Belhar Confession Worship Resources

Confession, as a formal statement that declares and gives evidence of God, of believers, and of the church, becomes an essential part of our public worship. These Belhar Confession worship resources can be used to help you integrate the themes of the Belhar Confession in your worship services.

All Advent Belhar Confession Building God's Church Together Christianity Church Life Coronavirus Creation Care Devotions Disability and Mental Health Discernment Elders Equity-Based Hospitality Series Evangelism Faith Formation Faith Practices Food for Faith Generation Spark Jesse Tree Jesse Tree Devotions Justice and Reconciliation Devotions Lament Leadership Lent Lent Worship Resources Mission Mission Trip Planning Music Prayer Purpose/Calling Stories Questions about God and Faith Refugee stories Relationships Resource Collections Seasonal Worship Sexual Abuse Spirituality Stewardship Theology Uncategorized We Are Speaking Worship Women in Ministry Women of the Bible Study Series Worship

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7 Ways Churches Can Increase Their Accessibility This Advent

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Heirs of the Promise: Our Church’s History Enlivens Its Future

All Because of God: Our Journey of Church Growth

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How Global Experiences and Mission Led Me to My Call

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How A Collaborative Art Project Is Changing One Community

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Congregational Transformation Is Underway at This Northern Michigan Church. Here’s How.

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How Our Church Is Connecting with Our Neighbors Who Are Marginalized

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Three Life Lessons from the Harvest

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How a Deaf Congregation and a Hearing Congregation Come Together as One Church

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Best Practices in Disaster Response Ministry

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Familia and Frijoles Negros Cubanos (Cuban Black Beans)

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Political Difference and the Ministry of Reconciliation: Words of Hope for this Election Cycle

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What an Old Testament Prophet Teaches Us About God’s Vision for Diversity and Inclusion

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How Creativity and Music Can Be Like the Widow’s Great Offering

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Noni’s Puerto Rican Rice

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A Tale of Two Church Plants: Friendship and Shared Mission in Europe

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Christ Calls Us Out of “the Way It’s Supposed to Be” and Into New Life

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We Certainly Had Our Ups and Downs: A Reflection on 27 Years in Ministry

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Why I Begin Every Week by Writing Notes to People

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How a Small, Aging Congregation Is Making the Most of a Meager Budget

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Advocating for Accessibility in the Church Means Caring for Caregivers, Too

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How One Church Came to See STEM as a Ministry

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Q&A: How and Why Our Church Is Committed to Being an Ally for Racial Justice

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How Parents and Caregivers Can Help Kids Discern Their Giftings

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One Pastor and His New Church Hit It Off: The Story and the Tips

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God Can Use Anyone: My Journey from Farm Boy to Full-Time Pastor

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Four Takeaways from Leading in a Hard Season

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The Church Is Best As A Full Body With Every Life Stage Included

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How Our Family Is Holding The Moments That Shape Us With Intentionality

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Six Churches Share Stories and Advice for Discerning the Will of God

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How We Discern and Dismantle Racism Through Prayer

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An Adventure Tale: One Church’s Journey of Following Jesus in Mission

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How the Good Samaritan’s Example Can Help Us Dismantle Racism

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Our Church Started Settling then Caught a Vision for Hope

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Parting to Pursue God: The Importance of Discernment In Times of Division

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Knowing God’s Will in an Us/Them World

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How a Unique Worship Arts Camp Is Impacting the Church Today

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How Discernment Led to Service as a Deacon: A Calling in Retirement

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Four Valuable Lessons from the Global Church Today

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How To Be An Egalitarian Church: Four Steps in the Right Direction

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Holy Creatures Living with Other Holy Creatures in a World That Is Holy

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A Tale of Two Palm Sundays: My Journey Into Ministry

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The Global Church and Mission: How We Can Connect Better

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How Hearts and Attitudes Changed During Disagreement

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What Does the Bible Say About Racism?

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Questions to Build Christian Community

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Discerning How To Be the Family of God

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These Four Things Are Imperative for the North American Church Today

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What I Discerned About My Calling During My Sabbatical

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How You Can Give Hope Any Time of the Year

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Corndogs and Christ’s Love: A Carnival for the Community

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Address Racism One Step at a Time

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Growing A Healing Space Around Racial Trauma | An Excerpt from Trauma and Race: A Path to Wellbeing

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Three Lessons of Hospitality from the Magi

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Sleep Tight Day with Pizza Dough Recipe

Christmas Traditions Around the World

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Christmas Eve in Nicaragua with Gallina Con Relleno

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Innovation and the Past, Present, and Future Church

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Innovation Moves the Church Forward

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Inspiring Ideas for Christmas Gifts that Give Back: 2023 Gift Guide

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Justice and Culture Are Relevant to the Church Today

