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In an era of evangelicalism where there are church ministries built around the idea of “family,” marriage has become the focus of countless books and sermons and “family friendly” entertainment has become synonymous with “Christian” entertainment, is there a risk of distorting what the biblical inte
Many evangelical churches and denominations are in a state of plateau or decline. Why aren’t Pentecostals?
How can your church help millennials see the value in church as a way to grow closer to God?
Daybreak Fellowship blends language of addiction recovery with Christian worship
Like it or not, consumer culture has shaped people’s expectations for church, and this is more true for Millennials than any other generation. So what do they think of church? What pushes them away and draws them in? And when they do visit a church, how are they hoping to be approached?
So how do you engage older church attendees… say people over age 50? The question’s been around a long time. And, as most church leaders could tell you, it’s a bit of a loaded question. It’s also a question I’m...Read More→
Churches must understand—and move toward—an outward focus
There is an intensifying controversy in the church all over the world regarding the age of the earth.
I grew up in the Church. No really, I grew up in the church.<br>As a pastor’s kid, I spent countless hours in church and doing church activities. I am a church native and familiar with all its quirks and cultural oddities, with all its strengths and all its failings. As the son of prominent evangelic
Is our obsession with big churches rooted in mission our just our desire for “big”?
Evangelical churches have lost many moderate members and have become more virulent without losing their power.
When leadership changes, so do churches. A pastor who has been there before shares lessons learned and tips to make things work well right from the start.
The word "evangelical" is one of the most abused words in our culture and even in the church. Earlier in my adult life, I almost always encountered this ...
I’m sixty-five years old. In the time and culture in which I grew up, equality for women just didn’t exist—not in the church and not in the workplace. But I also had the privilege of
Young people have left evangelical churches and are still leaving.
I thought God was intervening to save my love life.
If you haven’t heard about being “woke” then that means that you aren’t. Over the last year or so evangelicals have been calling for evangelical churches to get woke so that they might more su
The tax code allows for some strange political shenanigans.