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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.

Suffering From Spiritual Anemia

We need not starve our souls or allow our relationship with God through Christ to fade like the dying embers of an untended fire. We can seek the face of God.

No Place for Sin in Heaven

The old order will have once and for all passed away, and God will replace it with a new order—one that is fundamentally transformed.

12 Tips for Preaching Online

Be mindful as you prepare messages that you are speaking to an audience that encompasses more than those in the room with you.

3 Ways to Be Frustrated With Your Church

As consumers, we expect a certain degree of service and preferential treatment in exchange for our loyalty. We expect our needs and desires to be catered to.

Preacher, Don’t Blow It During the Invitation

What is the invitation I’m referring to? The Gospel invitation! It’s the moment when a preacher invites unbelievers to believe and the lost to be saved.

Truth Is Key for the Future of Our Faith

A commitment to unvarnished truth as a permanent value would protect a culture from corruption and other forces of power.

7 Questions to Evaluate Your Worship Service

How to know if your gathering accomplished what it was meant to accomplish

Homesick for Heaven

Nothing is more often misdiagnosed than our homesickness for Heaven.

Ed Stetzer: The Power of Small

Small churches present opportunities for community and care that larger churches must work harder to cultivate.