Are you looking for the perfect event to close out the year? The lock in is the most fearsome event for every youth pastor, but Caroline Hare offers awesome tips that will not only help you survive, but make your next lock in the best event ever!
All too often, we skip over all the “begats” in Scripture when we preach. They can be vitally important in telling the whole story, though. Here, we give a sermon series idea for Advent, based on all those begats.
Did you ever wonder what Emily Post would have to say to worship leaders? Well, wonder no more! Kory Pence gives us the 7 Social Rules of Engagement for Worship Leaders.
How can we avoid the entitlement trap and raise our children without it? Heather Butler offers insight into the way we can begin rearing children without a mentality that the world owes them something.
The truth is that grace, or gift, was not a concept unique to the Christian faith in the first century. In fact, even pagan religion afforded grace a role in the relationship between the gods and their followers. What makes the grace of the Christian gospel unique? In today’s Seven Minute Seminary video, Dr. John Barclay explains that it’s the nature of the recipients—us—that is so telling about the grace of God in Jesus Christ.
I have found that this is a good way to keep before the family and the child the meaning of baptism and to remind the parents of the promise they made to God during the baptism to do all they can to raise their child in the faith.
Maybe it sounds crazy, but it’s true! Bryan Collier explains how one of the most instructive church planting experiences he has had is to birth a child while he was birthing a new church start.
