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You need a recharge after a week of working with teens! Join us for a weekly time to be encouraged by a leading youth ministry trainer and spend a couple minutes focusing on how it...
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We invite you to join Path 1 for a 5-week webinar series designed to name and explore our own history of racism and what it means to be intentionally anti-racist as we start new mi...
Designing a worship experience around the commandments seems a daunting task. Yet it need not be a heavy or finger-wagging experience. Instead, it could focus on the commitments we...
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Every congregation needs to do a church audit, but it doesn’t have to be a big expense or an insurmountable obstacle. There is an Updated Local Church Audit Guide, available free f...
Embrace Church in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, will host a Churches Planting Churches Summit on March 13-16, 2021....
This is another occasion of Jesus predicting his death and the doorway that it opened for all of us. And by “another occasion,” we don’t mean how repetitive, but instead we mean we...
UMCOR Sunday (fourth Sunday in Lent). Previously known as One Great Hour Of Sharing, this Sunday enables the United Methodist Committee on Relief to reach out through worldwide min...
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That the gospel is countercultural is beyond debate. But texts like this one are so subtly against our way of thinking that we might not even realize the pull to deny this proclama...
Though quarantining is changing the way churches engage in ministry, that does not mean the church’s response has slowed down. If anything, it is has ramped up in new and innovativ...
Just in time for Easter Sunday, this conversation will address the question, “How do we more effectively craft and deliver sermons for the entire family to hear (and understand) th...
Palm Sunday is not just Palm Sunday; it is more properly Palm/Passion Sunday. That slash is important. It is a reminder that there is risk involved in taking the side of the margin...
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