Family members may think that taking their children to Sunday School is their main act of Christian education, but what they do seven days a week is most critical.
At the risk of offending everyone, I’d like to talk plainly about Sunday School.
(ABP) -- Dear Jesus, Everyone seems to be talking about the poll put out last week by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life.
“We Methodists aren’t like you Presbyterians. We don’t know the first thing about church politics,” said Maxie Dunham, then president of Asbury Theological Seminary in Wilmore, Ky.
With new communications tools coming on line, it’s important that church leaders stay current but also remember the basics.
At the risk of sounding unstylish and out of step, I’m sinfully proud to be a Presbyterian.
As congregations recruit leaders, they need to include at least a few entrepreneurs, who understand that health requires risk.
Amid the blur that is his first 100 days, one declaration of President Barack Obama ought to be troubling to all Christians.
Editor’s note: This column shows the practical use of listening advice Tom Ehrich has explored in previous columns. For further background, see the Church Wellness Report columns in the September 29 and November 10, 2008, issues.
Two things I know about worship.
I went to the movies recently to be entertained and I ended up being spiritually inspired.
Metrics sound dull, maybe even irritating.
Do you think Jesus enjoyed his triumphal entry? Did he enjoy the adulation in those crowded streets in the way a young preacher enjoys affirmations in the post-worship narthex?
As the recession forces church leaders to rethink their spending plans, here are some guidelines for making cuts.
Congratulations go to Wabash Presbytery. It has graciously dismissed three churches to the Midwest Presbytery of the Evangelical Presbyterian Church.
James Calvin Davis explores sports, theology, and culture, arguing that football can reveal divine beauty, virtue, and human creativity.
“I visited this church,” said a leader attending a membership development workshop, “and I could get into the main door, but I couldn’t find the door into the sanctuary.”
Mark 11:1-11
This story it set within the bounds of Mark’s overall narrative of Jesus’ passion;
On the bulletin board in the choir room at the Pasadena Church, there was a poster with a line drawing of someone in a choir robe and the caption: “The one who sings prays twice.”
So, after three years of talking about the new Form of Government Task Force project, the Outlook has finally succumbed to the temptation to put fog on the cover. Our self-restraint grew faint. Ah, well...
Last summer, the General Assembly essentially decided that the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) was not ready yet to make a clear decision on the recommendations of the Form of Government Task Force.
Effective planning requires both high-level strategy and ground-level tactics. Today let’s “get granular” and examine a tactic in Membership Development.
Editor’s Note: The OUTLOOK reported recently that the membership losses that have been shrinking mainline denominations now appear to be impacting the Roman Catholics and Southern Baptists.
On a cold January Sunday morning in Austin, my wife and I woke up wanting bagels — warm and fresh from a local bagel shop near the University of Texas.
March 9, 2009 - So now I better understand the frequent complaint of Parker Williamson arising from times when he has been..
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