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How Can We Avoid ‘Believing’ the Bible While Denying What It Actually Says?

We need to learn, and teach other people, not just to read the Bible but also how to interpret it, so they don’t end up being Bible-believing heretics or Jesus-followers who follow a Jesus different than the real Jesus of the Bible and history.

Is Gen Z Coming Back to Church?

When people born between 1997 and 2007 go to church, they attend, on average, about 23 services per year.

The Narrow Path for the Long Haul

The benefits of having faith stretch far beyond a spiritual checkbox. They seep into how I handle stress, find hope, and relate to others.

When Evangelism Makes You Cringe

Overcoming the fear and stereotypes

5 Ways We Disrespect Jesus

Nothing demonstrates unbelief better or more eloquently than our refusing to bring to the Lord an offering to testify of our looking to him for our future needs.

The Question Behind the Question

When someone is asking the leader a question, the leader needs to consider if the question is the real question or if a disguised bigger question exists.

Worship Is in Our DNA

And how the core problem of misplaced worship leads to deeper sin.

What We Misunderstand About the Church on the Corner

Successful neighborhood churches embrace a philosophy of being strategically small rather than intentionally small.

How to Tell Someone About Jesus

If you already know someone well, stay attentive to opportunities to ask questions that turn the conversation toward the gospel.

The Gospel in Times of Crisis

What we've learned from the crises of this year about sharing the gospel

3 Tips to Trusting God … Always

When circumstances seem to mount against you, when you are feeling anything other than confident, when you are shake to your core and confused about what’s happening in life - these are times when you start to feel that verb. Trust is work.