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… good. In these years we would encourage local pastors and churches to preach them, teach them in Sunday School and … and confessions. This statement would provide a sort of safe harbor for the office bearer and give them space to …
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… that your congregation belongs to the neighborhood. Churches can look like exclusive clubs that are only for … Dwight J. Friesen’s book The New Parish: How Neighborhood Churches Are Transforming Mission, Discipleship, and … it wants to be an asset to the community by sharing the church building’s often-empty spaces during the week? Share …
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… I’m still hanging onto the hope that one day, when it’s safe for everyone to return to worship in our sanctuary, I’ll … what that might look like in your context. Whether your church has already fully returned to in-person worship, is … No doubt, since you stopped meeting with the whole church in person in 2020, people have marked milestones both …
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… that time he’d learned a lot. He could operate a forklift safely, unload a trailer of steel and stack the bundles of … machines, how to sharpen a drill bit, how to stay safe and still be productive. And Tom didn’t even mind that. … kingdom aren’t quite fair? There are some people in the church who work hard, who have always been willing to put the …
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… they still play a central—and highly—visible role in the church. That role, even today, comes fraught with … pastor’s spouse and family as well. The Christian Reformed Church’s Sustaining Pastoral Excellence (SPE) project … for her and the other spouses involved. “Our group is safe place where concerns, struggles, and joys can be shared …
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… in the apostle’s lives and the phenomenal growth of the Church. Acts 4:33 summarizes everything up until our text … mocked by human sin! Lest we begin to think that God is safe, that we can treat him as less than what he has revealed …
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… Like so many churches across the world, my congregation has begun to … are learning with their own life. Some ideas: Using their “safe search” feature, access and share free images from … Kids with Online Worship from the First Presbyterian Church of Aurora and Worship at Home with Children from First …
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… Written by Richard Poirier, president and CEO, Church Mutual Insurance Company, S.I. The first rumblings of … was becoming an all-too-familiar term. Suddenly, churches, synagogues, mosques, temples and other houses of … Religious organizations need to be vigilant in following safe social media practices and taking steps to protect their …
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… the Building Blocks of Faith were primarily developed with churches in mind, this helpful model can also provide a … educators, we know that students learn best when they feel safe and respected. Again, the Building Blocks provide some …
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… come together. It breaks; it decays; it perishes. But the church lives in Christ. That death and resurrection of long … without holding fast to Christ the head of the body the church, who is source of all life and safety. When we turn to … handles! Our life is over there with God — imperishable, safe. But that does not mean we need no warnings. Col.2:8 …
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… district director of children’s ministry for the Wesleyan church in West Michigan put it this way, “Moses wasn’t just … for an hour each week.” That hour once a week provides a safe place for kids who have grown up in the church and also …
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… When the Christian Reformed Church North America (CRCNA) was awarded a Lilly Endowment … for an initiative with the potential to transform local churches and their pastors through “Sustaining Pastoral … can help the pastor and his or her spouse keep the home “a safe haven” says Moon Bae Kim. The home should be a place for …