For too many Christians, talk of the resurrection is restricted to a few songs and a family meal once a year on Easter Sunday. And, for many, even those few songs feel just a tad melodramatic.
Not all Christians have the same amount of time or inclination to read widely. So I’m trying to save pastors, elders and other interested Christians time by selecting a bunch of the best articles round the web each week. I’m doing it with a small bias towards stuff by
Any church leadership team can get a head start on The Vine Project journey by participating in a one-day workshop together using this workbook and the four video sessions containing a total of around four and a half hours of valuable content and guidance.
Well-known Bible teacher and pastor David Jackman unpacks the book of 2 Corinthians.
We are far too often late to the conversation about sexuality with our teenagers, and reactionary once we speak up.
If as Christians all we have to share online is how great or memorable parenthood or our children are, it’s not helpful for us or others.
Some helpful suggestions on making notes while reading so that you can remember what you've read and refer to it easily in the future.
Over the past couple of years, I’ve been leading a small-group-with-a-difference at my local church. In fact we don’t call ourselves a ‘group’ at all, but a ‘team’—the ‘Newcomers Team’. Our disciple-making focus as a group is to chase up the newcomers who roll regularly through the door on Sunday
It can be hard to know what to say at a funeral. “Sorry for your loss” or “My condolences” are well-meaning options, but are also ultimately vaporous. As Hannah Ploegstra argues, our inability to offer more reveals that we haven’t really understood the gospel in the first place.