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My Door Is Always Open: The Importance of Relationships in Ministry

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Why Church Leaders Need to Lead from Imagination, Not Memory

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Why I Encourage Pastors and Church Leaders To Be Builders

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How My Experience of Not Quite Belonging Changes How I Act at Church Now

How God Has Provided For Us Through Bivocational Ministry

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How My Unexpected Journey Through Seminary Led Me To Co-vocational Ministry

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Revitalization On Our Farm Is About Embracing Beautiful Complexity

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Encountering Grace at the Border and Finding a Home

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6 Myths About Church Health and Why They Aren’t True

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Three Things to Consider When You Want to Start Something New

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Repent, Repair, and Reorient to Restore Church and Neighborhood Relationship

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How a Church Can Love Its Neighborhood and Partner With Its Community

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Myths That Get in the Way of Resting in God

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Benefits of Contemplative Practices for Churches and Leaders

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Why We Pause for Sabbath Rest Before Doing Justice Work

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Why Centering Prayer? Biblical Grounding for Finding Rest in God

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How Prayer in the Footsteps of Jesus Changed My Life

My Adult Gap Year: How Recovery from Cochlear Implant Surgery Changed My Plans, and What I’m Learning along the Way

My Call to Ministry Terrified Me at First, But Now I’m Embracing It

My Soul Finds Rest through Art: How an Unconventional Sabbath Practice Helps Me Connect with God

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Interrupted Rest: Keeping the Sabbath in Real Life

Pulling Back the Curtain on Clergy Well-Being

Balancing Work and Rest Sustains My Call as a Pastor

How Scripture Guides My Calling as an Army Airborne Chaplain

Seeking Justice Is Central to God’s Calling for Leaders

How the Church Can Do a Better Job Preparing People for Difficulty

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Diversity and Belonging: A Revelation 7:9 Vision for Today and the Future

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How You Can Love Your Neighbor as Yourself in Today’s World

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Getting to Know Autistic Jesus

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Two Churches, One Pastor: An Old Model for the Present and Future Church

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Four Lessons That Help Create an Accessible Future Now

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How I’ve Experienced the Beauty of Being Reformed and Always Reforming

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Three Ways Churches Can Be Hospitable in a Time of Deconstruction

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How I’ve Come to See the Church as a Warm Nest of Community and Belonging

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God’s Irrevocable Call to Me as a Woman in Ministry

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What Does the Bible Say About Evangelism?

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Why I Continue to Trust and Read the Bible

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Dust and Ashes: A Confession of Faith for Job and Us

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How Spiritual Disciplines Can Free the Body from Wounds of Trauma

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If the Bible Is So Valuable, Why Do We Take It for Granted?

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Bible Translation Isn’t Easy, But the Holistic Process is Key

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Lost and Found: How to Declutter Your Spiritual Life and Find What’s Missing

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Three Ways to Honor Martin Luther King Jr. and Continue the Non-Violent Fight for Justice

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How You Can Better Understand and End Sexual Harassment and Abuse

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Faithward’s Most Loved Articles and Resources of 2022

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Best Bible Reading Plans for Beginners and Lifelong Readers Alike

What Does It Mean to Be Spiritually Rooted in Christ in a Rootless Age?

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When Christmas Feels More Melancholy than Merry, These Carols Comfort Me

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How the Longing of Advent Points Us Toward Creation Care

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How to Tune Into the Work of the Holy Spirit

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What Do Teens Really Need (and Want) from Youth Ministry Today?

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Christian Christmas Traditions and Activities for Families

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Where Your Treasure Is, There Your Heart Will Be Also. Where’s Yours?

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How to Make Jesse Tree Ornaments

How to Make a Jesse Tree

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Building a Friendship: The Example of a Good Neighbour

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Ableism, Theology, and Me: Coming to See My Disability in a New Light

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The Future of the Church in Europe and What the North American Church Can Learn from It

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Ableism and Pity From the Pulpit Reveals Much Work To Be Done

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The Health of the Future Church Depends on Children’s Ministry Today

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How My Church Became Accessible and Welcoming—and Yours Can, Too

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How Jesus Calls Us To Be Humble in Our Advocacy Efforts

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Why It’s Imperative That We Continue the Legacy of Faith

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How Prioritizing the Needs of Your Community Increases Your Welcome

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Why We Should Embrace the Difficult Conversations with Hope for a Brighter Financial Future

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It’s Time To Act: Practice Creation Care and Good Neighbor-hood Everyday

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No One Is Called to Everything: Respecting Different Participation Levels

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Understanding Power Dynamics in Equity-Based Hospitality

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3 Unexpected Principles for Meaningful Get-Togethers

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Servant Leadership is Context-Based Leadership

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Why Building Trust in God and Each Other Is Crucial for Hospitality

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Sabbath Rest: How to Keep the Sabbath Holy

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Why Mutual Respect Calls for Authenticity, Vulnerability, and Humility

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Why Intentional Diversity Matters and How to Pursue It in Your Church

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How Did People Practice Hospitality in the Bible, and What Does Hospitality Look Like Today?

