🏽 www.amazon.com/stores/Micha...

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Happy New Year everyone! Wishing you a blessed 2025 🙏🏽😊 This year let’s shift our focus from self-centered resolutions to community-centered intentions—intentions to be a source of peace, hope, and connection for others. Here's my New Year's reflection... open.substack.com/pub/passiona...

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🧵What do you do with a God in a feeding trough? A God who is present right in the heartbeat of the pain and poverty? So many distorted versions of Christianity set a tension between “us and them.” The “us” of our Immanuel “God with us” grows smaller and more exclusive. We must live in conflict…

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Loneliness is an epidemic that’s claiming lives, but there’s hope. This Christmas, let’s explore how incarnational communities offer a powerful antidote to isolation. Latest article & podcast episode on how compassion-centered expressions heal a fragmented world… open.substack.com/pub/passiona...

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Tomorrow, Jill & I get to participate with God in the baptism of our granddaughter Juniper Jean Adams. This holy ritual will occur in the sacred space where my daughter Caitlin was baptized, & where I was baptized before her. I couldn’t dream up a better way to open Christmas and conclude 2024.

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Ἐν ἀρχῇ ἦν ὁ λόγος, καὶ ὁ λόγος ἦν πρὸς τὸν θεόν, καὶ θεὸς ἦν ὁ λόγος. “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.” #FloridaChristmas

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