Posted on Monday, 30th August 2010 by chris wignall

A few months ago a colleague from my days as a youth pastor invited me to review his new book. I was somewhat hesitant. While I respected the work Jeff Strong does at Grindstone Church, I suspected his book “Mere Disciple” would disappoint me. I anticipated something that took well established and familiar ideas about [...]

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Posted on Tuesday, 17th August 2010 by chris wignall

One of the major new challenges I’ve taken on this year is chairing the board with Absolute.org (one of our strategic partners). Having been on boards of a few organizations before, and with a sudden need for someone to accept the chair, I agreed to the role in February. It hasn’t been an easy time [...]

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Posted on Monday, 16th August 2010 by chris wignall

Sometimes it’s just about context. Yesterday professional golfer Dustin Johnson blew a chance to win his first major tournament because he hadn’t taken 60 seconds to read the specific rules of the course that were posted for all the players to see. A lot of fans were annoyed that a seemingly small violation caused by [...]

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Posted on Friday, 13th August 2010 by chris wignall

When we launched our organization in February of 2008 one of the first decisions we made was that we wouldn’t offer grants to churches. It was actually a very easy decision and one made with very little debate. On our website’s FAQs we put it this way: 5. Does Catalyst support church-based projects? Not at [...]

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Posted on Friday, 13th August 2010 by chris wignall

Lately I’ve been getting comments on this blog from people who are offering to help get our website to the top of Google and Yahoo searches using their brilliant SEO (Search Engine Optimization) strategy. That would be slightly intriguing if the purpose of our website was to be at the top of searches. Even a [...]

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Posted on Monday, 9th August 2010 by chris wignall

Andy Stanley from Northpoint Church in Georgia shares his reflection on a critical mistake he made for the first eight years of his leadership in a video from Catalyst Leadership (no relation:) ) You may have to scroll down the page to find Andy’s video and it is a little slow to load. I love [...]

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