Church Renewal

A conversation about wise ways to make disciples with some of the leadership team of City Church in Compton, California.

Our churches have treasured traditions. How do we take those traditions into the 21st century?

Congregations long for February 2020, but a recent Gallup poll (U.S.) shows 2020 as the end of a significant 20-year decline in church membership. To go back is to go the way of decrease.

What does life together look like in your congregation? Can members describe it? Creating a "Life Together" picture is one way to help them know.

How do we maintain enthusiasm for God's mission? Here are four Biblical truths to keep our love for God's mission alive in our congregations. 

This conversation will be helpful to pastors and leaders who want to engage a world that doesn't want to engage the church.

Is Facebook evil? How about Tik Tok? Take time and learn from two resources and decide on your own.

Mark Noll’s powerful and insightful book The Civil War as a Theological Crisis resonates with struggles of our day.

Could it be that without confession there can't really be deep renewal?

At the beginning of COVID-19, Andy Crouch wrote about churches preparing for a blizzard, winter, and a mini ice age. Here's a tool to help churches be ready. 

Kristin Kobes Du Mez's book Jesus and John Wayne helps evangelicals to see their family story. 

N.T. Wright is less concerned about the "why" of the Pandemic and more concerned about the "what" of the Christian response.