Monday, August 15, 2022

Monday's Catch: "Helping Your Kids Avoid Negative Christianity' And More


Here are some differences between positive and negative Christianity that can help us to avoid the one and encourage the other....

Top Ten Post-Pandemic Reasons Guests Do Not Return to Your Church
Here are the top ten reasons from guests before the pandemic. While a lot has changed, some things stay the same.

How to Execute a Strategic Plan at Your Church – Crafting the Plan
The best strategic plans have four distinct segments....

Senior Saints, We Need You
Many senior citizens go without any serious discipleship ministry. Too few churches or pastors offer ministry to seniors that exceeds what happens in age-based small groups and infrequent home visits.

What Can a Heart Do?
We will not do anything or say anything or even desire anything without the heart first issuing the order.

Transubstantiation: What Catholicism Teaches About the Supper
The Catholic Church teaches that during the Eucharist, the body of Jesus Christ himself is truly eaten and his blood truly drunk. The bread becomes his actual body, and the wine his actual blood.

12 Characteristics of Evagelistic Pastors
In almost 25 years of studying churches in North America, Chuck Lawless has never yet found an evangelistic church that was not led by a strongly evangelistic pastor. Here are some general characteristics he has seen in these pastors....

Eight Demons Pastors Fight...
To stay in the ministry any length of time, a pastor needs to learn to fight some predictable “demons.”

Why Keep Reading the Bible?
Barbara Lee Harper offers a list of good reasons that we should keep readig the Bible.

Imagine Reading ‘The Lord of the Rings’ the Way You Read the Bible
Greg Gilbert think the key to reading the Bible is to understand that all of the authors and books of the Bible—all 1,189 chapters of them—are actually working together to tell one overarching, mind-blowing story about God’s action to save human beings from their high-handed rebellion against him, and from the effects and consequences of that rebellion. And the thing is, the story of how he did that is quite literally epic in its scope and its sweep.

How to Read the Psalms
Here are five ways for how to read the psalms for all who long to lead biblical worship discover a rich and vital gift in the Bible’s longest book.

10 Things I Didn't Do to Improve My Congregation's Singing
Scott Connell identifies 10 common mistakes that keep a congregation from singing.

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