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Towfiqu barbhuiya – Unsplash By Y Bonesteele During the pandemic, women were able to access abortion pills in the U.S. and other countries without going to a clinic or doctor and without an ultrasound. In April, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) temporarily lifted its restrictions on the abortion pill, mifepristone (Mifeprex), allowing it to … Continue reading “The Pandemic Changed Abortion in the U.S., Churches Must Respond”

Kelly Sikkema photo – Unsplash By Matt Henslee October is Pastor Appreciation Month, and it’s hitting me a little differently this year. A few weeks ago, I transitioned to a new season of ministry as the associational mission strategist of the Collin Baptist Association in Texas. After 21 years of serving in some role as … Continue reading “10 Ways to Bless Your Pastors This Month”

Elijah Hiett photo – Unsplash By Aaron Earls Churches and pastors are seemingly bombarded with urgency. Headlines and emails proclaim the current issue to be the biggest, greatest, worst, most important ever. In some sense, that is understandable. Many issues facing churches today, particularly the pandemic, have reshaped church life for at least the foreseeable … Continue reading “Eternally Up to Date: Developing a Ministry That Lasts Beyond This Moment”

Marcio Chagas photo – Unsplash By Tobin Perry In 170 years of the city’s existence, Dallas churches have sent missionaries to every inhabited continent on earth to plant new congregations and spread the gospel. Some of North America’s largest and most fruitful churches sit in the Dallas metroplex. But in the past two decades, the … Continue reading “Emerging Religious Groups in U.S. Offer Concerns, Opportunities for Evangelicals”

Farrel Nobel photo – Unsplash By Aaron Earls Every church wants to avoid losing teenagers as they become young adults, yet most will drop out for some time. Some will return, but many leave and never return. According to Lifeway Research’s in-depth study of young adults and church dropouts, there are steps your church can … Continue reading “5 Keys to Preventing Church Dropouts”

Taylor Wilcox – Unsplash By Gary Manning You may have seen one of the many articles about some new fragments of the Dead Sea Scrolls (DSS) that were recently discovered this year. Hoping to beat looters to a great archeological find, archeologists rappelled down a cliff to reach a cave where they found ancient treasure: coins, baskets, … Continue reading “How Experts Identify Biblical Remnants in the Dead Sea Scrolls”

Valery Tenevoy photo – Unsplash By Aaron Earls Religious people around the world may be safer from social hostilities but more at risk from government restrictions, according to new analysis from Pew Research. Generally, countries became more hospitable to religion in Pew’s analysis from 2018 to 2019, prior to the COVID-19 pandemic but the most … Continue reading “Less Religious Violence, More Government Interference Across Globe”

Cody Silver photo – Unsplash By Scott McConnell  Everyone in our community needs Christ, but many times we can feel lost knowing how to help our congregation start connecting with people. Answering these seven questions about your community will help you love your community better, pray for them more specifically, and highlight some needs God has already equipped your church to … Continue reading “7 Questions to Help You Better Know (and Love) Your Community”

Patrick Buck – Unsplash By Y Bonesteele A new study published in Social Psychological and Personality Science shows that the number one predictive factor for an American child becoming an atheist is growing up in a home with little religion or religious activity. For some, this might seem intuitive at first glance, but the disconnect comes … Continue reading “The Not-So-Surprising Reason Kids Grow up to Be Atheists”

Ibrahim Rifath photo – Unsplash By Matt Henslee Previously, Joe McKeever wrote about 13 things a pastor should never say to a congregation. After a disclaimer about obvious no-no’s, he went on to list things some pastors may be tempted to say to their church. But as we think about Pastor Appreciation Month, what if … Continue reading “13 Things a Churchgoer Should Never Say to a Pastor”