Author Archive: theburnerblog

How to Do What You Do When You Don’t Have Time to Do It All

A cadre of Fuller students have pulled together to create a quarterly event called “Week Four” in which they get together and TED Talk.

Fuller staff member and renaissance man Matt Lumpkin (whose Burner contributions are here) gave an excellent presentation on interests, duty and the business of life [...]

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Eddie Gibbs on Multi-Site Churches

From Moody Radio, Fuller’s own Eddie Gibbs is featured on the “against” side of the multi-site church debate.

You can listen in at the Up for Debate page.

What do you think about multi-site churches? 

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Why Millennials are Leaving the Church–and How We Can Stop It

Did you ever hear the one about the “stiff-necked” people, marching around the desert on life-support until a new generation could replace them? They made a movie about it.

Or the group of religious leaders who lost their purpose so tragically that their whole rasion d’etre (de croyance?) was taken from them and given [...]

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FREE DMin: What You Missed in Transforming Your Leadership Development Process

Last week, The Burner offices were surrounded by Doctor of Ministry students soaking up all the knowledge that instructor Bob Logan had to offer in his class, “Transforming Your Leadership Development Process.”

You missed out.

But Pastor Tom Acton has your back.

Pastor Tom has blogged [...]

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In Your Corner

I have never been a big fan of boxing. I’m sure there are many reasons for this: I was raised in a family that never paid attention to it; I’ve got an aversion to blood and knocked-out teeth; I generally prefer activities in which no one has a chance of death or concussion or [...]

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CBE Conference Sponsored by Fuller Texas

This post is reprinted without permission but with extreme gratitude to J. R. Daniel Kirk who blogs at Storied Theology

“Sometimes silence is golden. Sometimes, it’s just plain yella‘.”

That one-liner is one of my a summary takeaways from this weekend’s Christians for Biblical Equality conference in [...]

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Pastor’s Update: Discipleship, Mission and the Church – Jo Saxton

Join host Dave Kludt as Jo Saxton speaks on discipleship, mission and the church. Saxton, a director for church-planting organziation 3DM, and author of recently published book More Than Enchanting: Breaking Through Barriers to Influence Your World (IVP, 2012), also visited Fuller for last month’s  more...