Friday's Catch: '4 Reasons Your Church Needs Domestic Violence Awareness Training' And More

4 Reasons Your Church Needs Domestic Violence Awareness Training

Training on domestic violence will equip church leaders with an awareness of its prevalence and God’s deep care for those who are abused.

6 Preaching Mistakes You Can Make in the First 5 Minutes
If you’re a speaker, preacher, or communicator of any kind, it really doesn’t matter how great your content — if you can’t connect, you can’t communicate. And these six common preaching mistakes work directly against your connection.

50 Preaching Tips in 15 Minutes
In this video, H.B. Charles Jr. shares fifty practical tips to help you preach faithfully, clearly, and better. These pieces of advice address the personal devotion, sermon preparation, and pulpit ministry. Of course, these fifty pointers are not exhaustive. But, hopefully, you will find these helpful hints beneficial to your Word work.

How to Make Gospel-Centered Applications
Host Tony Merida chats with pastor, author, and long-time ministry partner J.D. Greear to discuss the implications of addressing the heart as we preach the Word of God. Here’s how the gospel reaches beyond moralization and leads to real life transformation.

10 Tips to Create Great Worship Vocals
If your objective is to increasing your congregation's participation in the worship music of your Sunday gatherings, these tips are not for you. If, however, you are seeking to improve the vocal performance of a small musical ensemble, you may find them helpful.

While Jamie Harvill offers some good advice for worship bands and their vocalists, he treats congregational singing as if it is secondary, even talking about a time when the congregation sings. If the worship at a Sunday gathering is to be corporate and to involve the whole assembly, the congregation must do the most of the singing. The worship band's role is to lead and support the congregational singing. Its performance of special music is secondary.

Lectio Divina: An Ancient Prayer and Bible Reading Practice
Brandon Cox shares the way he approaches lectio divina.

How to Help Women Delve Deeply into the Word of God
This article aims to provide valuable insights and practical tips to help you initiate or rejuvenate a women’s Bible study group that will foster vibrant, life-changing discipleship experiences for women of all ages.

Youth Talk Tips: How to Share Powerful Messages With Teens
Here’s the most amazing structure ever used for youth talks: Hook, Book, Look, Took!

7 Words of Encouragement for Leaders of Small Groups
For those small group pastors lacking the gift of encouragement, maybe some of these phrases are phrases you could speak to a small-group leaders.

You Choose What You Focus On
You rarely get to choose your circumstances. You can’t stop world hunger, pandemics, or global economic conditions. But you can choose what you focus on.

What Unforgiveness Does to Your Brain
Unforgiveness can keep our bodies and brains in this state of high alertness and leads to these unhealthy results.

Mississippi’s largest UMC church votes to leave the denomination
A congregation that is said to be the largest United Methodist Church body in Mississippi voted overwhelmingly to leave the mainline Protestant denomination.