Creative Lenten Activity Encourages Reflection
Lent, the forty-day period before Easter, is set aside as a season of soul-searching and repentance. The forty days of Lent reflect Jesus’s withdrawal into…
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Lent, the forty-day period before Easter, is set aside as a season of soul-searching and repentance. The forty days of Lent reflect Jesus’s withdrawal into…
At the beginning of every year, many people take time to evaluate their lives and determine new priorities and directions. The same should be true…
I spend my working days as a pastor trying to name reality for my congregation as we wind a precarious way between the heights of…
We were in a rut! I think we knew we were in a survival mode, and something needed to change. Our language reflected too much…
In all of the churches where I have worshiped and worked, the core ministry team is the same — the pastor and the musicians —…
People arrived at church for the first Sunday of a four-week stewardship emphasis. They were surprised to see a door with a door frame in…
How do your church members get information? Is everything communicated through the bulletin or announcements at church? Or do you communicate with your congregation through…
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Lovett Weems reviews a study of participation in church by adults who had dropped out of church as youth. Of all the variables studied, only…
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