Saturday Lagniappe: "6 Ways to Avoid Owing Taxes Next Year" and More

6 Ways to Avoid Owing Taxes Next Year

Tax Day has come and gone. For many, yesterday was a painful experience as they realized they owed the government more than expected. The good news is that, a year from now, filling out your 2018 taxes does not have to result in a repeat performance. Read More

Navigating the Gray Areas of Church Finance

When it comes to church finances, there are countless gray areas. It’s a good idea to get advice from an independent group. Read More

Why Study Theology

When large numbers of professing evangelical Christians are not sure whether the deity of Christ is an article of the Christian faith, then we have more than a problem. We are the proverbial lemmings, rushing headlong toward the precipice. Read More

4 Reasons Why Pastoral Honeymoons Are Shrinking

Why are pastoral honeymoons shorter now? There are at least 4 reasons.... Read More

Too Many Pastors Are 'Digging Their Graves with Their Teeth'

One of the chief occupational hazards of a pastor, whether evangelical or mainline, is overeating. Read More

Authentic Preaching: Bringing Yourself Into The Message

Craig Groeschel encourages pastors to make sure they don't miss the key ingredient for authenticity in preaching. Read More

What Is the Biggest Problem Facing Evangelicalism? Comfort

The biggest problem facing the British Evangelical church today is, without doubt, our own personal comfort. Far too many of us are happy in our middle-class Christian enclaves, in comfortable areas of the country, going to churches full of people exactly like them. If they are even willing to countenance joining a church plant – and many won’t because it is far more demanding to join a small core team rather than remain a consumer in a larger church – it is nigh on impossible to get them to consider a council estate or deprived community. Read More

Comfortable Christians Are Killing the Church

In this earlier article Stephen Kneale identifies as a major obstacle to church planting in England the problem getting workers to move to the less desirable parts of the country, a view that he reiterates in the preceding article. Read More

A part of the problem may be the approach to church planting that Kneale and others are employing in England. It entails recruiting a core group of Christians from existing churches in one region of the country to work with a lead church planter in pioneering a new church in another region of the country. This approach has its drawbacks as Kneale is experiencing. It is just one of a number of church planting approaches that Ed Stetzer and others have identified. To re-evangelize England's North and to plant new churches in that region may require a different approach or more than one approach. I do not disagree with Kneale's premise that many evangelicals are reluctant to leave their comfort zones and pioneer new churches. This problem is observable in the United States as well as the United Kingdom. But the solution may be to adopt a church planting approach that is keyed to the particular region as Stetzer and others advocate.

Student Walkouts Sweep the US

Friday was National Student Walkout in which thousands of students across the the United States walked out of their classes in a nationwide call for gun reform legislation. Read More

Ukraine Moves to Split Church from Russia as Elections Approach

Ukraine's Orthodox church could become independent of Moscow under the terms of a presidential initiative lawmakers approved on Thursday, a move that President Petro Poroshenko said would make it harder for Russia to meddle in Ukrainian affairs. Read More