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Church Life

• Heirs of the Promise: Our Church’s History Enlivens Its Future
• All Because of God: Our Journey of Church Growth
• Congregational Transformation Is Underway at This Northern Michigan Church. Here’s How.
• How Our Church Is Connecting with Our Neighbors Who Are Marginalized
• How a Deaf Congregation and a Hearing Congregation Come Together as One Church

Faith Practices

• Congregational Transformation Is Underway at This Northern Michigan Church. Here’s How.
• Myths That Get in the Way of Resting in God
• Why We Pause for Sabbath Rest Before Doing Justice Work
• My Soul Finds Rest through Art: How an Unconventional Sabbath Practice Helps Me Connect with God
• Interrupted Rest: Keeping the Sabbath in Real Life

Prayer

• How We Discern and Dismantle Racism Through Prayer
• Benefits of Contemplative Practices for Churches and Leaders
• Why Centering Prayer? Biblical Grounding for Finding Rest in God
• How Prayer in the Footsteps of Jesus Changed My Life
• “For Yours Is the Kingdom, and the Power, and the Glory” Justice and Reconciliation Devotion

Seasonal Worship

• Three Lessons of Hospitality from the Magi
• Experiential Pentecost Worship Service
• Trinity Sunday Prayer and Liturgy Ideas
• Pentecost Sunday Prayer and Liturgy Ideas
• Good Friday Worship Practices

Advent

• 7 Ways Churches Can Increase Their Accessibility This Advent
• Christmas Traditions Around the World
• Inspiring Ideas for Christmas Gifts that Give Back: 2023 Gift Guide
• When Christmas Feels More Melancholy than Merry, These Carols Comfort Me
• How the Longing of Advent Points Us Toward Creation Care

Lent

Featured Resource: Daily Lent Devotions

• Dust and Ashes: A Confession of Faith for Job and Us
• What Can Lent Teach Us About Creation Care?
• Passover: The Taste of Redemption
• What Did Jesus Eat?
• Going Vegetarian with the Whole Family for Lent

Leadership

• What an Old Testament Prophet Teaches Us About God’s Vision for Diversity and Inclusion
• Four Takeaways from Leading in a Hard Season
• How a Unique Worship Arts Camp Is Impacting the Church Today
• Why Church Leaders Need to Lead from Imagination, Not Memory
• Why I Encourage Pastors and Church Leaders To Be Builders

Worship

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

• How Creativity and Music Can Be Like the Widow’s Great Offering
• How a Unique Worship Arts Camp Is Impacting the Church Today
• Three Lessons of Hospitality from the Magi
• Gluten-Free Communion Guidelines
• World Refugee Sunday Worship Toolkit

Theology

• Christ Calls Us Out of “the Way It’s Supposed to Be” and Into New Life
• What Does the Bible Say About Racism?
• Ableism, Theology, and Me: Coming to See My Disability in a New Light
• How Facing Death with Christian Hope Can Help Us Find New Life in Christ
• What Does the Bible Say about Life after Death and the Resurrection of the Body?

Mission

• How Global Experiences and Mission Led Me to My Call
• How A Collaborative Art Project Is Changing One Community
• Best Practices in Disaster Response Ministry
• A Tale of Two Church Plants: Friendship and Shared Mission in Europe
• How One Church Came to See STEM as a Ministry

Relationships

• Political Difference and the Ministry of Reconciliation: Words of Hope for this Election Cycle
• Why I Begin Every Week by Writing Notes to People
• Q&A: How and Why Our Church Is Committed to Being an Ally for Racial Justice
• One Pastor and His New Church Hit It Off: The Story and the Tips
• The Church Is Best As A Full Body With Every Life Stage Included

Spirituality

• Address Racism One Step at a Time
• My Adult Gap Year: How Recovery from Cochlear Implant Surgery Changed My Plans, and What I’m Learning along the Way
• Lost and Found: How to Declutter Your Spiritual Life and Find What’s Missing
• What Does It Mean to Be Spiritually Rooted in Christ in a Rootless Age?
• When Christmas Feels More Melancholy than Merry, These Carols Comfort Me