Do you remember bus ministry? I recall a time when those of us enamored with church growth smirked about bus ministry and considered it a fad at best.
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Do you remember bus ministry? I recall a time when those of us enamored with church growth smirked about bus ministry and considered it a fad at best.
The greatest gift a parent can give a child is permission to become the person God created him or her to be.
It seems to be true that when you work for a church, the ups and downs and gains and losses have a deeper significance than in other industries.
Preachers and other proclaimers of the gospel should pay attention to how this podcast creates an audience for people who have a testimony.
As a minister of a small congregation, one of the greatest blessings for me is witnessing intergenerational ministry continue to take root in the church in organic ways.
If you want to change a system, you have to change something about the way it relates and interacts with the other parts.
Long before the "Keep Calm and Carry On" posters were so popular and parodied, Charlie Siburt was teaching us the importance of the non-anxious presence.
Contrary to how it’s regarded in some circles, missional hospitality is not an outreach strategy.
Christmas on Sunday puts church leaders in a Solomon-type predicament where we fear our only option is to make people decide between Christmas at home or keeping their commitment to church worship.
Perhaps we need to look on those in jail with more humility and grace, as God looks on us sinners.
I have noticed a trend toward equating "prophetic preaching" with a confrontational, rough and tough style of delivery.
In the world of ancient Israel and the text of the Old Testament we stumble over one name after another that means something (often a clue or insight into the story we are reading).
Participation in short-term mission trips exposes church leaders to God’s work in the world we share.
Campus ministries do not steal away Christian students who should be enrolling at a Christian college. Rather, campus ministries are missional groups striving to make disciples for Christ.
When you are a preacher or teacher, every experience becomes a raw material for teaching. I hope the implications of this analogy are obvious and you might come up with your own in your messages.
Ultimately, I am praising God for inviting all of us to partner together to fulfill God’s purposes; we were never called to shoulder the work on our own.
I do not deceive myself into thinking that I have ever met that standard for even a minute out of my best ministerial hour, but I am not willing to lower my standard.
Christian community exists when believers connect with each other in authentic and loving ways that encourage growth in Christ.
We are now utterly inundated by insincere, dollar-faced words, to such an extent that we can’t always distinguish between words of authenticity and the words of a sales pitch.
The Trellis and the Vine is a metaphor the authors use to introduce a mind-shift in ministry that they insist will change everything.
