When Ministry Becomes Life-Draining
Everyday church ministry demands that we sooth someone’s hurt feelings, solve a ministry problem, seek new ways to grow our churches, or satisfy what seems to be some church members’ increasing expectations.
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Climbing Out of a Funk
I needed to feel the pressure - the good pressure of necessity.
Servant Leadership in a Nutshell
Insights from Max De Pree on 4 essential characteristics of an effective leader
Beyond the Creation-Evolution Debate
Overlaying the maps of these two intellectual worlds—the Bible’s and evolutionary science’s—will illuminate perspectives within the Creation-Evolution Debate and how they conceptualize the world we know today.
Your Emotional Life and Spiritual Life Are Connected
The truth is that emotions never die. They are only buried alive. They always resurface, leaking into other parts of our lives and relationships.
Dru Johnson
Putting aside the historicity of the creation—the what-actually-happened question—significant and irreconcilable tensions remain between the Hebraic conceptual world and that of some evolutionary sciences.
Ed Stetzer: What to Make of AI and the Church
It’s one thing to ask AI to help with sermon title ideas; for AI and the Church, it’s another to replace the study of God’s Word, and the work of the Holy Spirit, with ideas pulled together by AI.
Dreaming Through the Difficulty
Do not allow the past to dictate your church's future. Free yourself by dreaming of what can be as you work together to accomplish God's plans.
Giving, the Gift of Happiness
Sure, receiving a gift is great, and our hearts should be full of praise to God for what he has given us—first and foremost his Son, but also thousands of other smaller gifts we seldom think about. The gift of happiness can be found in generosity and choosing to give.
