PASTORAL MINISTRY SPIRITUAL FORMATION Uncategorized Plan for Lent: Explore Our New 2025 Devotional and Other Resources
THEOLOGY Why “Why Holiness?” May 13, 2019 0 Comment I just concluded my latest membership class, and it was the largest and most diverse membership class I’ve led yet! …
CHILDREN'S MINISTRY A New Way to Teach Kids about Salvation May 07, 2019 2 Comments A few months ago I opened up a dusty old box of Sunday school resources. How old was this box? …
PASTORAL MINISTRY Every Preacher’s Job, Every Preacher’s Dream April 29, 2019 0 Comment For all their hard-headedness and miserable failures, the people of Israel whom Moses was called to lead did get a …
FAMILY When Screen Time Becomes An Escape April 23, 2019 0 Comment Every school day, around 3:30 p.m., I start the rundown. The house gets a quick tidy. I set out graham …
SPIRITUAL FORMATION Lent: The Restoring Fire April 18, 2019 0 Comment As humans, we have a complicated relationship with fire. On the one hand, fire is responsible for allowing humanity to …
SPIRITUAL FORMATION A Devotional for Easter Sunday April 16, 2017 0 Comment For the first day of Lent, we shared Jeren Rowell’s Ash Wednesday devotional from These Forty Days: A Lenten Devotional and provided the entire reading …
CHILDREN'S MINISTRY 12 Ways to Help Students Engage and Understand the Liturgy of the Church April 19, 2017 0 Comment How do we create a service that is engaging for students but also forms and shapes them into disciples of …
FAMILY When Anger Comes Knocking: Part 2 April 20, 2017 0 Comment I am, once again, watching and learning through my children. Their anger makes me angry. Now the anger is multi-leveled, …
OUR WORLD The World Waits April 27, 2017 0 Comment Wake up early. Pray. Create before the sun comes up. Entertain the idea that came in a moment. Wrestle with …
CHILDREN'S MINISTRY The Importance of Encouraging Leadership in Children May 01, 2017 0 Comment It is always a blessing for pastors to receive words of encouragement from people in the congregation. When I was …
