“God calls us to difficult things. He calls us not only to be part of a church but even to love the people of the church. We may find it easy enough to love a building or an institution or a ...

It’s easy to identify pride, cowardice, anger, and selfish motives in others, like Asa. But God’s messengers need to be wary ...

The author makes some good arguments against doing a worship team badly. Nothing there argues against doing it well. To put it another way, the problems with worship teams identified there are not ...

“Most church training events and conferences don’t include the average church. The average church is 65-75 people and has one pastor. Most training events are geared for churches of 200-500 that have ...

“Greear’s observation about treating church like a ‘religious show’ hits at the heart of the issue…. When we consistently arrive late to our worship services, what message are we sending about the ...

“The most dangerous ingredient in Rousseau’s ideas was an unbounded confidence in human ability. He scoffed at formal religion, assuming that through unaided reason, humans could discover all truth.

“Amid secularization, a paradoxical spiritual uptick is emerging: 66% of U.S. adults now report a personal commitment to Jesus that remains important today—a 12-point surge from the pandemic low of 54 ...

“…there are a lot of ironic aspects of leadership. However, in my opinion, the most essential principle is that the ultimate job of a leader is to work themselves out of a job.” - Phil Cooke ...

However, there is one particular book by a Puritan that I would place at the top of the pile of books on this topic and that ...

“We used to leave forecasts of the AI apocalypse to shadowy characters lurking in the darker corners of 4chan and Reddit, but not anymore. In the interview, Thiel waxes eloquent on his transhumanist ...

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