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What’s the Point of Church? | Megan Fate Marshman
During my freshman year of high school, I was quickly losing interest in church. Instead of digging into Bible study, I stopped reading my Bible for myself and responding to the deeper questions from my small group leader. Everything about my...
How Jesus Cares for You | Max Lucado
The aged apostle sighed as picked up his quill and stared at the piece of parchment in front of him. Slowly, his hand wrote out the words, “the elder.” It was his typical way of addressing himself at this time in his life. How much time had passed?...
What is Verse Mapping? Kristy Cambron
Mapping Bible verses isn’t new; it’s been a topic of conversation for years. You’ll find endless examples with a simple online search. And you guessed it—Bible journaling images and methods are popping up all over social media. But what is Verse...
Do I Belong Anywhere? | Candace Payne
I avoid crying in public as often as I can. I don’t know when or where I felt this importance emerge in me, but since its’ arrival, I settle into its’ demand for solitude every time. And, still. There I was. Sitting on a row of friends, authors,...
We Need a New Normal by Jennie Allen
The first time I taught the Get Out of Your Head study, I gathered a room full of women in my local church to talk about what’s going on in our heads. We met for six weeks, and lives were changed. The first night those women streamed into the...
Where You Are Is Not Who You Are | Chrystal Evans Hurst
As a young girl, my parents encouraged me to live with wonder. My teachers gave me the courage to explore, my friends allowed me the chance to play, and my world offered me the opportunity to learn and grow. I had hopes and dreams and a picture of...
The Most Profound Change in My Life | Shauna Niequist
One Saturday, in 2013, I stared at the ceiling of a hotel room in Dallas, exhausted. I said to myself, “If anyone else wants to live this life I’ve created for myself, they’re more than welcome to try. But I’m done. I need a new way to live.” I was...
Stop Feeling Guilty about your Prayer Life | Chrystal Evans Hurst
A few years ago, I decided to put together a 28-Day Prayer Challenge on Instagram. I’d been feeling guilty about my lack of consistent and fervent prayer, so I figured I’d commit to providing twenty-eight days’ worth of prayer prompts to hold me...
Paul's Pastoral Theology for a Perplexing Topic | NT Wright
I have been interested in the question of adiaphora – ‘things indifferent’, as expounded by Paul in particular – for many years, both at the historical level (what did Paul mean and why did he take the line he did?) and at the practical level (how...
Where Is God in the Midst of These Difficult Times? | Dr. David Jeremiah
As we move through this pandemic and begin to think of its impact and effect, many people are asking what is going to happen now. Some are predicting the worst. “The world will never be the same,” they say. “We’ll never go back to normal.” The...
Is God Slow? | Mark Buchanan
God is slow. This is perhaps the most obvious thing about God, though rarely noticed. Of all the divine attributes that we laud or debate, ponder or puzzle over, it’s seldom or never we mention God’s slowness. Yet nothing about God is more...
Our ‘Secret Weapon’ in an Age of Us-Against-Them | Scott Sauls
When Saturday Night Live comedian Pete Davidson harshly mocked Congressman-elect Dan Crenshaw because of his eye patch and flippantly remarked, “I know he lost his eye in the war or whatever,” no one expected the former Navy SEAL and decorated war...
3 Myths about Male-Female Relationships Every Pastor Should Bust
Few of us expected pastoral ministry to involve so many conversations about relationships . For many of us, deep convictions about salvation and scripture draw us into ministry; and yet beyond the halls of seminary, we discover that the issue of...
Faith, Economics, and the Road to Loving Our Global Neighbor | Bruce Wydick
Many in the church would like to have meaningful and fruitful engagement with those living in poverty, but they are uncertain about what are genuinely effective ways to serve and give. As a result, their ministry to the poor is stifled by feelings...
5 Things the Psalms Teach Us about Being Honest to God
Is it possible to stand honestly before God without fear, to face one another vulnerably without shame, and to face the world without any of the secrets that would demean and distort our humanity? For most of us, the answer to this question is...
7 Priorities That Change Everything
Sometimes, church can look a whole lot like our hometown of Las Vegas. During the 2008–9 economic recession, an issue with squatters emerged. People were moving into abandoned homes, usually foreclosures, and making them their own. One of the best...
Free Resources
Using How (not) to Save the World with your church or small group?
Here are some tools to help:
The Small Group Tool Kit includes two mobile-friendly invitation cards, reflection cards to enhance your small group experience, and a worship song playlist curated by Hosanna Wong that can beplayed during small group meetings or personal Bible study time.
The Church Tool Kit includes a downloadable poster, bulletininsert, invitation card, and Power Point slide.
Is your church talking about anxiety, depression and mental health issues? You should be.
Shawn Johnson, lead pastor of Red Rocks Church, gives a
searingly honest portrait of anxiety and depression and shows readers how to fight back and live free. He also has put together three free tools pastors can use to help their congregation have a productive conversation around mental health, including a discussion guide, sermon notes and key Scripture verses.