PRAYERS FOR MY CITY: A Fixed-Hour Prayer Guide for Grand Rapids
An ancient spiritual practice for 21st century Grand Rapids For thousands of years, the Church has gathered throughout the day to offer praises to God, confess sin, and cry out on behalf of others and themselves in prayer, both in community and individually. But recently something has been lost in our technological and cultural evolution—a grounding in the wider, deeper streams of the community of Jesus and historic Church practices has been forsaken. As we adopt sleeker forms of Church and...
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Who is the Jesus we show? What is the Story we tell? These honest questions sit at the heart of this punchy, provocative book. Throughout his debut title, Jeremy Bouma seeks to drive a conversation within the American Church about how she is showing Jesus and telling his hopeful Story because America’s culture is progressively skipping toward post-Christendom. Many Americans are increasingly disinterested in Jesus, skeptical of his followers, and ambivalent toward his good, hopeful...
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Here is an introduction video on the content and vision for the (un)offensive gospel of Jesus.
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We are an idea curator dedicated to helping the Church of West Michigan rediscover the historic Christian faith. Jesus said that the Church is “the light of the world, a city on a hill that cannot be hidden.” We provide the resources to help Her shine brightly in 21st century West Michigan by helping the Church connect God’s Story of Rescue to our city, while remaining theologically rooted and biblically uncompromising.