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Monday, February 22, 2021
Five Practies of Fruitful Congregations
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"Radical Hospitality. Passionate Worship. Intentional Faith Development. Risk-Taking Mission and Service. Extravagant Generosity. Peop...
Sunday, February 21, 2021
All Hallows Evening Prayer for Sunday Evening (February 21, 2021) Is Now Online
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All Hallows Evening Prayer is a service of worship in the evening for all pilgrims on the journey to the heavenly city. When we become a fol...
Saturday, February 20, 2021
20 Truths from ‘How to Revive Evangelism’ by Craig Springer
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“Evangelism training should have as its utmost priority developing and training great listeners.” 1. "In the US especially, the instinc...
Saturday Lagniappe: How to Convince People to Get Involved in Small Groups and More
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How to Convince People to Get Involved in Small Groups We must be intentional in how we lead our congregations in order to shape a culture ...
All Hallows Evening Prayer for Saturday Evening (February 20, 2021)
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All Hallows Evening Prayer is a service of worship in the evening for all pilgrims on the journey to the heavenly city. The Scripture readin...
Friday, February 19, 2021
Faith in Numbers: Behind the Gender Difference of Nonreligious Americans
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One of the most consequential stories in American religion in recent years is the rapid and seemingly unceasing rise of “nones ” – those who...
Incentives to Decline: Why Some Churches Really Don't Want to Grow
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Your congregation has been in significant decline for years. Members acknowledge that something must be done to reverse the decline. Plans a...
“I Believe in Jesus, but Don’t Call Me Christian”
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“Younger people are less religious than older people.” Across the board, this proves to be true. Doesn’t really matter what country one obse...
Here’s Why People REJECT Our Evangelism Efforts
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One in five Americans don’t believe in a deity. Less than half of the population attends religious services on a regular basis. Our evangeli...
It’s Never Just a Wave
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The garage door opens, the car pulls in, the door closes. Neighbors remain faceless and anonymous. Wash, rinse, repeat. Cue worldwide pandem...
Is It Time to Shoot Your Project On A Mobile Phone?
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When I started out in television production, the cost of a camera was out of sight. And depending on it being a film or video project, the c...
Thursday, February 18, 2021
Seven Reasons Why None of the Continuing Anglican Churches Are a Suitable Candidate for a Third US Anglican Province
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By Robin G Jordan I have for a long time held the opinion that none of the raft of US Continuing Anglican jurisdictions are a suitable candi...
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Craig Springer: Listening to Proclaim—Part 1
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“The megachurch era of the ’80s, ’90s and early 2000s, founded on a desire for anonymity, is shifting because people are longing to be know...
10 Things You Should Know about the African Church
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Did you know that you can partner with Crossway to equip African pastors and church leaders with gospel-centered resources? Get involved . ...
9 Steps to Unite a Disjointed Discipleship Community
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The days following 9/11 were passionate, patriotic days. I remember sitting in long lines at gas stations behind big trucks with giant Ameri...
75 Icebreaker Questions for Church Small Groups
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From theology to accountability, church small groups can cover some heavy topics—causing some members to be slow to open up. But sometimes a...
8 Easy Ways to Be Missional
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Missional is not an event we tack onto our already busy lives. It is our life. Mission should be the way we live, not something we add onto ...
Wednesday, February 17, 2021
All Hallows Evening Prayer for Ash Wednesday (February 17, 2021) Is Now Online
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All Hallows Evening Prayer is a service of worship in the evening for all pilgrims on the journey to the heavenly city. With this Wednesday ...
Learning to Respond to Church Crises
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COVID revealed challenges for evangelical churches, not the least of which is authority and leadership in the church. How do you respond to ...
Three Reasons Churches Resist Change
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We often hear that people resist change. I’m not sure that’s entirely accurate. We’ll tackle that partial truth another time. For now, let’...
4 Groups the Church Must Reach in a Post-Christian Era
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“What’s church?” That’s one question my kids weren’t used to hearing. But one morning, a boy who lived down the street knocked on the front...
Christian Meditation
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"I will meditate on Your precepts, and contemplate Your ways."— Psalm 119:1 5 Reading through the Bible in a year is a good pra...
Tuesday, February 16, 2021
A Penitential Service for the First Day of Lent, also Known as Ash Wednesday, Is Now Online
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For those who are unable to attend an Ash Wednesday Service at their own church or who do not have a church at which they can attend an Ash ...
If I Were Starting A Denomination From Scratch
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As many of you will know, our church is in the process of leaving our denomination. It has been a long and exhausting process. If you want t...
Don’t Fill Every Open Moment with Content
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When I’m waiting in line to order my drink at a coffee shop, my automatic instinct is to grab for my phone. Not to do anything necessary, o...
Key Signs of an Abusive Pastor #1: A Long Track Record of Broken Relationships
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I’ve been making my way through a new blog series on spiritual abuse in the church which I am calling “Bully Pulpit” . In the prior install...
Why Your Church’s Chat Box Is Essential
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Reasons to have someone engaging with your online audience during your services. As a result of worship being online for many churches and e...
Top Advice from Audio Techs, Technical Directors, and Worship Leaders
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In the early days of Behind the Mixer (way before the podcast), I interviewed a number of people and today, I’ve consolidated those intervie...
VIDEO: What Is Christianity?
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The message at the heart of Christianity is pretty simple. This three-minute video introduces what it's all about. Watch Now A resource...
Monday, February 15, 2021
Confessional Anglicanism and Prayer Book Revision
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By Robin G Jordan Historic formularies such as the Articles of Religion of 1571 and The Book of Common Prayer of 1662 have no inherent autho...
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