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Gordon Atkinson is a real live preacher working in San Antonio, Texas. Not surprisingly, he has written a book by that name, which is a collection of blogs for his website named—you guessed it!—Real Live Preacher.
Duke Divinity School has a wide-ranging website that highlights several areas of interest to pastors.
Does your church know its neighbors? This resource from Diaconal Ministries Canada will help you to see where God is already at work in your community, to help you understand your community, and to reveal ministry opportunities within it.
Did you know that nearly half of all the gifts given from the CRWRC gift catalog are from Sunday school classes? Kids love to know that their offerings will provide a goat, a well, or a pig for someone else!
This page is PACKED with resources that will help your kids join in the work of World Renew as they share the love and compassion of Christ with others.
If you've ever sent out an email proposing more than one date for a meeting then you know how confusing it can be to keep track of responses. This easy tool allows you to propose several dates and creates a graph that shows you who's available and when.
Today's churches offer more diverse programs than ever before, and church leaders must deal with increasingly complex issues. Pastors, too, are challenged by greater demands on their time and increasing stress levels.
Deciding to see life from some else’s point of view takes work. Here are some examples of empathy to help you empathize with others.
Brain Rules by John Medina offers "12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work, Home, and School"—and I would add church to the list as well.
The CRC and the Reformed Church in America collaborated to produce this resource. Use the attached file to print and hang in your church.
Listening Groups have one purpose: to listen to God. In this document I present three conversations worth having. These conversations are about character, calling and community.
Strategies for elders to support members of the church to grow in faith and service in the Lord.
How can senior leadership and church staff foster responsible youth leaders? Kelli Mahoney, About.com Guide for the topic of Christian Teens, has some ideas.
“Give, and it will be given to you. A good measure, pressed down, shaken together and running over, will be poured into your lap. For with the measure you use, it will be measured to you." Luke 6:38
Reformed Worship is the well-known quarterly journal published by Faith Alive Christian Resources.
The Center for Excellence in Preaching provides many helpful resources for preaching.
“If it isn’t on Facebook, it hasn’t really happened,” a friend‘s daughter told me. Although it’s said jokingly, if something is that vital to people, doesn’t it make sense to look for ways that God can use it?
This sample letter can be used by an elder to assess the gifts of church members and their willingness for participation and involvement in caring for other members within their district
Sample form for record keeping of elder's visits to church members. This is designed ot be used as the first page of an elder's visitation log of visits to a church member.
Sample form for record keeping of elder's visits to church members. This is designed to be used as subsequent pages after Elder Visitation Record.
Back to God Ministries International is the media ministry of the Christian Reformed Church. It operates in ten of the most widely spoken languages of the world, covering a large percentage of the world's people.
How to be a mission-focused church?
If you were asked to name your spiritual gifts, what would you say? The Bible identifies at least twenty spiritual gifts that are distributed by the Spirit throughout the Christian community to enable God’s work to be accomplished.
As stewards, we are in charge of everything God has given to us—our money, our time, our talents, our homes, our families—everything!