Our respect for previous generations often creates a crisis when the moment comes for our generation to assume responsibility for the Lord’s work.
Strengthening Your Hand in God
Anyone can encourage someone else. It’s encouraging them in God that distinguishes our worldly friendships from those in the body of Christ.
Resource Highlight: Wes Crawford and Summer Seminar
As a church historian, I have been invited to join this panel in order to explain how an understanding of the past can help us chart a healthy path forward.
God is Not on Your Side
It is important to remember that our purpose is to discern God’s will for how to live, and choose that.
Striking Rocks: Losing Sight of God
The moral of the story is to be wary of striking rocks as leaders of God’s people. We need to steer away from the temptation to make what we do about ourselves.
A Bigger Tent: The Secret to Church Unity (Part 1)
Acts 15 provides a witness to the 21st century church, revealing a way forward in a religious world that doesn’t notice how big the tent actually is.
A (Humorous) Look at Human Resources for Churches
One minister shares candid insights from years of navigating churches’ interviewing and hiring processes.
The Deaf: The Most Unreached, Unengaged People Group
Do you ever wonder why it is that so many Deaf people do not know Jesus?
One Thing Never Changes!
In a time when things are changing rapidly, the one thing that brings order in the chaos is the thing that does not change.
The Importance of Story
Stories are what it means to be human. Our brains are bent to creating a narrative to explain and quantify what we encounter.
Spiral of Silence
Have you been in a small group discussion but felt unable to give your opinion?
O Be Careful, Little Eyes
All of us are conditioned to see the world in certain ways. We are taught to see some things, and not others.
Hide and Seek
It’s a strange thing when we put God in the role of the hider and us in the role of the finder. That’s not the biblical story at all.
Jonah and the Second Word of the Lord
I can’t help but wonder what it would look like to be someone who obeyed the first time the word of the Lord came to me.
The Wool We Wear (Part 2)
“Find the lost sheep!” we cry in our pre-rescue briefing, night-vision goggles on and machetes raised.
Help Me Pass On My Faith to My Grandchildren
As grandparents, we can—and should—be active in the spiritual formation of our grandchildren.
The Subject of Our Fears: Finding Faith in an Anxious World
The hope of Christianity embraces a world of hopelessness. Ours is the most real hope of all, because death sits at its center.
Awkward Conversations are Better than Raccoons in Your Attic
The avoidance is only going to allow time for more damage.
All of You is Welcome Here
To love is to invite each other to bring our full selves and all of our experiences to the relationship.
Back from Death: A New England Church’s Story of Revitalization
Hope continued to rise as we engaged with new people in the community.