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Faith-Based Summer Activities for Families

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How to be a Good Guest on Short-term Mission Trips

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Low-Cost and No-Cost Ways to Show Hospitality in the Church

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What Is Spiritual Direction, and How Can It Help You in Your Faith?

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“For Yours Is the Kingdom, and the Power, and the Glory” Justice and Reconciliation Devotion

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“But Rescue Us from the Evil One” (Matthew 6:13b) Justice and Reconciliation Devotion

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“Do Not Bring Us to the Time of Trial” (Matthew 6:13a) Justice and Reconciliation Devotion

Gluten-Free Communion Guidelines

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Prayer for Transformation

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30-Day Summer Bible Reading Plan for Kids and Families

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“As We Also Have Forgiven Our Debtors” (Matthew 6:12b) Justice and Reconciliation Devotion

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Why Pentecost Calls Upon Us to Talk About Creation Care

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“Forgive Us Our Debts” (Matthew 6:12a) Justice and Reconciliation Devotion

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“Give Us This Day Our Daily Bread” (Matthew 6:11) Justice and Reconciliation Devotion

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Prayers for Mass Shootings and Violence

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“Your Will Be Done, On Earth As It Is In Heaven” (Matthew 6:10b) Justice and Reconciliation Devotion

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“Your Kingdom Come” (Matthew 6:10a) Justice and Reconciliation Devotion

World Refugee Sunday Worship Toolkit

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“Hallowed Be Your Name” (Matthew 6:9b) Justice and Reconciliation Devotion

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“Our Father in Heaven” (Matthew 6:9a) Justice and Reconciliation Devotion

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Jill Sweet on the Power of Spiritual Direction and Spiritual Self-Care

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7 Common Conversations That Mean Your Church Is Ready for Renewal

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Why Care for God’s Creation Matters: A Biblical Perspective

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The Triumph of Hope After a Walk Through the Valley of Death

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How to Handle Pastoral Burnout in a COVID-Plus World

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Why Are So Many Pastors Burnt Out, And What Can We Do?

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How Facing Death with Christian Hope Can Help Us Find New Life in Christ

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What Does the Bible Say about Life after Death and the Resurrection of the Body?

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God Has Called Me to Listen, Trust, and Obey, Even When the Picture Is Unclear

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What Can Lent Teach Us About Creation Care?

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How I Came To Love Dahlias and God’s Vision for Me

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How God Taught Me that My Calling Wasn’t Over When My Job Ended

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How God Called Me to Care for Others on the Same Road as Me

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Prayers for God’s Mercy in Ukraine

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How to Navigate and Resolve Family Conflict in a Healthy Way: A Biblical Perspective

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My Call to Bi-Vocational Work: Multiple Jobs to Support the Ministry

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How God Called My Reluctant Self to Mission Work

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A Call to Ministry and to Many Nations

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The Story of Fortune Game/Magee | An Excerpt from Fortune by Lisa Sharon Harper

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Jesus Goes to Church Online

Called to Christ Through A Child

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Holy and Mundane Moments: A Call to God’s People

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How to Choose a Children’s Bible that Will Form Faith for Life

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“For the Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory Are Yours, Now and Forever” | The Lord’s Prayer Petition 6

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Guarding Our Children from Church Hurt: Why Our Actions Matter

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3 Essentials for Faith Formation the Church Can Give Every Parent and Caregiver

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Does Your Church Need a Sabbatical?

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Lead Us Not into Temptation, but Deliver Us from Evil | The Lord’s Prayer Petition 5

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Hospitality and Hot Chocolate in Peru

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Christmas Chile

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Christmas in Niger with Riz au Gras (Jollof Rice)

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How to Say Goodbye to a Relationship: Ending Relationships Well

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How Do You Know When It’s Time to End a Relationship?

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Cookies and Carols

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How to Heal Broken Relationships with Hope and Trust in God

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Forgive Us Our Sins, as We Forgive Those Who Sin Against Us | The Lord’s Prayer Petition 4

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Give Us This Day Our Daily Bread | The Lord’s Prayer Petition 3

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Fun and Meaningful Ways to Celebrate Advent for Kids

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Orphan Awareness Prayers

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Resilience Is My Reality as an Indigenous Woman

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“Your Kingdom Come, Your Will Be Done, on Earth as in Heaven” | The Lord’s Prayer Petition 2

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How to Develop an Effective Social Media Strategy for Your Church

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Amazing Asian, Latin American, and Black Theologians Who Write About Reformed Theology

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“Our Father in Heaven, Hallowed Be Your Name” | The Lord’s Prayer Petition 1

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What Is the Lord’s Prayer? | Breaking Down How Jesus Teaches Prayer

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How the Pandemic Has Revealed a Paradigm Shift in Our Approach to Giving

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How to Practice Biblical Equity-Based Hospitality

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Prayers from the Bible to Bolster the Body of Believers

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Three Tips for When You Don’t Know What to Pray

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Six Essentials Every Church Website Should Have

How Mentoring Can Change Today’s Narrative of Young People and the Church

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Will the Need for Justice and Healing Ever End?

