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What is the status of the church and what does the future look like?
What is the status of the church a few months into 2023? It is broken… Continue reading
COVID and Harmony in the Church
Over the past three years, the pandemic has impacted our churches in a variety of ways. One of the saddest has been the tension created in some churches because of different views people have had on how the church should respond to the pandemic. Continue reading
The Return to Normal – What Does It Mean?
At the start of the pandemic, I read… Continue reading
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Tagged church returning to normal, covid vulnerable, Elsie Froment, inclusion of disabled
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Today’s Youth Desire Mentors
Mentoring relationships may be one way in which youth cross from meaninglessness to purpose and begin to experience the fullness of life in Christ. Continue reading
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Tagged desire for mentors, mentors, mentors for youth, need for mentors, youth despair, youth meaninglessness, youth thrill seeking
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Are Pastors Essential Workers?
The Covid19 pandemic…I’m sure you are as weary of it all as I am. I look back on the year and my role as a pastor and think it is a fair question to ask, “are pastors and church staff members essential workers?” Continue reading
“Leaders and Followers” in the Church
Whereas in the 1960s and 1970s great effort was made to dispel the myth of the clergy-laity distinction within the church, we have resurrected it in a new guise… Continue reading
Faith Formation for Children through Worship During the COVID-19 Crisis
We live in a society that has increasingly separated families according to age groups… Continue reading
The Creator God Versus the Coronavirus
A couple of months ago I was the victim of a random assault. I was innocently playing with my phone and minding my own business when… Continue reading
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Tagged and Genesis, COVID, COVID and Creator, COVID and God, COVID and seminary, jonathan numada, Numada PhD
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The Active Christian in a Post-Covid-19 World: Understanding the Christian-Ecclesial Imperative
The first question to ask in respect to Christian witness in the contemporary context is… Continue reading
Church, Ministry and Heroes in the “Novel” Normal: Reality in Virtual and Actual
Covid-19 is a black hole. Its event horizon threatens to take every experience and assurance of what life used to be like beyond the point of no return… Continue reading
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Tagged Brian Rapske, church and covid-19, church and pandemic
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The Church is Still the Church
As churches adapt to a new reality, let us do so in full consideration of our understanding of the nature and mission of the church… Continue reading
The Pressure of the Weekly Sermon
Why Preach? Sunday’s coming. It doesn’t matter whether you are crazy busy, worn out, discouraged, embroiled in conflict, or sermon-blocked. Sunday’s coming. Continue reading
Your First Day in Ministry
It was Monday morning. Bright, sunny, and pleasant. As I looked forward to my week of ministry, I envisioned spending the rest of Monday carefully crafting a sermon for the upcoming Sunday. As a relative newcomer to sermon preparation Continue reading
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Tagged beginning ministry, Christian leader, church, Dave Horita, ministry, pastor, pastor manage time
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