3 Reasons Your Church Is at Risk of Decline

Your local church is fragile. As one who believes strongly that the local church is God’s chosen vehicle to reach the world and our own communities with the gospel, of Jesus Christ, I want to understand why this is a reality.

Through my personal examination of this, there are three primary factors that make American local churches fragile.

Sometimes Jesus Lets People Walk Away

Many of our problems in living for Jesus stem from the root problem that we think we can do it. We assume we have the power. So we set about trying to push the camel through the eye of a needle.

5 Ways to Help Kids Communicate Well on Social Media

Social media add dimensions to communication that make it different from face-to-face interactions. Ignore the impact of those dimensions, and you and your child will say and do things you regret. Understand the virtual world’s challenges, however, and you and your child can turn them into catalysts for personal growth and developing stronger relationships.

Readings in African-American History

Narrowing African-American history to a manageable number of books is nearly impossible. The offerings are so voluminous and various it’s overwhelming. 

But we have to start somewhere. Ignorance is too lethal a disease to leave untreated. Too many people do not know even the basics of the African-American sojourn. 

So, below is a short list of representative titles that ought to be in every library. 

I Kissed Rating Goodbye

But here’s the other thing, and it’s probably connected with that: those Old Reformed dudes, er, gentlemen, who guided me when I first started theological training, didn’t really get off on the word “Reformed”.  They just didn’t talk about it that much at all.

What did they talk about? They talked about Jesus. All of the time. It’s as if they were really, really close to him. They were keen to showcase Jesus from all of the Bible. Keen to show how the doctrines of grace impacted every aspect of a Christian’s personal life, ministry and worship.  Keen to show its pastoral implications, not its sassy pretensions.