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How Immigration Court Challenged What I Thought I Knew about Justice

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Not Just a Moment for Mission, but Mission in Every Moment

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Why I Pursue Justice for the Marginalized in My Own Communities

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What Is the Mission of the Church Today?

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Why Is There a Generation Missing from Church?

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How to Connect with Your Neighbors of Different Faiths

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What Mephibosheth Reveals about People with Disabilities in the Kingdom of God

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How to Offer Everyone Access to God’s Community

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How to Create a Sense of Belonging and Invite Everyone to Contribute Their Spiritual Gifts

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What Church Is Like for Me as a Person with Schizophrenia

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How to Host a Community Meal (and Why This Biblical Practice Matters)

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How to Break the Stigma around Mental Health in the Church

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People with Disabilities Have a Voice. Are You Listening for Us?

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Simple Outreach Ministry Ideas and Tips for Getting Started

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The Hidden Impact of Abled Privilege in the Church

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“How Do We Help People with Disabilities?”

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How Shaming Holds People with Disabilities Back in the Church

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12 Children’s Ministry Outreach Ideas for Churches and Families

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How It Hurts When Churches Don’t Make Space for People with Autism

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Four Things Your Missionaries Wish You Knew

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Following a Pillar of Cloud: Exodus Sunday School Lesson

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Changing Attitudes toward People with Disabilities in the Church

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Are Churches Actually Welcoming to People with Disabilities?

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How Jesus Heals and Why It’s Different than a Cure

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Dementia and Identity: Who Are You If You Can’t Remember?

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Top Church Online Giving Platforms in 2021

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Tips for Sharing Your Faith Story

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Pastoral Transition Survival Guide: How to Navigate a Pastoral Search and Transition

Mrs. Korver’s Famous Dutch Stroopwafel Recipe

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Bivocational Ministry Is On the Rise, and This Pastor Is Embracing It

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Justice and Reconciliation Prayer Service Order of Worship

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Fasting and Prayer Guide

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6 International Church Planters Talk Evangelism

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Shifting Points of View

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Three Lessons the “Snyder Cut” Can Teach Us about Digital Ministry

The Boersma family. Caitlin and Brent Boersma became refugee foster care parents to two boys from Eritrea when their daughter was just one year old.

One Family’s Journey into Refugee Foster Care

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A Letter to My Fellow Asian Sisters and Brothers

Reconciliation in a Divided World

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A Piece of the Pie

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How to Plant Seeds of Faith by Gardening with Your Kids

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Why Plant Churches?

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How Asperger Syndrome Makes Me Uniquely Gifted as a Missionary

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Experimenting on the Margins: My Journey in Adaptive Leadership

Passover: The Taste of Redemption

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Saying “Yes” to Water Wells

What Did Jesus Eat?

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Rosemary Cheddar Irish Soda Bread

A woman pastor shares a children's message in a small, diverse church.

On Calling, Crossing Cultures, and Church Planting

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Five Inspiring Stories of People with an Abundance Mindset

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Mushroom Risotto Recipe

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How to Teach Your Kids about Giving

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5 Strategies for Rethinking Your Church Budget

Here’s How Three Groups Stayed on Mission During COVID

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How One Church Loved Its Neighbors Through Groceries and Good Will

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Why One Church Is Celebrating an Outbreak

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Double the Care

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Six Chaplains Share the Highs and Lows of Their COVID-19 Experiences

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Going Vegetarian with the Whole Family for Lent

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Praying Throughout the Day with the Divine Hours | Intro to Spiritual Practices

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What Does the Bible Say about Sharing the Gospel?

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I Want to Immerse People in Hospitality and God’s Love

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How Writing Can Strengthen Your Prayer and Faith Life | Intro to Spiritual Practices

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Prayer Walking | Intro to Spiritual Practices

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Climbing to New Heights: First a Gym, Now a Church

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How to Frame Your Faith Story

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Be Strong and Courageous Enough to Forgive

A young man looks out across the sky at the end of the day.

The Daily Examen: Prayer, Meditation, and Seeking God’s Direction | Intro to Spiritual Practices

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Lament in 2020

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Where Do We Go From Here?

