My series on How Not to Be a Missional Church is now complete! Check it out at The Resurgence.

Dating

• Articles at Boundless
• Chapter 3 from Mark Driscoll’s Religion Saves: and 9 other misconceptions

• Doing What’s Right in Matters of the Heart/free ebook (Ensor) – eminently practical guide to manhood and womanhood is available
  

Marriage

• Sacred Marriage (Gary Thomas) – argues that marriage is for holiness as much as it is for happiness. Love this quote: “We don’t fall out of love as much as we fall out of repentance.”
• When Sinners Say I Do (Harvey) – heavy on the gospel-centered dynamic between husband and wife
• God, Marriage, & Family (Kostenberger) – uber-biblical, with a twist of practical. Great for reference and finer concerns.
• The Momentary Marriage/free ebook (Piper) – God-centered, biblical, and practical. I really enjoyed this new book by Piper that sets your marriage in the larger context of the glory of God and the mission of the church.
• The Mystery of Marriage (Mason) – more philosophical reflections on marriage. Our copy of this book is legendary. We read it in 2000 and keep bumping into people who have read our copy, and say they love the book. Weird.

• Love that Lasts Riccucis – marital wisdom for a lifetime. The Riccucis are transparent and helpful.

• “First Year Off” (of marriage) – how much time to spend together the first year of marriage. Don’t forsake mission, but don’t forsake one another.
• “How Do Husbands Love Wives?” – cultural and biblical reflections on love
  
• “Marriage: Cynicism and Idolatry” – things that keep us from the joy of marriage
  

Also see recent sermon: Restoring the Symmetry: Marriage & Singleness

In this Q&A session, I explain the difference between belief and faith. In the U.S., we have way too much belief and not enough faith. As Harvey Cox writes: “We can believe something to be true without it making much difference to us, but we place our faith only in something that is vital for the way we live.”

Be jealous. I am going to see Monsters of Folk with three of my favorite people tonight at Stubbs. In case you don’t know who Monsters of Folk are, they are a project band comprised of Conor Oberst, Jim James, M Ward and Mike Mogis from their respective Bright Eyes, My Morning Jacket and M Ward.

Read the story about missional soup.

I am off to the Missional Network Gathering in Kansas City tomorrow with Brad Brisco as my host. I’ll be speaking on two main topics:

• Planting to Movement: Forming City Networks
• Best Practices of Missional Communities

This is a video that shows my quirkiness from when we lived in snowy Manchester-by-the-Sea.

I just stumbled across this audio on Radical Womanhood from Carolyn McCulley. She gives three talks and unpacks the three waves of feminism:

1. Men Aren’t the Problem
2. The Importance of Home
3. The Mommy Wars

Just one click away…