I currently have 81 subscriptions in my feed reader to blogs of various church leaders and thinkers. I find a lot of value in these blogs and thought I would share a sampling of my most valued content.

ChurchETHOS is a collection of thoughts about making disciples, planting churches, and engaging culture. So let me share with you who I’m reading that informs my own thinking on these three topics. (These may or may not be the topics that the blogger chose for his or her own blog. In fact, some should be listed in all three topics. However, I chose to put them in these topics because they are the MOST helpful TO ME in that particular area.)

Making Disciples

Doug Hunt – Doug was a mentor of mine while we were both living in Boston. He is now the BCM director at Clemson University. Put him on your feedreader because he doesn’t post every day…he’s too busy making disciples!
Lewie Clark – Lewie is a disciple maker in Chicago. He really seeks to live like Jesus and he is truly seeing the reproduction of disciples as he invests in others.
Floyd & Sally McClung – Floyd & Sally are passionate about making disciples, training leaders, and planting churches. I especially love their insights on making disciples from an international perspective.
David Watson – David is another church planter that I’ve put in the “making disciples” category because I’ve really valued his insights on discipleship even more than his insights on church planting. (Tip: Making disciples leads to new churches and David gets that!)

Planting Churches

JD Payne – I heard JD speak at a meeting of church planters and I appreciated his fresh insights into Biblical church planting. I’ve also read his book [affiliate link] and follow him on twitter.
Tim Morey – Tim has written one of my favorite books [affiliate link] on church planting and I’m glad he has started blogging as well.
Doug Foltz – Doug has been blogging a series of posts recently about church planting launch teams that has been especially helpful but all of his other stuff is awesome too!
Ed Stetzer – Who is planting a church in North America and hasn’t benefited from a stat, a book [affiliate link], a post, or a tweet from Ed Stetzer?

Engaging Culture

Jon Acuff – Jon Acuff, from “Stuff Christians Like” asks the question “Does the stuff we like ever get in the way of the God we love?” Jon answers that question with satire and wit on his blog and now in his new book [affiliate link]. Get ready to horse laugh!
Mike Wittmer – I recently did a series of book reviews on Mike Wittmer’s book Don’t Stop Believing [affiliate link] because Mike does a great job of showing us how to be both theologically sound and culturally engaging all at the same time.
Church Marketing Sucks – This site helps your church communicate its message in a non-sucky way. Whether online or offline, the church needs to do a better job of utilizing our God given creativity and talent to share the gospel with our neighbors.
John Saddington – John is the genius behind ChurchCrunch, a blog about all things church and technology. John helps me think through the use of technology as I engage the culture around me.

So these are just a few of my most trusted resources as I think about making disciples, planting churches and engaging culture. I’m always looking for new sources of good info so feel free to recommend some in the comments section.