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The Pathway to Reconciliation

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Reading the Bible Daily with the Lectionary | Intro to Spiritual Practices

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Silence in God’s Presence | Intro to Spiritual Practices

How a Multicultural Church Plant Emerged in the Bronx

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Restoring Hope and Dreams for a New Year

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Why I Love Nativities: They Are Reminders of the Incarnation

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Celebrate Christmas at Home with One of These Global Traditions

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I Asked Santa for a Bicycle, but God Gave a Better Gift

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Six Ways to Think About Lament and How You Might Practice It

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8 Ways to Connect with Your Community this Christmas Season

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Tea Time: Building Cross-Cultural, Interfaith Relationships over Chai

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From Corn, Beans, and Poverty to Fruit, Health, and Big Dreams

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Four Ways That Online Discipleship Actually Works

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What It Means to Live in the Middle and Be a Peacebuilder

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A Puff of Dust

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Pivoting: Discipleship in an Age of COVID-19

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7 Important Books for Church Leaders in a Time of Racial Reckoning

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When Time Zones Take a Backseat to Discipleship

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Snickerdoodles and Being Neighborly

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Confronting Racism and Its Ugly Past to Change the Future

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How a Gift of $242 Sparked Generosity in this Congregation

A young Asian woman holds a glowing heart-shaped string of lights with glimmers that extend across the dark background.

What Discipleship During COVID-19 Looks Like for Me

A man in business attire looks at his tablet screen of graphs and charts.

Why Finances Matter as We Follow Jesus

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What Does It Look Like to Be a Disciple Maker?

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Let God Transform You

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Advice for When You’re Struggling with Faith

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Richard Mouw on Disagreeing with Convicted Civility

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How One Group is Doing Digital Discipleship, and Why It’s Working

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I’m Casting My First Vote as a U.S. Citizen. Here’s My Prayer.

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The Power of Loving Your Neighbors through Food

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Leading Like Jesus

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Understanding Digital Culture Can Help the Church Disciple Young Millennials and Gen Z

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Learning to Live and Love like Jesus

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Is Racism a Discipleship Issue? Joe Graham, a White Millennial Pastor, Thinks So.

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1 Corinthians 13 Bible Study

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Ed Stetzer: People Are Being Discipled by Their Cable News Choices

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How Adaptive Leadership Can Help Churches Embrace Mission in Uncharted Territory

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Tod Bolsinger on Power, Privilege, and Adaptive Leadership in 2020

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Calling, Leadership, the Black Church, and Soul Care: A Conversation with Earl James and Peter Watts

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Racism and Rediscovering Corporate Prayer of Confession

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How to Build a Virtual Prayer Walk

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Belhar Confession Hymns and Songs

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How the Tamil Language Brought Me Home in the Middle of Iowa

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What Does It Mean to Be a Denomination Today?

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Our Small Group Is Trying to Restore the World’s “Workability”

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A Call to Justice and Mercy

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Through New Audio Bible App, God Speaks in the Native Languages of India

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Belhar Confession Litany

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Five Ways to Pray During a Crisis

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During a Crisis, Pray for Eyes to See

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Discipleship: A Command and a Culture

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Belhar Confession Call to Worship Ideas

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Belhar Confession Affirmation Liturgies

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Creeds and Professions of Faith Inspired by the Belhar Confession

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Belhar Confession Prayers of Commitment

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How a Pastoral Sabbatical Helped Our Church Embrace the Priesthood of All Believers

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How Jabez Helped Me Understand My Disability

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Discipleship through Disability

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Hardships Can’t Stop God’s Work on This Farm in Mozambique

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What A Broken Shovel Taught Me About Discipleship

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Racism, Police Killings, and the Way Forward: A Pastoral Letter from a Black Man of Faith

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Looking Inward to Reach Outward

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We’re Experiencing Trauma. Here’s How to Cope

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Prayers for Racial Harmony

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6 Spiritual Practices that Point You to Jesus

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Experiential Pentecost Worship Service

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How Your Church Can Engage and Support Your Community

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Pentecost on the Prairie

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Trinity Sunday Prayer and Liturgy Ideas

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Prayers for Times of National Tragedy

Fire is a common symbol of Pentecost

Pentecost Sunday Prayer and Liturgy Ideas

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How to Create Welcoming Spaces for People Who Are Blind or Have Low Vision

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From Mentoring to Weekend Meals

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What Does Hip Hop Have to do with Lament?

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Scott Cormode on Biblical Lament | Faithward Podcast

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Lectio Divina: An Ancient Contemplative Spiritual Practice

Copies of a red-covered book sit in a row on a wooden shelf. The cover reads, The Book of Common Prayer.

Praying for the World Is a Mission Practice

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What Is Faith?

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Who Is God?

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A New Approach to Outreach

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Worship Resources for Celebrating Women in Ministry Sunday

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How Much Is Enough?

