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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.

From Monolithic to Multiethnic

How understanding the mystery of the gospel transformed a church.

Back to Prayer Gatherings

Planning is not about writing a script or being unnecessarily controlling but instead about building a platform to welcome the presence of God.

5 Creative Leaders Share Their Secrets

How to get the most out of your team and inspire them to creativity and productivity.

Are You Sharing the One Story?

If we just take the Bible in isolated parts, we miss the flow of God. And the flow is important to understanding that the Gospel isn’t just a group of ideas.

Where Do You Go for Complete and Total Fulfillment?

How did I get here? This certainly isn’t how I imagined my life turning out. In fact, it’s more than that - this isn’t how it ought to be at all!

More Than Clicking ‘Like’

I pray that I will not evaluate the music style in my church with a like button. Instead, I pray that I will be grateful to those who give of themselves every week to provide us with worshipful music.

Saying ‘I’m Sorry’ Is Transformative

Use whichever you feel seems most authentic and sounds like yourself. For me, I prefer, “I apologize.” I just said that to someone today and it saved a relationship. It’s freeing. It’s therapeutic. It’s the Christ-like and right thing to do.

Dave Ferguson: Ask the Right Question

Reproducing churches replace “grow” with “multiply” because they want to see the kingdom expand from Jerusalem to the ends of the earth.