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Friday, April 19, 2024

Friday's Catch: 'The Blessing of Constraints' And More


The Blessing of Constraints
Early in the pandemic, a friend recommended the book A Beautiful Constraint to me—a book for marketplace leaders that encourages them not to think like a victim when an unforeseen constraint happens, and not even to think like a neutralizer who simply works around the constraint, but to think like a transformer and view the constraint as a gift. The book helped me ask the question: “How can the pandemic actually help us launch new congregations?”

Near Chicago, a Lutheran church finds new life at the YMCA
A struggling Lutheran church has found new life by giving its building to the YMCA.

Open-Air Celebration
St. David’s in Washington, D.C., grows by taking its gatherings into the neighborhood.

How Does Church Planting Benefit the Sending Church?
Here are six ways.

4 Habits of A Healthy Team
Commit to creating a healthy culture for your team that supports, encourages, and propels the mission forward.

Making People Want to Listen to Your Sermon
Forty-seven seconds. If you are a preacher — or, really, any kind of public speaker, you have 47 seconds to catch your listener’s attention. How do I know that? Keep reading and you’ll find out.

Why We Preachers Need Sermon Feedback
If teachers of God’s Word want to continually refine our craft, we should build formal sermon feedback into our schedules.

The Great Rewiring of Childhood
....the younger generation today is different from the generations that came before it. That difference is expressed in many different ways, though perhaps the ones we notice most are the levels of anxiety experienced by young people along with their relationship to social media.

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