Pastor, Missiologist, Mobilizer…
This morning I was reading Acts 5 devotionally, and couldn’t help myself but to think of Ananias and Sapphira’s Obiturary page in the “Jerusalem Times.”…
Continue reading → An Obituary of the Self-Centered Church Member: Acts 5
Introduction Change conjures up emotions of love and hate. People love change when it is beneficial; a wife loves when her husband changes and begins…
Continue reading → Review: “The Missional Leader” by Alan Roxburgh and Fred Romanuk
This morning I was reading the account of the fiery furnace in Daniel 3. Many are familiar with the story of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego…
Being a father provides you a front row seat peering into the manifestation of self-righteousness. When something goes wrong, and one of my children are…
Continue reading → Self-Righteousness: Six Identifiers for those Blinded by Self-Righteousness
Using Language as a Missional Liturgy: The Need for a Paradigmatic Shift in our Language I was reading Genesis 41 this morning where Joseph is brought…
Our culture builds security and trust on individuality. If you think about it, the whole notion of the American Dream is undergirded by the ideology…
At Northland we have shared and begun to implement a new mission and vision. This has required to some extent a change of direction in…
Continue reading → Quick Thought about how New Missions/Visions are like Newborn Babies
For the last two weeks I have been in a series titled Resolution. My aim has been to expound on how both individuals and churches…
On Sunday night January 6, the staff of Northland Baptist Church unveiled the mission and vision of where we sense God leading. But before we…
Today is a very difficult day in the life of my family. For today, we will be celebrating and memorializing the passing of Joannie’s sister,…
Continue reading → The Sting of Death and the Victorious Life
Josh Laxton 