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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.

The Self-Deception of Self-Improvement

Why the promise of self-improvement is false.

Will This Season Be a Moment or a Movement for Justice?

"Our hope, then, must be marked by a courage which compels us to stand up amid apathy and violence and be counted among the disturbers of a false peace."

Where Are You Finding Your Identity?

Finding our identity when the places we would go to give us a sense of who we are are taken from us

How to Reach the People Who Have Stopped Attending

5 approaches churches are using to bring people back

When No Is the Answer to Your Prayers

10 things to do when it feels like God is saying no

How the Past Year Will Alter Onsite Gatherings in the Future

How physical gatherings will be forever changed

What to Do When You’ve Lost Your Confidence as a Leader

You're not alone. Twenty-nine percent of pastors have given serious consideration to quitting full-time ministry in the last year.

How Can I Serve Christ When I Feel So Unworthy?

How God uses imperfect people to accomplish his will