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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Christian Living
Why Memorize Scripture? Six Reasons.
John Piper
John Piper offers six great reasons why every Christian -- especially those in vocational ministry -- should commit the Word of God to memory.
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Crime and Character: The Overwhelming Evidence
Chuck Colson
Surprisingly, crime rates have fallen in the teeth of the Great Recession, meaning that those who are disposed to attribute criminality to poverty have some strenuous rethinking to do. It could be, as conservatives have insisted all along, that crime is committed by criminals. For liberals, this is bad news indeed.
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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 Blogs
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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Reviewing the video might be a key to ending spiritual slumps
David Burchett
Taking a look at good performances from earlier in his career helped an All-Star baseball player get back on track. Could that process give us a clue about getting out of spiritual doldrums?
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