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Creating Great Church Guest First Impressions

How you treat people who are new to your church can be the difference between your church growing or getting stuck.

Rediscover the Wonder of Christmas

Many years before the birth of Jesus Christ, God becoming a child, there was a prophecy in Isaiah 9:2, 6­­–7 that declared the coming of this child as the hope and wonder of this world.

Why Leaders Lead With Prayer

Imagine attempting to lead without strength, without guidance, and without defense. Personally, I would consider it both terrifying and utterly futile.

Stop Making ‘Christian’ Things

Jesus didn't make Christian furniture. He made good furniture.

The Only Firm Foundation

When God provided you with a foundation in Jesus, he had every one of your life’s storms in mind.

13 Things We Learned During COVID

Leadership lessons to carry into the next season

The Myth of the ‘Undeserving’ Poor

Why asking if people in need are ‘deserving’ or ‘undeserving’ is the wrong question

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