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Christian News
‘Dread, No Hope’—Sexual Abuse Survivor Tiffany Thigpen Describes Heading Into SBC 2024 Annual Meeting
Tiffany Thigpen, a sexual abuse survivor and advocate, says she has lost hope in the Southern Baptist Convention's (SBC) leadership.
Christian News
Nearly 300 ACNA Clergy and a Texas Diocese Call for Male-Only Priesthood
At an Anglican theological conference in January, UK priest and political commentator The Rev. Calvin Robinson stirred up a long-simmering controversy when he called women’s ordination a “slippery slope” akin to a “Trojan horse” and to “cancer.”
Christian News
As Ivory Coast Methodists Depart UMC over LGBTQ+ Issues, Africa’s Other Methodists Take Stock
After the United Methodist Church voted this spring to allow its clergy to marry same-sex couples and lifted its ban on ordination of LGBTQ+ clergy, Methodists around the world watched how the denomination’s African members would respond.
Pastors
Watch Your Mouth, Christian!
If a person walked into the church today, they might as well have stepped into a comic book convention, for they would likely find a group of people so entrenched into their own subculture that they don’t even think about what they’re saying, singing, or preaching any more.
Articles for Pastors
5 Things Pastors Dread Hearing After Preaching a Sermon
Here are five messages that pastors dread hearing after preaching. Pastors, I am going to hypothetically respond in ways you have been tempted to respond, but have loved people too much to do so.
Articles for Worship & Creative
When Prayer and Corporate Worship Aren’t Working
I was sure I could make it all work if I just tried harder. And try harder I did—to the point that I was not only exhausted from ministry but exhausted from trying to become a better person.
Articles for Outreach & Missions
7 Marks of a Good Apology vs. 8 Marks of a Bad Apology
When we direct repentance toward a person we have offended, we often call it an apology. For this reason, Christians should be better at apologizing than anyone else.
Articles for Pastors
7 Deadly Sins of Guest Preaching
So you’re invited to preach at someone else’s church. Or a conference. Or a chapel service. The venue doesn’t really matter. What does matter is not committing one of the seven deadly sins of guest preaching.
