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18 Creative Ways to Support Leaders

Here are eighteen ways that churches have said to their group leaders, “Thanks! You’re doing a great job, and someone is …

In reading the gospels, there is a whole cast of characters whose lives interweave and intersect with Jesus's …

August 15th is the Feast of the Assumption. Around this feast cluster so many associations that a wide variety of images …

from Living the Good News Matthew 16:17-19 has been one of the most vigorously discussed passages of the New Testament, …

"When we follow the lectionary, we read large sections of the Bible over a three-year span. Many churches also choose to go deeper …

In our excessively active world, a world that assaults us daily with e-mail, faxes, junk mail, bills, memos, phone calls …

"Walk around the neighborhood, looking for signs of new life.... Before dinner, sing a favorite Easter song or …

"We have only to glance at the chain of prayers which runs through the Lenten liturgy from Ash Wednesday to Easter to see the …

"Invite each person to speak a special name for Jesus, for example, Shepherd, Bread of Life, Friend, Light, etc. Then pray: Jesus, …

"These experiences were occasions of great spiritual cleansing and preparation to encounter God in a new way, and serve as …

"Christ is being preached in the gospel and is growing and increasing in the world. But his is a strange growing, one …

Helping Teachers Help Children Most teachers in our churches are volunteers. We can help them provide positive …