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  7 Prayers for Your Church and Pastor This Christmas We are all able to pray and talk with God about anything. Sometimes, it can help to have a framework that propels us into specific prayers for others. Today, we are going to take the time to seek the Lord... Emma Danzey Dec 20, 2024
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  5 Ways to Greet All the New Faces at Church This Christmas Hospitality is more than an open home; it is an open heart. If the church neglects to be hospitable, we miss the opportunity to welcome new people into the gift of community in which we have been involved.... Emma Danzey Dec 20, 2024
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  17 Ways Christians Can Give Back this Christmas If your gift is to encourage others, be encouraging. If it is giving, give generously. If God has given you leadership ability, take the responsibility seriously. And if you have a gift for showing kindness... Carrie Lowrance Dec 19, 2024
• 5 Ways to Get Christmas Visitors to Keep Coming Back to Your Church Christmas is one of those special times when you might see people in church who haven’t been around in a while. You know the joke; this is when the "CEOs" show up (Christmas and Easter Only). And while it’s... Clarence L. Haynes Jr. Dec 19, 2024
• 9 Signs of an Abusive Church Church is supposed to be a place where you can go to be discipled and built up in your walk with the Lord. Some have even called it a hospital for the hurting. If this is true, and church should be a place... Clarence L. Haynes Jr. Dec 18, 2024
• How Can I Make Christmas More Meaningful? Dear Roger,Economists tell us that we are on the verge of a recession. Some say that it’s 50-50 that we will or won’t have one. I’ve noticed that many families who were cutting their expenses last year are... Dr. Roger Barrier Dec 18, 2024
• 5 Habits of a Discipled Leader Here are five habits of a discipled leader from Preston Poore's book Discipled Leader: Inspiration from a Fortune 500 Executive for Transforming Your Workplace by Pursuing Christ. Chris Bolinger Dec 17, 2024
• 3 Suggestions for Pastor’s Wives and Women in Ministry This Holiday Season It’s mere days until Christmas, and if you’re a pastor’s wife or woman in ministry, you might just be feeling the pressure of the holiday season. You probably still have gifts to wrap, cards to fill out,... Rachel Baker Dec 17, 2024
• 7 Ways Churches Can Prevent Burnout in Children’s Ministry This world is filled with tired, worn-down, and burned-out people in need of rest and restoration, something Jesus willingly offers in the Bible (Matthew 11:28-30). However, these terms are not limited to... Joel Ryan Dec 16, 2024
• Is Your Mission Focus Outward This Christmas? The natural drift of the church is to turn increasingly inward. The role of its leaders is to keep turning it outward, over and over again, keeping the focus on the mission—to serve the least and the lost.... Dr. James Emery White Dec 16, 2024
• Should Pastors Be Required to Address Current Events and Issues? Some questions and topics come with simple yes or no answers. This is not one of them. For many, the obvious answer is yes, but that is not true all the time. With the idea of pastors addressing current... Clarence L. Haynes Jr. Dec 13, 2024
• Keeping the ‘Holy’ in Our Holiday Season In America, Christmas tends to be more about family, gifts, traditions and food than anything else— oftentimes with many individuals briefly acknowledging the birth of Christ in a Christmas service. Harry Hargrave Dec 13, 2024