Author: Coleen Harvey

A pastor in Romania, where I’m based this month, taught from Mark 9 last Sunday. One point of the sermon that really stood out to me was the part where the disciples were not able to cast the demon out of a possessed boy (Mark 9:14-29). I have heard it taught that it was the … Continued

Do you find it surprising that Jesus said, ‘no’ to some people? I know that I did at first, but then I began to notice that Jesus didn’t work closely with everyone He encountered. Jesus interacted with people on differing levels (the masses, the 200, the 70, the 12, and the ’inner circle’ of Peter, … Continued

I often tell students that we are asking God to build spiritual movements on each campus so that the Kingdom of God will extend everywhere. What is the Kingdom of God like? Jesus tells us in Mark 4 that the Kingdom of God is like a man who plants seeds in the ground. I grew … Continued

Reading about God’s greatness as seen in the magnitude of the galaxies and in the complexity of the microscopic world … God creates unknown objects that are 34,560,000,000,000 – 172,800,000,000,000 miles in diameter, heavier than all the 150-200,000,000,000 stars (150-200 Billion) in the Milky Way. (And the Milky Way is just 1 of at least … Continued

The best-equipped army cannot save a king, nor is great strength enough to save a warrior. Don’t count on your warhorse to give you victory—for all its strength, it cannot save you. … Psalm 33:16-17 (NLT) I had the privilege of participating in a team meeting with the catalytic team in Poland. Marek Marcinowicz was leading … Continued

A while ago I spent a season of time in looking at John 15:1-17 where Jesus reminds us, I am the Vine; you are the branches. Whoever lives in Me and I in him shall produce a large crop of fruit. For apart from Me you can’t do a thing. (v.5). One writer spoke about how … Continued

Many of you will recognize this key catalytic principle: ‘A student’s bad idea is better than my best idea … and sometimes it’s way better than my idea! I was recently consulting with a catalytic team. We were talking through ideas for a ministry strategy that would help them maximize their efforts in a specific … Continued

I have recently been looking back over my early days of transitioning from a staffed-campus strategy to the catalytic approach. I remember that it took me a while to grasp the concept of ‘discipleship’ in the catalytic strategy. I think it was because I went directly from a classic team to a catalytic metro team. … Continued