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By Karl Vaters Church attendance should be a tool to help people draw closer to Jesus. Not the other way around. I have a confession to make. As a pastor, I have too much invested in getting people to attend church. My salary depends on it. My reputation depends on it. My sense of self-worth... Continue Reading →
By Scott Armstrong What is your passion? What gets you out of bed even on the bad days? When I was a teen, I probably would have thought of such questions as irrelevant or even dumb. I was driven to get good grades, but I was probably just as passionate about eating ice cream or... Continue Reading →
By Rev. Rob Prince We have no idea how big the Universe is. The farthest thing we have measured so far with the help of a mighty telescope—actually two telescopes: one in Hawaii and one in outer space—is 13 billion light years away (a light year, by the way, is 5.88 trillion miles). So the... Continue Reading →
By Rev. Rob Prince Smoke went up when I said “Yes” to God’s call into full time ministry. It wasn’t a “white-smoke-out-of-the-chimney-like-when-they-elect-a-pope” kind of smoke; it was more like a “too-much-wet-wood-on-the-fire” kind of smoke. I was sitting beside a campfire on the Church of the Nazarene’s Eastern Michigan District Campgrounds at a teenage “afterglow” following... Continue Reading →
By Scott Armstrong Need a new beginning in your life, in your city, or in your church? God specializes in helping us start afresh. God gives us fresh songs of praise. “He put a new song in my mouth, a hymn of praise to our God. Many will see and fear the Lord and put... Continue Reading →
By Howard Culbertson "Though [a mustard seed] is the smallest of all seeds, yet when it grows, it is the largest of garden plants and becomes a tree, so that the birds come and perch in its branches.” -- Matthew 13:32 Matthew 13 contains over half a dozen of Jesus’ parables about the Kingdom. Jesus... Continue Reading →
I received the following reflection from Rev. Howie Shute. Howie and his wife Bev served for many years in the Horn of Africa as missionaries with the Church of the Nazarene and were part of a truly amazing movement of God in those countries. Currently they serve as pastors of the Victory Hills Church of... Continue Reading →
By David A. Busic There has been a great deal of research and discussion about the impact of millennials (those reaching young adulthood in the early 21st century) on the church and the impact of the church on millennials. Much of the data tends to focus on the negative aspects of their demographic. However, in... Continue Reading →
This is part two of the article published in the previous post. Accountability is More Than Just Once a Week There are 24 hours in a day, 168 hours in a week and approximately 720 hours in a month. Do we really think that sitting across from someone for 1-2 hours out of 168 and 4-8... Continue Reading →
This article was originally posted at Relevant Magazine. When I was barely in double digits, I was introduced to pornography by a friend. As intriguing as it was, I knew it wasn't right. What I didn't know though was that I would choose to walk down a road that saw me addicted to that nonsense for... Continue Reading →
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