Lord’s Day’s Worship Gathering Preparation & Evaluation Guide
By Blake Boylston | 05.28.2024“They received the word with all eagerness, examining the Scriptures daily to see if these things were so.”
A Better Way to Look at Missions
By Brooks Buser | 05.21.2024People often ask me: “Is such and such a good idea in missions?” The reason for this question is that there are thousands of different things going on in the missions world today. It makes sense why pastors are at a loss in sorting through the good and bad. How do we know what amounts to “good” missions?
Are All of Our Shrinking Churches Evangelistic Failures?
By Alex Bouffard | 05.17.2024True evangelism often takes longer, grows slower, and prunes more intentionally than mere intellectual assent accounts for.
Regulative Discipleship: Why a Full Calendar Doesn’t Necessarily Produce Mature Church Members
By Caleb Batchelor | 05.15.2024If we affirm the regulative principle for the Sunday morning gathering, shouldn’t we also apply the same conviction to the rest of our discipleship ministries?
A Quick-Start Guide for Church Revitalization
By Jake Wright | 05.01.2024How do you shepherd a flock to healthier pastures when the sheep aren’t yet convinced that the grass is greener on the other side?
Book Review: The Church, by Erin Wheeler
By Rachel Ware | 04.29.2024Erin Wheeler does a wonderful job of both defending the doctrine of the church and describing its beauty.
Four Reasons to Preach the Psalms as a Book
By Davy Ellison | 04.26.2024The intentional ordering of the 150 psalms may have been rediscovered in academia, but it has very practical benefits for the Christian in the pew.
Give Them Time: How to Protect the Assuring Nature of a Child’s Baptism
By Michael Lawrence | 04.12.2024How do we know if we’re looking at a good kid or a regenerate kid? The one thing we know for sure is that time will tell.
Four Ways God Used a Church Fire for Good
By Skylar Spradlin | 04.09.2024On November 1, 2022, our church building burned down. Not one part was salvageable. The fire swept through the attic at astonishing speed. Not a single notepad or paper clip … keep reading…
Visible Grace in Disagreements
By Caleb Batchelor | 03.06.2024Does the tone of your disagreements sound more like the intercessions of Jesus or the accusations of Satan?
Four Benefits of Inviting Evaluation of Your Preaching
By Jonathan Threlfall | 02.29.2024In “swapping sermons” with fellow pastors, I have discovered four benefits.
Does Your Church Have an Evangelist?
By Jim Donohue | 02.26.2024When churches invest time, prayer, resources, and finances into reaching the lost, God loves to bless those efforts with fruit.
Pastoring a Transient Church
By Josh Hayward | 02.21.2024How can pastors shepherd their ever-changing flocks to devote themselves to fellowship?
Leading a Congregational Church Through Constitutional Change
By Trent Rogers | 02.15.2024Here are eight nuggets of practical wisdom for leadership in an elder-led, congregational church about changing its constitution.
Pastoring a Small Church While Parenting Special Needs Children
By Eric Brown | 02.13.2024All pastoring and parenting is hard. But some situations may be more difficult than others.