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A Great Multitude from Many Nations

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Walking Backward into the Future

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Prayer Walking During a Pandemic

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How a Transcontinental Partnership Embodies the Family of God

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Ground Yourself in Faith Using Positive Psychology as a Tool

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You Don’t Have to Be Big to Plant

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Prayers for Peace and Reconciliation

Silhouette of a man with elbows on his knees and hands folded in prayer

Stressed? Get Grounded

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Why Are Church Plants Better at Reaching the Unreached?

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A Child in the Kingdom Family

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Good Friday Worship Practices

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Easter Activities for Sharing the Resurrection Story with Kids

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What Can the Seder Supper Teach Us about the Lord’s Supper?

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Easter Worship Ideas

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How Six Churches are Loving Their Neighbors

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6 Ways to Stay #OnMission When You Have to Cancel Your Mission Trip

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DIY Resurrection Eggs for Holy Week

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5 Ways to Talk to Your Church about Online Giving

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Making Lent Pretzels: What Pretzels Remind Us during Lent

Managing Your Fear and Anxiety So You Can Respond in Faith

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Prayer of Confession Collection

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The Super Basic, Low-Budget Guide to Livestreaming for Churches

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What God Has Strengthened Me To Do

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What Will Be Required of Me?

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How Churches Can Respond to Coronavirus

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Stations of the Cross Tenebrae Service for Holy Week

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How to Apply Micah 6:8 to Your Life

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How to Minister to the Whole Person

God Can Use the Enneagram to Make You Holy

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What You Need to Know about Meaningful Community Ministry

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Six Lent Prayer of Confession Ideas

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What I’ve Learned from the Waters

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Ash Wednesday Worship Service Ideas

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Why the Enneagram Isn’t Just Another Personality Quiz

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Conflict Is Part of Our Witness to the World

A series of five narrow stained-glass windows portrays Jesus and the disciples at the Last Supper.

What Is Maundy Thursday and How Is It Observed?

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What Campus Ministries Has Taught Me About Interfaith Dialogue

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Palm Sunday Prayer and Call to Worship Ideas

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“They Called Me Crazy”: Rito’s Story

Lunar New Year Festival

Two Guatemalans and four Americans stand in an orchard at the height of summer

How Service Trips Transformed Me

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Five Ways to Embrace Mission and Revitalize the Church

What We’re Missing on Mission Trips

Symbols in Worship

How can elders provide better pastoral care for their congregations?

How can elders minister to the pastor?

How can elders minister to people who are sick or dying?

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How Centering Prayer Helps You Find Rest in God

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Epiphany Celebration Ideas for Families and Churches

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Don’t Avoid Suffering. There’s Glory in It.

Boxing Day

Don’t Let the Doorway Effect Make You Forget Christmas

Orange sunlight hovers over the peaks of a backlit mountain range.

God’s Light Breaks Us Open

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Making the Most of Holiday Breaks with Former Students

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What Millennials Can Teach the Church About Generosity

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It’s Sacred to Hear the Stories of Refugees Like Jesus

8 Ways for Churches to Welcome Newcomers in Advent

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Learning about Hospitality and Justice from the Nativity Story

Family Ideas for Advent

St. Nicholas Day

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The Second Coming of Jesus Makes Me Uneasy

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What If My Heart Is Too Frazzled to Prepare Him Room?

Advent Candle Lighting Readings

Congregational Ideas For Advent, Christmas, And Epiphany

Christmas Pageant

A group of people around a table raise half-full glasses for a toast

Biblical Hospitality: Inviting Outsiders to be Family

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12 Ideas for Celebrating the 12 Days of Christmas

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How to Get Unstuck in Your Faith

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As You Did to the Least of These, You Did to Me

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Not Just in the Community, But for It

Thanksgiving Litany

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How to Avoid Pastor Burnout

Keeping a Capital Campaign Alive Long-Term

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How (and Why) I Learned to Love Puzzles

An ornate Bible sits open on a stand between two candlesticks in Hereford Cathedral

When Preachers Talk, It’s God Who Speaks

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I Learned to Listen to God at a School for the Deaf

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How to Revitalize Your Church by Embracing Innovation

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Why Are Churches Dying And What Can You Do about It?

Six Non-Traditional Ways of Following God’s Call to Ministry

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It’s Simple: God Just Wants Us to Know Him

A Light to My Path: Interpreting Scripture as Reformed Christians – A three-part video series

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When Sports Is What You Know, It’s What You Use

A woman of color and a white woman shake hands

How Did Jesus Deal with Conflict?

One Pastor’s Method of Mentoring? Ping Pong.

