We’ve all seen the headlines: Johnny can’t read anymore. Reading scores are plummeting. Forty-six percent of Americans didn’t read a single book in the past year. Young people no longer read for pleasure. The ability of most college students to comprehend even a paragraph of decent English prose is all but non-existent. We don’t even need to click the links or read the studies. We all have plenty of our own anecdotes to back them up at this point.
And we all know why: It’s the screens, dummy.
8 Things Caregivers Should Know About Dementia
Dementia can drive a caregiver either to exasperation or to the cross.
From Titles to Teamwork: Strengthening Your Staff With 5 Clarity Questions
Most often, staff challenges are rooted in a lack of clarity. There are five clarity questions that will help strengthen your staff team.
>What Happened to Our Pastor?
In recent years, the church has suffered numerous reports of catastrophic moral failure by some of its most talented and visible leaders. But it isn’t only famous, highly regarded pastors who falter. It happens to all sorts of pastors from churches large, small, and mid-sized. They hail from every nation and every branch of Christendom. Their sins violate all sorts of biblical standards—and not just the most obvious ones of abuse of power and sexual sin; some leave the faith, dishonor authorities, take their own lives, break vows, misuse funds, plagiarize, covet, and more. Why are so many pastors failing in these ways? Is moral failure among pastors really as much of an epidemic as it seems? How can we have confidence in our leaders amidst all the bad news?
As we consider these questions, we’ll discuss here four potential explanations that have been offered. Two of these, while having some merit, I believe fail to get at the heart of the matter; the other two, I think, come closer to helping us understand the real issues affecting how and why pastors fail, and the church’s own role in that process.
Understanding AVoIP
Keeping up with changes in technology can be a challenge for churches of all sizes even at the best of times. But for those churches that don’t have dedicated staff who have expertise in audio, video and lighting (AVL), it is especially hard.
Because there’s a big change that is already happening in the church tech world, I want to set you on the best path to adapt your equipment so that you don’t have to catch up later—and spend a lot of money to do it.
How to Repent of Sin and Rejoice in Christ Together with a Discipleship Group
How can we fight the good fight of faith? I want to explain the concept of “discipleship groups” as a way for all disciples to fight for what is noble and beautiful. My hope is that discipleship groups will help you experience victory over the world, the flesh, and the devil and enjoy Jesus Christ.
Discipleship groups are small, simple groups of two to four people who meet regularly to repent of sin, rejoice in Christ, and reproduce disciples. Men meet with men and women meet with women in order to effectively address gender-specific issues head-on. I have been in discipleship groups for years. Some have been better than others. Along the way, I’ve discovered groups that make the gospel central are much more effective and enjoyable.
What Does It Mean to Exhort One Another?
You know the experience. Someone in your church or among your friends says something distasteful, does something concerning. A little alarm bell goes off inside you, but you decide not to say anything. Surely it’s an anomaly....
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