Connecting Church and Family,
Part 3
Andreas Köstenberger with David W. Jones
Does God's Word mandate a family-integrated approach to church? How should churches strengthen families? Authors Andreas Köstenberger and David W. Jones weigh in on this delicate issue facing church leaders today (Part 3, the final installment in this series).
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Confessions of an Insignificant Pastor
Phil Miglioratti
"80 percent of pastors quit the ministry in their first five years, and 1,200 ministers leave the ministry each month. Who ministers to the pastor today? Where does the minister go for help?" --Mark Elliott, author of Confessions of an Insignificant Pastor
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This Week in Church History
Schism between East and West Began -
July 6, 1054
The division of the Roman Empire into halves was eventually echoed in the church. The break came when Michael Cerularius was Patriarch of Constantinople and St. Leo pope in Rome. In 1053, Cerularius circulated a treatise criticizing the practices of the Western church...
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Featured Devotional
Seriously!
A Wisdom Retreat with Stephen Davey
"Do you have a responsibility to explain your religious beliefs to others who may believe differently?" When people claiming to be Christians were asked this question in a recent survey, guess how many answered in the affirmative? (Read more)
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Featured Blog
What to Do when Your Older Child Breaks Your Heart
Dr. Paul Dean
It's hard for parents of young children to imagine the heartbreak that a little one can bring upon parents fifteen or twenty years down the road. The Bible does say "train up a child in the way he should go and when he is old he will not depart from it," but is a proverb is something that's generally true; or an explicit promise from God?
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