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The Church Renewal forum provides fresh conversations and new ideas to help churches renew their atmosphere and journey towards mission in a post-Christian culture.
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The growing library of Church Now Conversations is a place to find help from friends on topics such as resilient leadership, new normals, and more.
Join this week's "Church Now" conversation with Mike Goheen on Newbigin's Missionary Ecclesiology.
A recent Bible Translation invites everyone to read the New Testament with First Nation eyes.
The idea is simple: U.S. history is more complex than many of us thought or were taught. Here are four books that speak to this complexity.
As you listen to podcasts this summer, there's one you won't want to miss: Christianity Today's "The Rise and Fall of Mars Hill."
Wherever you are in your church's life, Vibrant Congregations can assist you in discerning your path in ministry and mission.
Our churches have treasured traditions. How do we take those traditions into the 21st century?
In this post, we go deeper into helping congregations create a "Life Together" picture.
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.
Here are three podcasts that strengthen our ministry and carry the extraordinary diversity of God’s masterpiece.
This conversation will be helpful to pastors and leaders who want to engage a world that doesn't want to engage the church.
This prayer can help us keep our focus on our neighbor.
Mark Noll’s powerful and insightful book The Civil War as a Theological Crisis resonates with struggles of our day.
Taking words from James Baldwin, Robert P. Jones' new book holds that white Christians have been white too long.
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.
Aimee Byrd's recent book on recovering from Biblical manhood and womanhood takes on gender stereotypes in the church.
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.
In the first of the Church Now conversations, Ed Stetzer spoke about the church’s response to COVID-19 and the killing of George Floyd.
David Swanson's book is a powerful statement on the central place of discipleship in reshaping the church.
Looking to grow your church? Likely, you have people living close by who would love to get involved.
Much has been written to praise and critique Alan Hirsch’s book 5Q; Reactivating the Original Intelligence and Capacity of the Body of Christ. Despite what is being said, I find Hirsch to be particularly compelling on a couple points.
This book (Ritual Water, Ritual Spirit: An Analysis of the Timing, Mechanism and Manifestation of Spirit-Reception in Luke-Acts) analyzes Spirit-reception in Luke-Acts with respect to timing, mechanism and manifestation.