by Chip Brogden | Jan 14 | Ekklesia, Fellowship & Church, Featured | 16 Comments

Without a purpose – and without leadership to keep people aligned to that purpose – home fellowships are as spiritually unsatisfying as the institutional church services they aspire to break free from.

by Chip Brogden | Aug 12 | Ekklesia, Fellowship & Church, Featured | 46 Comments

The turning point in my life came in 1995. At that time I was a 24 year-old burned out pastor of a church that had just closed. I was a little angry, a little frustrated, and a little depressed. As I was half-reading and half-praying, I came across a passage that I had seen hundreds of times before…

by Chip Brogden | Dec 31 | Christ & The Kingdom of God, Featured | 43 Comments

Let me ask, how can you make the Lord your habitation, your dwelling place? How is that possible? This can only be interpreted spiritually, it is absolutely impossible, and hardly conceivable, if we think of it naturally. How can I live in the Lord? Well, it’s like Nicodemus saying, “How can a man enter into his mother’s womb and be born again?”

by Chip Brogden | Jun 24 | Discipleship & Spiritual Growth, Featured | 10 Comments

I think we all start out with a kindergarten-level understanding of prayer. I know I did. I suppose that is natural; unfortunately, too many people remain at that level and never advance beyond it. At first, prayer is all about “me.” My needs, wants, wishes, desires,...

by Chip Brogden | Oct 14 | Discipleship & Spiritual Growth, Featured | 5 Comments

The Ekklesia enjoys spiritual oneness with Jesus, and so it grows spiritually (and may I say it grows spontaneously) without effort, and is fruitful as it continues to abide in that spiritual oneness that already exists in Christ.

by Chip Brogden | Feb 4 | Ekklesia, Fellowship & Church, Featured | 40 Comments

Many things compete for our time, attention, affection, energy, and money. But there is only one Lord Jesus. Just as some people cannot see the forest for the trees, I believe most sinners cannot see Jesus for the Christians. And I believe most Christians cannot see Jesus for the “church”.

by Chip Brogden | Feb 11 | Discipleship & Spiritual Growth, Featured | 11 Comments

In calling us to come back to the Cross, God is asking us lay down our lives and embrace the Wisdom of death, burial, resurrection, and ascension in order to live as sons and daughters within the Kingdom of God.

by Chip Brogden | May 19 | Ekklesia, Fellowship & Church, Featured | 6 Comments

Archippus had received a ministry from the Lord, and he had not, as of yet, fulfilled it. Archippus knew it, and Paul knew it, and now everyone in Colossae knew it. He was called to something, and had received something from the Lord, but it was dormant, stagnant, inert, still waiting to be put to use.