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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.

8 Ways to Waste This Next Season of Ministry

The good news is it feels like we’re entering a new season of leadership and ministry. Although the coronavirus is still with us, churches and...

6 Things I’ve Missed During This Season of Preaching to a Camera

A few weeks into this madness, the global pandemic that has resulted in the unprecedented move to not provide physical worship gatherings at our...

5 Neuroscience Tips to Help People Pay Attention to Your Sermons

One of the most disconcerting feelings we pastors experience is when we prepare a sermon and pour our heart into it, yet feel that...

8 Unhealthy Dynamics That Destroy Motivation and Momentum

I have found that regardless of how motivated I am, if the people around me are unmotivated, we aren’t going to be very successful...

The Virus and the Church

How church leaders responded during the early stages of the pandemic.

An Outreach Journey

Lessons from a church changing its culture

Why the Bible Is Wilder Than We Realize

Maurice Sendak’s parents were poor Jewish immigrants to the United States from Poland. Their family that stayed behind were all killed in the Holocaust....

6 Reasons Churches Struggle to Disciple

I believe more and more churches are working harder at what most churches call “discipleship” (which I define here as leading believers to obey...