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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.

Listen Closely When You Get Mad

If we find ourselves getting angry, chances are the anger was already in our hearts. The circumstance was just the thing that got us going.

Planting a Sending Church

Your church is not just for your neighborhood, but for the nations.

Making Wise Leadership Decisions

It is often a judgment call of whether to say yes or no.

Spiritual Backstories

Churches can be places where followers of Christ carefully listen to and pray through people’s life stories with empathy, extending the kind of care and grace that Jesus showed everyone, regardless of their backstory.

A Legacy of People-Building

A life spent helping people is a beautiful life

How Do You Know if the Holy Spirit Is Moving?

Too many prayer-focused Christians lock themselves in a room, claim to get filled with the Spirit, but then never go out of their prayer closets to share the Good News.

Is Your Church Stuck?

Some church leaders question whether asking numerical numbers borders on the idolatry of numbers. Others simply don’t worry about attendance numbers.

7 Reasons I Love Evangelists

How those with the gift of evangelism can inspire the rest of us.