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- 1. Gen Z Seeks Authentic Faith
- We are facing a crisis in the church. American teens are "growing out of Christianity" at alarming rates. Although almost all Christian US teens identified as Christian in childhood (94%) and Christianity ...
- Created on 28 September 2021
- 2. Supernatural Foundations for Supernatural Results
- Are you spending your time building the culture that can sustain the vision God has given you? When leading in the context of a local congregation, you really have two choices: — You can create structures ...
- Created on 17 September 2021
- 3. How to Navigate Cultural Challenges in Your Workplace Post-COVID-19
- Last week, Vanderbloemen had the honor of co-hosting the 2021 Culture Conference alongside incredible industry leaders like The 4Sight Group, Leadr, Life.Church, and others. The speakers focused on various ...
- Created on 25 August 2021
- 4. Culture Always Wins in the Workplace ...
- "Culture eats strategy for breakfast." That famous line, attributed to Peter Drucker, is ringing true now more than ever. It's a lesson I didn't understand early in my career, and it cost me dearly. It's ...
- Created on 16 August 2021
- 5. How You Define Culture ...
- CEO of Zappos, Tony Hsieh, expressed the importance of culture by stating, "Your brand is your culture." For the stressed-out leader, Hsieh also provided unconventional advice when he explained, "If y ...
- Created on 04 August 2021
- 6. How Your Church Can Influence Culture ...
- ... we shared a segment from our Christian Life School of Theology Global online course, Engaging the Culture with a Biblical Worldview, to provide wisdom for how you can help shape culture biblically. Thi ...
- Created on 30 June 2021
- 7. More Than 55 Years Later, This Song's Lyrics Ring Truer Than Ever
- It was in early 1965 that Jackie DeShannon recorded the hit song, "What the World Needs Now Is Love." Burt Bacharach and Hal David had co-written this musical masterpiece. The song was planted in fertile ...
- Created on 04 February 2021
- 8. Preachers, Don't Ignore This Ideal When Addressing a 'Different' Audience
- ... st. Preachers Make Two Errors The first error, says Stott, is to withdraw from the world altogether, to banish the culture to hell and to make our entire ministry about the Bible. We Bible-belie ...
- Created on 12 January 2021
- 9. Why Do Many People Despise Preachers in America Today?
- Those who have been called to preach, much like the prophets in the Old Testament, will confront compromise, condemn moral digression and powerfully denounce sin in the hope of reconciling man to God—they ...
- Created on 06 October 2020
- 10. Spirit-Filled Pastor: Now Is the Time for Holy Spirit Boldness
- Opportunity: "A set of circumstances that makes it possible to do something." I cannot escape this thought: The year 2020 is birthing the church's most significant opportunity since the New Testament. ...
- Created on 29 September 2020
- 11. How Long Should a Pastor Who Commits Adultery Withdraw From Ministry?
- When a pastor commits adultery, most of their fellow pastors believe they should withdraw from public ministry for at least some time. A new survey of U.S. Protestant pastors by Nashville-based LifeWay ...
- Created on 21 September 2020
- 12. 10 Elements of Great Children's Ministry Leadership
- Everything rises and falls on leadership. And that includes children's ministry. If you are going to grow your children's ministry, then you must have strong leadership in place. Let's look at 10 elements ...
- Created on 09 September 2020
- 13. Michael Brown: Spiritual, Moral, Cultural and Political Guidelines for Preachers
- ... and teach the Scriptures, not to be a cultural commentator." To a certain extent, that is true. But it is also overstated. After all, doesn't the Bible itself comment on culture? Doesn't God's Word inter ...
- Created on 10 August 2020
- 14. 10 Signs Your Church Has Been Secularized
- ... he world and the church and makes them spiritually irrelevant. Worldly dancing, drinking and getting drunk are acceptable. There are some churches that have such a secular culture that it is normal ...
- Created on 07 August 2020
- 15. Have We Missed the Point of Today's Prophecies?
- Can you receive a prophetic word and end up without His message? Can you be a part of a prophetic event and still miss the point? Every day, I open up my email and social media to find videos of dreams ...
- Created on 21 July 2020
- 16. Why Christianity Is Now the Counterculture ...
- ... he idea that a culture that was once rooted in Christian values and beliefs begins to reject and forget those values in favor of secularism, modernism, agnosticism and so forth. Most experts agree t ...
- Created on 06 July 2020
- 17. Why the Church Needs to Answer Society's Urgent Call Today
- One of the movies I watched as a teenager growing up in the '80s was Bill Murray and Dan Aykroyd's Ghostbusters. When the city was in trouble and being taken over by evil, darkness and despair, the citizens ...
- Created on 16 June 2020
- 18. Rick Warren: How We Can Face Injustice Together
- As we reflect on what happened to George Floyd in Minneapolis, we're grieved that this kind of injustice is still happening to our brothers and sisters in the 21st century. We know injustice makes God ...
- Created on 09 June 2020
- 19. What Would Jesus Do to Accelerate Racial Healing Today?
- This is the crucial moment in history when we all must ask ourselves the imperative question, "What would Jesus do?" Perhaps we should also ask of ourselves these follow-up questions: —"How would Jesus ...
- Created on 04 June 2020
- 20. What Would the Apostle Paul Do During COVID-19 Quarantine?
- ... ss than ideal conditions are the only kind of people God ever uses. God can use you because of His great power regardless of your social situation or what is happening in our current culture. Paul's w ...
- Created on 07 May 2020