When your congregation chooses to reach out to its community context or the people groups God has called you to serve, from a Christ-centered faith perspective, you know your focus is to fulfill the Great Commission in the spirit of the Great Commandment.
You can tell how most conferences will end before the opening session. People arrive excited. The coffee is good. The worship is excellent. Speakers are
You’ve probably heard that old story of the sailors who encountered a man stranded on an island, alone, for many years.
Something has gone wrong with the picture of manhood in our culture. On one side, there is a version of masculinity that measures a man by his toughness, his conquests and his refusal to show weakness. On the other hand, there is an apologetic passivity that has little to offer a young man searching for a worthy vision of what he ought to become.
“This is a very powerful tool,” Victor Chayasirisobhon gushed June 10 at an hour-long meeting of the Ethnic Research Network. “This is going to save me hours and hours — if not days! — of work.”
Despite decades of declining religious affiliation and church participation in the U.S., a new study says parents who model and share their faith at home tend to reap spiritual dividends, sooner or later.
You spent days walking convention halls, listening to reports, participating in votes, visiting exhibitors, reconnecting with friends and meeting new ministry leaders. The SBC Annual Meeting is an investment of time, money and energy.
Here’s what most church leaders get wrong about the exodus of young people: they blame screens.
There are many ways to prepare for Vacation Bible School (VBS). Prayer is an obvious one. Prayer walking offers every church member an opportunity to lay an intentional, strategic spiritual foundation for ministering to children.
Are active laypersons in your congregation sufficiently captured by God’s empowering vision for your congregation that they can speak from their hearts with spiritual passion
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