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Laity Sunday Worship Ideas

A yellow construction truck is parked next to a town-up sidewalk

I’m Giving Thanks for the People Who Built My Spiritual Foundation

A small crowd of people stand on the sidewalk outside of a historic-looking church building, holding signs that express support of immigrants

This Church Takes Learning to Another Level

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I Experienced the Amazing Power of Sharing Stories. Here’s What Happened.

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God’s Grace Gets You Through Hard Times

Small but Powerful Ways Churches Are Caring for the Earth

Yes, We Actually Trust Our Young People to Lead

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How Rosy Tamayo Found Her Calling

A dozen people stand behind raised garden beds sprouting small crops

This Ministry Is Exchanging “Mission to” for “Cooperation with”

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When Niccie Kliegl Listened to God, Crazy Things Started Happening

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How to Use the Offering to Grow Generosity in Your Church

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Witnessing the Gospel Is Our Call as Christians

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How To Make Pastoral Visits Without Being A Pastor

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How a Green Team Can Help Your Church Care for Creation

Trees along the side of the road cast long shadows across a grassy field

Have a Vision? Here’s How to Share It.

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Why the Heidelberg Catechism is Still Relevant, in Life and in Death

In Defense of the Children’s Message

Giving Metrics That Tell a Church’s Generosity Story

The wheel of a van is stuck in the mud.

When the Church Gets Stuck in the Mud

White man with beard sits alone on the grass in city park, watching other people.

Evangelism for Introverts

How Doubt Made My Faith Strong

Women walk a prayer labyrinth in the hot Arizona sun

Cuando El Liderazgo Comienza Siguiendo

God Used My Words to Encourage South Sudanese Christians

Accommodations of the Heart Matter More

Does God Ever Abandon Us?

Myths About Millennials and Giving

Obeying What You Hear from God Can Be Really Hard. But Also, Worth It.

My Childhood Quest for Turtles Showed Me How to Approach God

Canons of Dort Devotions

Six Church Planters Talk Shop

What Happens When Loving Others Conflicts with Our Convictions?

Real Mission Is All About Relationships

5 Ways to Up Your Church’s Discipleship Game

Girl with eyes closed and hands closed in prayer

Listening Prayer Helps You Hear God More Clearly. Here’s How.

It Looks Like Chaos, but There’s Holiness in Here

Teaching Children about Communion Workshop

Brush Up on Your Gospel Basics

How to Raise Money without Feeling Like a Salesman

What I Learned about Jesus by Teaching English to Refugees

10 Ways Your Church Can Include People with Disabilities

Is the Church the Only Hope for Returning Citizens?

black microphone

We Are Speaking Sunday Sample Worship Service

Does Your Church Smell Like Rain?

Mission Trip Advice for Lasting Spiritual Growth

Jesus Wants Us to Be More Like Children

This Afterschool Group Saved One Teenager’s Life

Supporting Survivors of Sexual Abuse and Violence in Your Church

Addressing Sexual Abuse and Violence in Worship Resources

Women laying their hands on a women and comforting her

Confess Your Sins, and Not Just to God

When a Church Feels Growing Pains

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Six Ways to Engage Older Adults in Worship

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Eight Spiritual Disciplines for Everyday Life

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Small Churches Are Worth Celebrating

Communion

Remembering the Last Supper

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I’m Sitting in the Lap of Darkness

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God’s the One Persevering, Not the Saints

Main points III and IV of the Canons of Dort tulips

Our Salvation Is Entirely God’s Work

Main Point 2 of the Canons of Dort tulips

Don’t Set Limits on Christ’s Atoning Work

Main Point II of the Canons of Dort tulips

It’s Not About Who’s Out and Who’s In

Group photo of volunteer leaders from JoyCamp 2018

JoyCamp Shares Jesus’s Love in Queens

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What Keeping Fish Taught Me about Free Grace

Faith, Little Miracles, And Why Stories Matter

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What My Grandpa Taught Me About Grace

Who Makes Us Part of the Church?

How We Found Family and Adventure

Faith Five Families: Nurturing the Spiritual Life of Children

Spiritual Practice of Simplicity

Psalm 23 Prayer Walk with Communion

Prayer for Crops and Industry

Lent Worship Practices Inspired by the Early Church

Church is Beautiful and Messy—But Really, It’s Beautiful

How Cancer Gave Me a New Mission

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Church Means Home, Even When It’s Hard

This fish symbol was part of the discipleship strategy in the early church, communicating that a person was a Christian

Does Your Church Have a Discipleship Strategy?

Riffing on Sunday Night Worship with Jazz Vespers

Day Camp Shares Hopes with Kids in Syracuse

Jesus Invites Us to Come

It Has Taken Me Years to See God as Good

Why I Love the Church Most on Ash Wednesday

Heeding God’s Call to Cuba

What My Church and I Learned About Loss and Change

A Mothers’ Prayer Meeting

Quiet …For Now

Violence of Silence

We’re a missional people, so shouldn’t our spiritual gifts be used for mission, too?

