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What Is Article 17 and Why Is It So Common?
Learn more about how best to discern, avert or facilitate a pastor’s release from call.
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January 10, 2022
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How To Be Freed From the "Good Life" Trap
The reality is: a life aimed at amassing wealth for the singular purpose of self-gratification is anything but good.
January 10, 2022
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Pastor Restoration Grants
Grants of up to $3500 USD (and CAD equivalent) are now available to give pastors a much-needed respite. Apply today!
January 10, 2022
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Worship Planners Share 8 Ways to Better Prepare for Covid Challenges (Plan B, Plan C, Etc.)
Worship planning folks share how they are preparing for worship challenges in these challenging times.
January 10, 2022
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Clergy Mental Health Crisis: Is Your Church Ready? A Guide to Leaves of Absence and Short-term Disability (Canada Edition)
More pastors than ever are requesting leaves of absence as they navigate trauma, loss and mental health challenges. How can your council prepare?
January 10, 2022
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Clergy Mental Health Crisis: Is Your Church Ready? A Guide to Leaves of Absence and Short-term Disability (US Edition)
More pastors than ever are requesting leaves of absence as they navigate trauma, loss and mental health challenges. How can your council prepare?
December 24, 2021
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Learning from others: A 10 year retrospective from an English pastor on sexuality debates
Rev. Dr. Peter Sanlon wrote a kind pastoral letter to members of the PCA as they wrestle with human sexuality issues. Sanlon's approach is to show the lessons learned in the Anglican Church in England, as he contends that they are 10 years ahead of the USA in these matters. Could Sanlon's wisdom also apply to the CRCNA? Perhaps it is time to take notice.
December 7, 2021
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Current Sermon Series?
Is your church in the middle of a sermon series? If so, what is the topic?
December 7, 2021
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Rescuing the Gospel From the Cowboys (Part 1)
The truth is, our faith can be unappealing and strange.
November 30, 2021
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Does Your Church Need a Sabbatical?
When was the last time your congregation went on sabbatical?
November 30, 2021
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Hermeneutics 101
Our Biblical Interpretation class looked at 20 popular statements. Can you detect anything wrong with them?
November 23, 2021
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The Funeral We Never Got to Have: A Service of Prayer, Remembrance, and Hope from Shawnee Park CRC
On November 7, Shawnee Park in Grand Rapids, MI, held a late afternoon worship service to grieve the many deaths and losses in the past 18 months.
November 18, 2021
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On Curiosity and War Stories
We've been so busy defending our faith—holding onto our “right answers” firmly—that we’ve lost some of the freedom that Jesus came to bring.
November 16, 2021
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Wanna Buy a Pig in a Poke?
Impulse buying has been a thing since, well. . . since people could buy things.
November 16, 2021
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Growing Younger as a Congregation
How does a church grow younger? It starts with knowing how old you are.
November 11, 2021
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How to Pastor Hurting Pastors
What happens when the one who comforts those who grieve experiences trauma and grief?
November 8, 2021
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Pastors: Special Student Loan Grant Now Accepting Applications
Applications are now being accepted for student loan relief grants from Financial Shalom! Ordained CRCNA pastors are invited to apply.
November 8, 2021
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Just Decide Already! Can’t We Just Vote and Move On?
With the complex and consequential decisions Synod 2022 will face, wise leaders must manage the polarity of ensuring good process and arriving at good outcomes.
November 4, 2021
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Regional Pastors Bookshelf: Life Is in the Transitions
Car transmissions and life transitions have changed, or have they?
November 4, 2021
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In Need of Sacred Rest
What type of rest are we most in need of? Take this quiz and find out.
November 2, 2021
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Bivocational Pastors: Fellowship Now Accepting Applications for 2022
Applications are now being accepted for the 2022 cohort of the Bivocational Growth Fellowship. CRCNA pastors are invited to apply.
November 1, 2021
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Exploring Call (Virtual Gathering)
Pastor, are you considering a new call? Check out these upcoming workshops.
October 30, 2021
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November Worship Ministries Roundtable Schedule
Join Worship Ministries at one (or all!) of our November roundtables, as we discuss managing holiday stress, Advent, and Epiphany.
October 27, 2021
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Generosity Today- Fall 2021
Help generous believers give more effectively to your local church ministry by distributing Generosity Today to your congregation.
October 24, 2021
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When Church Members Don't Give
How does a person progress from giving “goose eggs” to giving something?