Seeing, Hearing, Connecting: Multimedia in the Church
The lights fade in the sanctuary of Point of Grace Church, and the 12-by-9-foot video screen comes aflame with images from a high-powered projector...
Calling All Kids: Outreach Especially for Children
Is your church missing what George Barna calls the “greatest evangelistic window available?“Alert:Of the estimated 160 million Christians in America today, 70 percent of...
‘Wondered’ Into Someone's Heart Today?
In April 2003, National Public Radio aired a news story about a standoff between an angry mob of Iraqi Shiites and a heavily armored...
Welcome to PornSunday
The crowd is diverse on a recent Sunday morning at The People’s Church in Franklin, Tenn., full of unfamiliar faces not usually part of...
The Coming Multi-Site Church Revolution
On Sunday morning at Seacoast Church in Charleston, S.C. (seacoastchurch.org), a worship band launches into a hard-driving chorus while a video projects lyrics and...
Hope Again: Marriage Ministry
Kimberly Kirkland’s husband arrived home from work one evening in 1999 and announced, “I hate my life. I hate my wife. I hate my...
The Power of Alpha
An Alpha course brought 55-year-old Jim Geiger to church for the first time in years. He arrived at St. Peter’s Episcopal Church in Louisville,...
Small Church – Big Adventure
When Pattie Sewell, pastor of Green Ridge Presbyterian Church in Roanoke, Va. (greenridgepres.org), stopped one Sunday morning to talk to neighborhood children at their...
The American Church in Crisis
Attendance is down. The picture is bleak. New research reveals startling and sobering facts. What do they mean for you, your church and Christianity...
Common Size, Uncommon Impact
Thousands of small churches across the United States are changing the spiritual landscape around them in extraordinary ways. They’re thriving right where they’re at—not...
Cowboy Churches Wrangle Souls
Congregations like Texas’ no-frills Frontier Church offer a down-home approach to the Gospel In the famous words of cowboy legend Roy Rogers, “There are...
Starting Something: Some Advice
“If you build it, they will come.”
That’s what Andrew Sears and I believed. We were two urban ministers who loved tech and wanted to...
Church in the City
Although they are different New York City churches with very different audiences, Redeemer Presbyterian and Infinity Church are part of the same multiplication equation...
Cell Biology for the Church: Why Small Groups Don’t Multiply
Trouble-shoot Your Small Groups
Getting to Know Today’s Unchurched (part 2)
A few weeks ago, Mark and Julia saw a moving truck parked across the street from their house. The following day, they went to...
Better Together: Partnering with Your Community
Is your church struggling to meet the needs of your community alone? You don’t have to.
Hispanics in America
Who are today’s Hispanics and how can your church reach them? Take an in-depth look at this exploding population and learn why churches nationwide...
Missions as Fasting
The following is notes taken during the session, not a manuscript. The full manuscript is available as a PDF.
I'm not Japanese. I'm Korean. And there is...
Historical Evidence for the Resurrection
The historical evidence for the resurrection of Christ is very good. Scholars such as William Lane Craig, J.P. Moreland, Gary Habermas, and others have...
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Pastor Who Joined Migrant Caravan Treated ‘like family’
Pastor Gavin Rogers didn't know what to expect when he landed in Mexico City, intent on joining the migrant caravan making their way from Central America to the United States. What he found surprised him.
New Podcasts
Lysa Terkeurst: How to Lead When Your Private Life Is Being...
Lysa Terkeurst faced a major blow to her marriage and two life-threatening illnesses in a relatively short amount of time. She shares how she managed to keep faith in God and keep leading even while her personal life was being severely shaken.
