Articles for Topic: Congregational Life

12 Things Pastors Cannot Do

By Chuck Lawless Pastors are, in my judgment, amazing people. They faithfully serve Sunday after Sunday, often with no desire for recognition or fame. In faith, they can do a lot—but here are several things they can’t do: Read minds. Everybody knows that, but many...

Do-It-Your-Self Faith On the Rise Thanks to the Web, Study Finds

From Baptist News Global By Jeff Brumley It seems religion in America just can’t catch a break. Religious affiliation and participation continue to dive, driven in part by young generations uninterested in belonging to anything, least of all churches. And now newly...

Doomsday Clock: Why Americans love apocalyptic predictions

From Acts of Faith newsletter: Conversations about faith and values By Sarah Pulliam Bailey Judging from the popularity of Hollywood’s numerous apocalyptic-themed blockbusters, Americans appear fixated on stories that predict ways the world could end. Humans have been...

Goodbye absolutes, hello new morality

By Michael F. Haverluck A major nationwide study has revealed that biblical morality in America is being escorted out of all facets of society, while a new moral code has been ushered in to take its place. Research recently conducted by the Barna Group surveying 1,000...

Learning to Love the Church

From CT Pastors By Eugene H. Peterson When we become Christians and start following Jesus, we soon find ourselves in the company of others who want to get in on it. It does not take us long to find many of these people are not much to our liking and some of them we...