Saturday Lagniappe: ‘7 Signs Your Church Will Never Change’ And More
7 Signs Your Church Will Never Change
How do you know when your church is simply so resistant to change that it isn’t going to budge? How do you know the problem is so deep that radical intervention is required?
How Do You Work Alongside Your Team?
Do you want to harness the greatest power in your organization? How can you benefit with the people you lead?
Start the Year Small: Wisdom for Setting New Goals
Matt Bradner describes a well-marked yet seldom-traveled pathway to setting wise goals, which he has discovered.
Jesus’ 6-Step Strategy for Resolving Conflict
Conflict is unavoidable in relationships. Conflict isn’t necessarily sinful or destructive, but it can be depending on what we do with it. Jesus outlines a clear, specific, and workable process in Matthew 18. And, we simply can’t improve on what Jesus says. I’ve summarized into a 6-step process the essence of what I believe Matthew 18 teaches us.
5 Tips to Reinforce Your Bible Study and Prayer Routine
No church leader wants to admit it, but for many of us it’s true: we still don’t have a sustainable habit for personal Bible study and prayer. Here are five ways forward—true for anyone, church leader or not.
10 Tips for Faithful Student Ministry in the New Year
Here are some somewhat random but important tips and priorities for you as a Student Pastor and your student ministry in the coming year.
Tips for Talking With Skeptics
What’s the best way to share the gospel with skeptics? To answer this question, Dan DeWitt offers six imperatives.
New Year’s Eve
The turning of the New Year is an event that belongs to all people and cultures, and for that reason it has not always been easy for Christians to calibrate our celebrations. Even today there is a spirituality about the end of the year and beginning of something new that seems to grip people in a particular way. It is not obvious what exactly it is that we celebrate on New Year’s Eve.
Benedict, the ‘other pope,’ dies at 95, leaving behind a unique and complex legacy
Benedict XVI, the first pope to resign in 600 years, paved the way into the new millennium, but struggled to reconcile his traditional Catholic views with a world that he considered to be ‘under the dictatorship of relativism.’
Also see these related articles: Highlights from the life of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI and Wealth of tribute comes for Benedict, who desired simplicity.