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ObituaryChurchDerek Rishmawy

In Praise of My Youth Pastor

Youth pastors get a bad rap today. Some for good reason. But I've never been able to personally identify with it. Maybe that’s because God gave me the best one a kid could ever ask for.

Book ReviewsChurchMichael Niebauer

Why Your Church Should Use a Lectionary

Churches that choose to utilize a lectionary will discover an ancient, faithful encounter with God’s word that highlights the rich harmonic interconnectedness of Old Testament, New Testament, liturgy, and the life of the people of God

Austin GravleyTechnologyChurch

How a Google Voice Number Transformed My Youth Ministry

My students can ask an AI their theological questions. But while I cannot compete with the speed and thoroughness of a machine, a machine can't compete with the fact that I am human and it is not.

Jake MeadorChurchCulture

Is the Era of Mere Christianity Over?

We may be entering an era marked by the continued decline of denominationalism alongside an increase in theological factionalism.

Robert HaslerPCA Next Generation ForumChurch

Antifragile Ministry

Psalm 11 doesn’t besmirch utilitarian motivations for seeking refuge in God. It just won’t let you stop there. It directs us past the desire for earthly safety to the ultimate telos of life: the beatific vision, to see our God and Maker face to face, without a veil, and to enjoy him forever.

Derek RishmawyPCA Next Generation ForumChurchCulture

Ministry After the Boomer Apocalypse

What the next generation needs is not our ability to catch a vibe, a wave, a revival, or a trend. Vibes shift and shift again. What they need is our continued commitment to ministering, yes, in culturally wise ways, but more fundamentally out of a bedrock of biblical conviction.

Daniel KunkelFormationChurch

The Secret Place

For many churches, ministry now consists of exposure—podcast or perish—leaders feel obligated to maintain an online presence and publish their church’s conversion rate, baptism ratio, average weekly attendance, and annual earnings. After all, how are they to hear without Mailchimp?

Jake MeadorChurch

A Story to Remember This Week at General Assembly

Being a genuinely national denomination creates challenges no one else faces. But the rewards are more than worth it.

Joey SherrardChurch

Understanding the Evangelical Presbyterian Church's Unique Calling

The EPC can navigate the controversies she is currently debating if she remains true to her roots as an old school/new side presbyterian church.

Jake MeadorChurch

Organizational competence is a way of loving neighbor.

When people don't care about policy and procedure, institutions are unequipped to deal with radicals who undermine the institution's purity and peace.

Cameron ShafferChurchBook Reviews

The Church: One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic

Myles Werntz’s Contesting the Body of Christ: Ecclesiology’s Revolutionary Century is a refreshing and welcome contribution to ecclesiological discussions.

Haley IsbellChurchEducation

The Other Side of Seminary

The banal work of submitting invoices and managing calendars is easy to forget, but our institutions can't function without people who do that work well.