Pastors

For many churches, choosing a program or ministry name is haphazard and unintentional. Instead, use these 3 pointers to select your next ministry name.

In my teaching ministry I often think back to it when preparing for a message. Here is the one thing that helped me most in my teaching classes: Hook, Book, Look, Took.

It is not surprising that many people struggle with this issue because the precise nature of the "unpardonable sin" is difficult to discern and many theories about it have been set forth through church history.

Clearly as Christians we do not want our politics to become our religion. We want to engage politically because we care for our country, because we pray for our leaders, and because we know the policies that are set impact people and the places we live and love.

The utter pervasiveness of evil is why Easter is such a precious holiday. Easter isn’t about candy, Sunday dresses, ham dinners, or Easter egg hunts — there's Good News in understanding Easter and spiritual warfare.

One of my favorite things about knowing the Lord is the way He surprises me. I don’t know if we often think about God as surprising. We think of Him as mysterious maybe, somewhat enigmatic. But the truth is that the element of surprise is one of God’s specialties.

The latest survey from the Pew Research Center has found that about as many churchgoers who had returned to in-person attendance six months ago...

I wish I could say I’ve not seen this before. But our congregation is rife with these stories of people who dealt with a toxic church.