By: Raul Rivera June 16, 2016 Originally posted at: https://www.startchurch.com/blog/view/name/what-the-orlando-shooting-means-to-your-church After this past weekend’s tragic shooting in Orlando, Florida, many people are once again asking themselves, “What is this world coming to?” Over the last few days, the Church, as a whole, has done a wonderful job of actually being the Church by loving, showing grace, […]
By: Frank G. Tunstall “It was tough going when I joined the South Carolina Conference in 1916,” Tom Evans told me when I was editor of the Advocate and visited him and Molly in their retirement home in Florence, S.C. in 1979. “There was so much persecution. Our ministers conducted revivals under street lights after […]
Released by Focus on the Family, June 6, 2016 http://www.focusonthefamily.com/marriage/divorce-and-infidelity/affairs-and-adultery/dancing-on-the-edge By: A pastor who’s been there. You think it won’t happen to you, can’t happen to you. You think, There’s no way. Not me! Think again. Flirting with danger. I thought it was innocent at the time. She was a church staff member, so we […]
By Phil Larson “When the enemy comes in like a flood, the Spirit of the Lord shall lift up a standard against him” (Isaiah 59:19). Prevalent in the US is an aversion to commitment and marriage. A good 50% and more of our children are born with no marriage intact. Consider that many who are living […]
When Hot Church came to town, it did something to me on the inside. By: Keith Mannes Let’s call it HotChurch. HotChurch shot like a rocket into my world of pick-up trucks on dirt roads. It brought energetic and high tech worship to our staid county. If it was a race, we were losing and […]
Church leaders need to spark the creativity of innovative believers by Saying “yes” to their passion. By: Karl Vaters Churches get stuck sometimes. If you’re a pastor, you’ve known seasons when it’s hard to get church members to do great things for Jesus. Good things. Okay — anything. During our church’s years of being stuck, I […]
By Elvio Canavesio as told to Frank Tunstall Adapted from the Simultaneous Principle, a History of World Missions Ministries My grandparents went from the Swiss Alps in northern Italy to Argentina in the late 1800s, expecting to find gold in the streets. All they found was dust. They settled in the western pampas [plains] of […]
By Rick Warren Every church loses people. It’s a natural part of living in our current culture. Two to three percent will likely move away – more if you’re in an urban area. One or two percent will die. And some will just fade away and stop attending without connecting to another local body. Obviously […]
By: Veronica Neffinger | Editor, ChristianHeadlines.com A group of Christian fighters in the Middle East who are battling ISIS say that, though the Bible commands Christians not to kill, they must defend their home and families. The Christian Post reports that the Babylon Brigade, as the Christian fighters are known, has been fighting ISIS throughout the past year. […]
How to follow Jesus while dodging bullets. An interview with John Crosby As a Christian leader, people’s disapproval can make you defensive, angry—and if you go about it the right way, spiritually mature. We [the editors of Leadership Journal] asked John Crosby, pastor of Christ Presbyterian Church in Edina, Minnesota, what he’s learned about being […]