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In Prayer, We Are Fully Seen and Fully Known How intimacy with God fuels Meg Baatz’s ministry among same-sex-attracted and LGBT peers. Wh...

How To Lead Those Who Don’t Want To Follow I wish I could say, :I never had this problem." You Can’t Just Put Kids in Church You ha...

  In yesterday’s article, “Jesus Taught Us to Be Loving But Not Naïve,” I do not think that I adequately explained what I meant. I also thin...

I am going to make a statement that may offend you. For a follower of Jesus, people, including other Christians, who encourage us to think, ...

  All Hallows Evening Prayer is a service of worship in the evening for all pilgrims on the journey to the heavenly city. God sometimes answ...

7 Questions to Help You Better Know (and Love) Your Community How well do you know your community? Do you know it well enough to help your ...

Yesterday I got to preach to our small local church plant on John 10:16 – “And I have other sheep that are not of this fold. I must bring th...

It is often very helpful for some Christians who struggle with prayer to think of it in terms of “talking to Dad.” This can help take some o...

As a new children's ministry leader, director or pastor, you may think you have everything under control and know what to expect. Nothi...

I did some late night research on shunning. Someone may use shunning as a way of punishing someone else. The person whom they are shunning m...

  I feel down in the dumps when life takes an unexpected twist, or something happens that catches me off guard. Maybe I should have seen it ...

  All Hallows Evening Prayer is a service of worship in the evening for all pilgrims on the journey to the heavenly city. We find no direc...

Scot McKnight: Why Legalism Isn’t What You Think This is the longer of the two articles by Scott McKnight to which I am posting links. In t...

All Hallows Evening Prayer is a service of worship in the evening for all pilgrims on the journey to the heavenly city. One thing I have not...

The Importance of Affirming Online Attendance As James Emery White points out, Hebrews 10:24-25 is not about physical gathering, as some ch...

People who are contrary are going to stubbornly do what they want to do regardless of what others think or say. They are going to stubbornly...

Are We the Baddies? "The perception of Christians as the "bad guys" by a growing proportion of our society has come about la...

I took a nap late yesterday afternoon and woke up with this thought on my mind, “Why are we needlessly unkind to each other? Why do we needl...

There are few churches that have no members who bear painful scars related to domestic abuse. There are few churches where pastors and membe...

Let’s be honest. There are certain types of people we are conditioned, by our culture, to not like. These are the people that nobody is goi...

It took three weeks of scheduled meetings, at least three law firms, dozens of statements, hours of closed-door briefings, and extensive bac...

A ll  Hallows Evening Prayer is a service of worship in the evening for all pilgrims on the journey to the heavenly city. Wednesday evening’...

Ministry in small towns and rural settings requires a special skill set. The congregations tend to be family-sized with a long history but ...

A Book of Good News Many of us approach the Bible not as oxygenating, but as suffocating. We see the Bible lying there on the end table. We ...

Easy Youth Group Games: 7 Circle Games Need a couple of easy youth group games to keep in your back pocket? Circle games are by far my fav...

More leaders and state conventions are putting pressure on the Executive Committee ahead of this week’s meeting. As controversy escalates su...

I n the Church Leaders article, “4 Types of Bad Friends That Are Bad for Your Marriage,” Ashely Willis makes this point, “We often become l...