Here’s the Bible Studies for Life Sunday School lesson commentary for November 3, written by Bobby McKay, pastor of New Liberty Baptist Church in Morton, Mississippi.
At least once a month, walk through your buildings, review your worship and educational services, consider different elements of church life and ask yourself: “How would this hit me if I were a guest?,” Lifeway notes.
“We can and certainly should show our appreciation for our pastors with a good word. We should also be careful to show our appreciation with a good wage,” writes Hance Dilbeck, president and CEO of GuideStone.
“I think we’re not as divided as we think we are, and I think people are hungry for those virtues — the fruit of the Spirit,” said Daryn Henry, associate professor of Christian Studies at the University of Virginia.
University students from Zambia, Mississippi and Tennessee sat around a blazing fire pit in Lusaka, Zambia. Songs and laughter filled the night air. And, like typical college students, conversations moved deeper the longer they hung out.
Four in 5 U.S. Protestant churchgoers (80%) believe a pastor must address current issues to be doing their job, according to a Lifeway Research study. Few (16%) disagree, and 4% aren’t sure.
Here’s the Bible Studies for Life Sunday School lesson commentary for October 27, written by Bobby McKay, pastor of New Liberty Baptist Church in Morton, Mississippi.
Lifeway’s B&H Publishing Group partnered with 2K/DENMARK and Cambridge University to release the CSB Grace Bible for Kids, a first-of-its-kind Bible for readers with dyslexia, available this fall.
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