Spiritual Gifts Aren’t Just for Church Anymore

Sending people out is part of being church; is God sending you?

Is Your Church Sending People Out?

What Are We Really Thirsty For?

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Being Church to Those Impacted by Mass Incarceration

We worship in three kinds of churches

There Are Three Kinds of Churches: Which Is Yours?

Ministering Both on the Job and from the Pulpit

I Was in Prison and You Visited Me

How a Simple Act of Love Changed My Mother’s Life

Why We’re Studying a 500-year-old Doctrine

How a Health Clinic Will Help Share the Gospel

Church Planting Is Different in Hungary

The Power of Presence in a Community

How Counseling Helped My Faith

Worshiping in a Refugee Camp Stunned Me

A book of music

The Theology and Place of Music in Worship

How One Church Connects Its Members with Their Japanese Roots

This Church is Helping Prevent Domestic Violence, Not Just Reacting to It

A Circle of Friends

The Courage of Esther

Rahab the Faithful

Justice for Tamar

Dec 25 Jesus Birth - images of stable under star

December 25: Jesus Is Born

Dec 24 Traveling tp Bethlehem

December 24: Journey to Bethlehem

Dec 23 Josephs Honor - image of swirling stars

December 23: Joseph’s Honor

Dec 22 Marys unexpected giff - image of a women with arms raised

December 22: Mary’s Unexpected Gift

Dec 21 John the Baptist - image of Jordon River

December 21: John the Baptist

Dec 20 Zechariahs gift of silence - image of a mustard plant

December 20: Zechariah’s Gift of Silence

Dec 16 Born in Bethlehem - image of stone wall with flower groing through the cracks

December 19: Born in Bethlehem

Sharing Life in a Small Town

Dec 16 Daniel - image of a lion looking up with mouth closed

December 18: Into the Lions’ Den

Dec 17 Jonah and sackcoth - image of course fabric

December 17: Jonah and the…Sackcloth?

Dec 16 The Wolf and the Lamg - iamge of a lamb laying next to a wolf

December 16: The Wolf and Lamb

DEc 15 The Promise of LIght - images of sunrise over dark mountains

December 15: The Promise of Light

Dec 14 Esthers strong faith - images of ancient palace entrance

December 14: Esther’s Bold Faith

Dec 13 Triump over Baal - image of flames

December 13: God’s Triumph over Baal

Dec 12 More than a temple - image of sun beam thru clouds

December 12: More Than a Temple

Dec. 11 Shepherd to King - image of a crown

December 11: Shepherd to King

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December 10: David, An Unlikely King

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December 9: Ruth and Boaz

December 8: Rahab - image of orange rope

December 8: Rahab

December 7: The 10 Commandments - image of rocky mountains

December 7: The 10 Commandments

December 6: The Story of Joseph - image of colorful fabric

December 6: The Story of Joseph

December 4: Sacrificing Isaac - image of clouds

December 5: Jacob’s Dream

December 4: Sacrificing Isaac - image of a ram

December 4: Sacrificing Isaac

Dec 3 - Gods Promise to Abraham - view of starry sky

December 3: God’s Promise to Abraham

Dec 2 The Promised Land - scenic view of waterfalls

December 2: The Promised Land

december-1-noahs-ark - Waves on the sea

December 1: Noah’s Ark

11-30 The Fall - Bare branches of a thorn bush

November 30: The Fall

11-29 Adam and Eve - hands molding pottery

November 29: Adam and Eve

11-28 Watchtower - Old watch tower on the sea shore

November 28: Habakkuk and the Watch Tower

11-27 Tree of Jesse Tree stump with roots growing out of the top

November 27: The Jesse Tree

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Service of Lament Liturgy

Senior Pastor’s Unique Role in Building Culture of Generosity

A Prayer for Refugees

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Belhar Confession Music

August 13, 2020

Belhar Confession Hymns and Songs

Worship music inspired by the Belhar Confession

Grace Ruiter

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Belhar Confession Worship

July 3, 2020

Belhar Confession Call to Worship Ideas

Call to worship ideas based on the Belhar Confession

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Belhar Confession Worship

July 3, 2020

Belhar Confession Affirmation Liturgies

Affirm the Belhar Confession in worship

Multiple Contributors

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Belhar Confession Worship

July 3, 2020

Belhar Confession Prayers of Commitment

Commit in prayer to unity, reconciliation, and justice

Multiple Contributors

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Belhar Confession Worship

July 10, 2020

Belhar Confession Litany

A litany adapted from the Belhar Confession

David Alexander

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Belhar Confession Worship

July 3, 2020

Creeds and Professions of Faith Inspired by the Belhar Confession

Profess your faith in Christ's reconciling love

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