For most churches, Easter is the best-attended Sunday of the year and many of those in attendance will be those who only attend on Christmas and Easter. Each year at this time I
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For most churches, Easter is the best-attended Sunday of the year and many of those in attendance will be those who only attend on Christmas and Easter. Each year at this time I
Some years ago, after reading David Murrow’s book, “Why Men Hate Going to Church”, I realized that most people assume that men are just less religious than women, but this is untrue. Other
Every Sunday, thousands of church leaders stand up on their church's platform and begin to speak. Like Jesus who took the scroll of Isaiah, read a passage, and then offered words of explanation,
I recently had a student who designed a new small group system for her church and called them War Ship Small Groups. And she was uniformly eaten by a couple of students for
When it comes to preaching about "sin" of any sort, I've always been of the opinion we should confront sin in the same manner Jesus did ... he only ever confronted the hypocritical
Few churches know how to offer adequate hospitality to a non-Christian visitor. Being nice, loving, warm, and friendly isn't the same thing as being hospitable. For instance, does your church bulletin use any