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Church Life

• Are Churches Actually Welcoming to People with Disabilities?
• Pastoral Transition Survival Guide: How to Navigate a Pastoral Search and Transition
• On Calling, Crossing Cultures, and Church Planting
• How One Church Loved Its Neighbors Through Groceries and Good Will
• How a Multicultural Church Plant Emerged in the Bronx

Faith Practices

• How to Host a Community Meal (and Why This Biblical Practice Matters)
• Fasting and Prayer Guide
• What Did Jesus Eat?
• Praying Throughout the Day with the Divine Hours | Intro to Spiritual Practices
• How Writing Can Strengthen Your Prayer and Faith Life | Intro to Spiritual Practices

Prayer

• Justice and Reconciliation Prayer Service Order of Worship
• Fasting and Prayer Guide
• Racism and Rediscovering Corporate Prayer of Confession
• How to Build a Virtual Prayer Walk
• Five Ways to Pray During a Crisis

Seasonal Worship

• Experiential Pentecost Worship Service
• Trinity Sunday Prayer and Liturgy Ideas
• Pentecost Sunday Prayer and Liturgy Ideas
• Good Friday Worship Practices
• Three Ways to Encourage Your Church to Be Missional This Easter

Advent

• Why I Love Nativities: They Are Reminders of the Incarnation
• Celebrate Christmas at Home with One of These Global Traditions
• I Asked Santa for a Bicycle, but God Gave a Better Gift
• Making the Most of Holiday Breaks with Former Students
• 8 Ways for Churches to Welcome Newcomers in Advent

Lent

Featured Resource: Daily Lent Devotions

• Passover: The Taste of Redemption
• What Did Jesus Eat?
• Going Vegetarian with the Whole Family for Lent
• Good Friday Worship Practices
• Easter Activities for Sharing the Resurrection Story with Kids

Leadership

• Pastoral Transition Survival Guide: How to Navigate a Pastoral Search and Transition
• Bivocational Ministry Is On the Rise, and This Pastor Is Embracing It
• Experimenting on the Margins: My Journey in Adaptive Leadership
• 7 Important Books for Church Leaders in a Time of Pandemic and Racial Reckoning
• Ed Stetzer: People Are Being Discipled by Their Cable News Choices

Worship

Popular in this section: The Theology and Place of Music in Worship

• Justice and Reconciliation Prayer Service Order of Worship
• Litany for the One-Year Anniversary of Covid-19 Lockdowns
• Belhar Confession Hymns and Songs
• Belhar Confession Litany
• Belhar Confession Call to Worship Ideas

Theology

• What Mephibosheth Reveals about People with Disabilities in the Kingdom of God
• What Church Is Like for Me as a Person with Schizophrenia
• How Jesus Heals and Why It’s Different than a Cure
• Dementia and Identity: Who Are You If You Can’t Remember?
• What Does Hip Hop Have to do with Lament?

Mission

• How to Connect with Your Neighbors of Different Faiths
• Simple Outreach Ministry Ideas and Tips for Getting Started
• 12 Children’s Ministry Outreach Ideas for Churches and Families
• Four Things Your Missionaries Wish You Knew
• Following a Pillar of Cloud: Exodus Sunday School Lesson

Relationships

• Why Is There a Generation Missing from Church?
• Three Lessons the “Snyder Cut” Can Teach Us about Digital Ministry
• One Family’s Journey into Refugee Foster Care
• A Piece of the Pie
• Double the Care

Spirituality

• How the Spirit Is Moving in the Pandemic Reminds Me of Pentecost
• Fasting and Prayer Guide
• Shifting Points of View
• A Letter to My Fellow Asian Sisters and Brothers
• The Emotional Moment I Got the COVID-19 Vaccine