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Church Life

• Case Study: How Christ’s Community Church Decided on a Reopening Plan
• How to Create Welcoming Spaces for People Who Are Blind or Have Low Vision
• Reopening Guidance for Churches in Light of COVID-19
• A New Approach to Outreach
• Worship Resources for Celebrating Women in Ministry Sunday

Faith Practices

• A Call to Justice and Mercy
• How Jabez Helped Me Understand My Disability
• 6 Spiritual Practices that Point You to Jesus
• Scott Cormode on Biblical Lament | Faithward Podcast
• Lectio Divina: An Ancient Contemplative Spiritual Practice

Prayers

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

• Making the Most of Holiday Breaks with Former Students
• 8 Ways for Churches to Welcome Newcomers in Advent
• St. Nicholas Day
• Advent Candle Lighting Readings
• Congregational Ideas For Advent, Christmas, And Epiphany

Lent

Featured Resource: Daily Lent Devotions

• Good Friday Worship Practices
• Easter Activities for Sharing the Resurrection Story with Kids
• Three Ways to Encourage Your Church to Be Missional This Easter
• What Can the Seder Supper Teach Us about the Lord’s Supper?
• Easter Worship Ideas

Leadership

• What Does It Mean to Be a Denomination Today?
• How a Pastoral Sabbatical Helped Our Church Embrace the Priesthood of All Believers
• What God Has Strengthened Me To Do
• God Can Use the Enneagram to Make You Holy
• Why the Enneagram Isn’t Just Another Personality Quiz

Worship

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

• Belhar Confession Litany
• Belhar Confession Call to Worship Ideas
• Belhar Confession Affirmation Liturgies
• Creeds and Professions of Faith Inspired by the Belhar Confession
• Belhar Confession Prayers of Commitment

Theology

• What Does Hip Hop Have to do with Lament?
• Don’t Avoid Suffering. There’s Glory in It.
• When Preachers Talk, It’s God Who Speaks
• It’s Simple: God Just Wants Us to Know Him
• Witnessing the Gospel Is Our Call as Christians

Mission

• How the Tamil Language Brought Me Home in the Middle of Iowa
• Our Small Group Is Trying to Restore the World’s “Workability”
• Through New Audio Bible App, God Speaks in the Native Languages of India
• Sharing Your Church Building as a Ministry in a Post-Coronavirus World
• Hardships Can’t Stop God’s Work on This Farm in Mozambique

Relationships

• How the Tamil Language Brought Me Home in the Middle of Iowa
• Our Small Group Is Trying to Restore the World’s “Workability”
• A Call to Justice and Mercy
• How a Pastoral Sabbatical Helped Our Church Embrace the Priesthood of All Believers
• A Great Multitude from Many Nations

Spirituality

• Discipleship: A Command and a Culture
• Discipleship through Disability
• What A Broken Shovel Taught Me About Discipleship
• Lectio Divina: An Ancient Contemplative Spiritual Practice
• A Child in the Kingdom Family