Lessons Learned After Seminary
That love is the most important in serving the church. I don’t think much was said or written way back about relationships with people and kindness and things that God says are most important.
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What Can the Church Learn about Suicide?
Yet within the Christian community, where openness and grace should flow the richest and deepest, where the masks are meant to come off and safety offered to all, owning depression is virtually taboo. There is an unwritten rule that people of faith shouldn’t be depressed.
The Benefits and Challenges of a Business as Mission Strategy
The world is changing rapidly. Globalization, the expansion of cities and the increase of the middle class have created new and different opportunities for missions. This, in turn, creates the need for new and different missions strategies. With this in mind, a Business as Mission strategy can and should be a part of a missions strategy for the 2020s and beyond. Here are a few reasons why BAM is a valuable missions strategy and ways to overcome certain challenges.
When Church Members Cause Frustration
Perhaps it’s because the strained connections and harsh words feed into my own insecurities. Or maybe it’s because there are so many more of the blessed times.
Rick and Randy Bezet: God’s Unlikely Call into Ministry — Part 1
“It’s been a time of such division. The church started getting angry at the world, and the world angry at the church, and then the church at the church.”—Rick Bezet
Being Fully Myself
The message of assimilation makes me uncomfortable because it requires me to celebrate the loss of other people’s culture, traditions, and languages in order to alleviate the fears that white people, including Christians, might have about a diverse society where their position as power brokers of society may be threatened.
What Are the Benefits of Diversity Among Church Leaders?
In a church, the faces the congregation sees on the stage matter. If all the faces are the same race, gender, or age, they often assume that’s who’s welcome in that church.
The Conference on Gen Z, Mental Health, & Religion
You will learn from members of Gen Z themselves and then apply the research in break-out room conversations cohosted by organizations in your faith tradition, empowering you to turn the tide for young people everywhere.
What God Does in an Instant Far Outweighs What We Attempt in a Lifetime
What do you need God to do in your life? What problems are you facing? Have you been trying to do it all in your flesh, or are you remembering to depend on the Holy Spirit?
Lead on Purpose
Becoming a better shepherd or a better leader never happens by accident, and it doesn’t simply happen over time. Men and women who improve their pastoral capacity or their leadership do so with great effort and on purpose. Here are a few helpful suggestions to start improving. If you are going to an appointment that … Continued
