Friday, April 05, 2024

Friday's Catch: '7 Preliminary Steps When Initiating Major Change' And More


...when making major change – change which impacts everyone – change which may be controversial – there are some steps to take before you begin to implement the change.

A Parish’s Commitment to “People Who Are More Challenging to House”
The story behind the 18-unit apartment house rising in the lot behind St. Paul’s Church in White River Junction began in a moment of prayer. Then things got complicated.

Only Bad Calvinism Abandons Souls: The Story Behind a Missions Revival
A persistent critique of Reformation theology is that a high view of God’s sovereignty reduces evangelistic zeal. While the criticism is often misguided, the danger is not historically unprecedented. Church history bears witness to unbiblical understandings of God’s sovereignty and human responsibility. In the eighteenth century, one such view choked the life out of many Reformed Baptist and Congregational churches in England.

Why Cancel Culture Needs the Breathtaking Mercy of God’s Kingdom
The merciless approach of cancel culture drives us away from what sinful people like you and me most need: mercy.

Pastoring is Tortoise Work: A Lesson for the Young and Aspiring
As a young man, aspiring to the noble task of pastoring, do you recognize your need to learn patience? Do you see in yourself a tendency to idolize immediacy? Are you frustrated when things don’t happen as quickly as you expect?

7 Things We May Wish the Bible Didn’t Say About Worship
Some Bible verses about worship make us uncomfortable. Here are seven things you may wish the Bible didn’t say about worship.

‘Broken Churches, Broken Nation?’ A crisis of our times
There seems to be a closer link between the denominational schisms and the coming of the war than has been commonly recognized.
Is the nation really "broken"? Or are we allowing those who are promoting for their own personal advantage a false narrative that the nation is "broken"to dominate the conversation?
1 in 5 Americans think violence may solve U.S. divisions, poll finds
One in 5 U.S. adults believe Americans may have to resort to violence to get their own country back on track, according to the latest PBS NewsHour/NPR/Marist poll, an attitude that experts say puts the nation in “an incredibly dangerous place” in the months before the 2024 presidential election.

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