“I feel thin, sort of stretched, like butter scraped over too much bread.” (The unnaturally aged Bilbo Baggins says this on his eleventy-first birthday in The Fellowship of the Ring.)
Can you relate?
I’ve felt it, and I’m not even a pastor. So what do you do about it?
There’s the spiritual aspect of relying on God and his power instead of our own—undeniably, that’s where we should all start. But there’s another action we can take . . . (more…)
When we look back on Church history, we see lots of familiar names and stories, like the revolutionary time Martin Luther read Romans or Jonathan Edwards preached his most famous sermon. So many stories like these have been passed down for generations, but they don’t tell the full story of the Church. [Read more…]
Easter! There’s excitement in the air. Celebration. And maybe, for church staff, a little trepidation.
This year, many churches are doing two services at once—Easter online and in person. There’s great opportunity there but also hard-to-ignore challenges:
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