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The Unlikely Marriage of Mission and Institution Part 5

Mike Kelly | April 17, 2025

How the New Testament Did the Great Commission and What it Means for the Church Today —by— Rev. Michael Kelly Executive Director of the Northwest Church Planting Network We Must Change Our Metric for Successful Church Plants. It is often said that it is the leader’s job to define reality. True enough, however, before leaders […]

The Unlikely Marriage of Mission and Institution Part 4

Mike Kelly | April 14, 2025

How the New Testament Did the Great Commission and What it Means for the Church Today —by— Rev. Michael Kelly Executive Director of the Northwest Church Planting Network Our Apologists Must Turn Their Energies to Defending the Church in History Our apologists have been busy these last decades. Atheist zealots have laid waste to more […]

The Unlikely Marriage of Mission and Institution Part 2

Mike Kelly | March 15, 2025

How the New Testament Did the Great Commission and What it Means for the Church Today —by— Rev. Michael Kelly Executive Director of the Northwest Church Planting Network Part 2 The Challenge and Necessity of New Testament Mission in the 21st Century— Historical Trends— Speaking of the advent of voluntary mission agencies, which burgeoned in […]

Sunday Meds

Lord's Day meditations to help you keep going

Lame Preachers

Mike Kelly | April 20, 2025

Like a lame man’s legs, which hang useless, is a proverb in the mouth of fools. Proverbs 26.7 Wisdom isn’t synonymous with orthodoxy, but everything that isn’t orthodox is foolish, which means the theologically sound preacher can mistake himself for a wise man who wonders why his sermons have no legs. It’s the same error […]

For Starter

Mike Kelly | April 6, 2025

Grace, mercy, and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord. 1 Timothy 1.2 You’ve read and reread the pastoral epistles to learn your craft. They’ve warned of false teachers, instructed you in corporate worship, shown the marks of qualified officers, trained us to shepherd the wayward, given wisdom about the structures and […]

Artifacts

Mike Kelly | March 30, 2025

This is post 1 of 1 in the series “legacy” …do not wipe out my good deeds that I have done for the house of my God. Nehemiah 13.14 I’m writing this Med in Britain a few miles away from churches built 700 years ago on sites that hosted Christian worship 700 years before […]