Try This: Share Prominent Testimonies After Easter

For the past few years, Redeemer Church in Utica, N.Y., has run a testimony sermon series to portray how the power of the cross affects real lives. The church has scheduled three “human interest” stories with great seeker appeal. Over the years, Redeemer has featured former mobster Michael Franzese; Annie Lobert, a former sex industry worker; and infamous New York serial killer David Berkowitz via video. This series boosts normally low, post-Easter attendance to record-breaking numbers, Lead Pastor Mike Servello says.

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Trace Church: Waving the White Towel

Since Trace Church started using these white towels, baptism numbers have skyrocketed.

Unbroken Faithfulness

As we face challenge and opposition in our contexts, let’s be encouraged to keep going with consistency, moral courage and confidence in the Scriptures as God’s Word for all time—including our time.

Derwin Gray: 4 Ways to Refill

If we attempt to provide for others without first being nourished ourselves, we burn out. We wound ourselves and others.