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Marisa shared her version of Ezekiel 37 at the OMNI Story Sunday gathering on 9 August 2009...

I stood in the middle of a dusty valley, surrounded by very dry bones.

Long skeleton fingers inched graspingly along the barren ground in search of a drink that would quench their brittle bodies. The dry bones cracked and moaned in their search, only accomplishing to crash into each other, causing a stifling chalky dust to rise up all around. The thick residue floated up into the heavens where… Continue

by Russel Adrian Murphy

This is a follow-up article on the original posted by Russel: Outsourcing Leaders.

Imagine what the church could look like if we stopped outsourcing the development of leaders to institutions, stopped circulating leaders like sports stars and instead began creating environments where individuals were faced… Continue

by Mynhardt van Pletsen

As I'm thinking about where to next for our little community of online evangelists and grassroots catalysts, I realised that I have been very close-mouthed about a lot of the dreams, ideas and strategies that we have been talking about offline, and decided to share just a glimpse of where TBAW might be headed in 2009...

As many of these ideas have not been grounded yet, please don't hold us to them if you find out that in six month's time nothing came of it.

The… Continue

by Lukie de Beer

[Check out this discussion in Stories & Ideas From Emerging Leaders]

Way back in the 80's, Frank Peretti penned probably one of the most exciting and thought provoking christian novels ever written: 'This Present Darkness'. Well, okay, for the 80's that was pretty wild stuff! Angels and demons fighting one another for the… Continue

by Maxie van der Merwe

After listening to so many stories of young boys speaking of their abduction, about their forced killing of their own families, girls talking about how they became wives to the LRA soldiers and were used as sex objects at the fragile ages of eight, ten or twelve, listening to a young man explain how they cut off his fingers, his lips and his ears to make an example. Hearing the stories of a youn… Continue