Creativity
Teaching with The Chosen: How Drama Shapes Disciples

Teaching with The Chosen: How Drama Shapes Disciples

Why Teaching with The Chosen is Powerful The Chosen is a television drama series that portrays the life of Jesus through a multiseason, episodic format. Created, directed, and cowritten by Dallas Jenkins, the show presents the story of Jesus in a unique way by deeply...

Work With Your Hands: How to Make Meaning in Your Work

Work With Your Hands: How to Make Meaning in Your Work

Why We Need to Work With Our Hands A sweaty summertime rain falls on the corrugated tin roof of my father’s workshop as I position one end of a ten-foot, mill-cut cypress board near the mouth of a tool called a planer. I push the wood into the planer, and the...

Creative Destruction: A Path to Church Renewal

Creative Destruction: A Path to Church Renewal

Creative destruction is an act of dying so something new might emerge (Joshua Hayden, Creative Destruction: Towards a Theology of Institutions, 6). But how do we know what needs to die? Understanding Creative Destruction in the Life of the Church Central to our faith...

Bach’s Music: A Testament to God’s Glory

Bach’s Music: A Testament to God’s Glory

Johan Sebastian Bach’s music has long been considered among the greatest artistic expressions in human history. When eminent scientist Lewis Thomas mused about what was the greatest testament of earth’s achievements to send into deep space, he replied, “I would vote...

The Spiritual Sub-text of Music

The Spiritual Sub-text of Music

There is a special joy for a Christian in teaching, because for every subject there is a backdrop of God’s reality and presence. For instance, in the teaching of mathematics, the lesson is about truth and distinguishing truth from falsehood: God is the God of all...

How to Make the Most of Your Online Services

How to Make the Most of Your Online Services

Now that we are about a year into the COVID-19 pandemic, most churches have adapted to the “new normal.” This means nearly every church has started offering online services. Perhaps you feel like online services are not making enough of an impact. Or maybe you’re...

Finding Your Superhero

Finding Your Superhero

I got the call on a typically busy day of both ministry and publishing. FOX News wanted to do an interview on the upcoming Superman movie release, specifically on my thoughts of Warner Bros. Studios marketing this superhero to churches. Since I was both a comics...

Mastering the “Art” of Church Communications

Mastering the “Art” of Church Communications

Pastor Resources · Mastering The Art Of Church Communications   To communicate effectively, church leaders need to use precise, carefully chosen messages with accurate and complete details. Words are certainly a key component, but they’re just part of the equation....

Appreciating nature in your backyard

Appreciating nature in your backyard

Pastor Resources · Appreciating Nature - Appreciating Nature   I wanted to take a few moments to share with you how nature and creation has been really significant to us and to our family in these last few days. Like you, our lives have been turned upside down in...

Your voice, not your version of someone else’s

Your voice, not your version of someone else’s

  I was in my midtwenties when I met Gwen. My college days were over, and it was a matter of working, investing in my calling, and building my adult life. I started working at my local church, and for the first year, I felt like a fraud on a daily basis. My...

Teaching with The Chosen: How Drama Shapes Disciples

Teaching with The Chosen: How Drama Shapes Disciples

Why Teaching with The Chosen is Powerful The Chosen is a television drama series that portrays the life of Jesus through a multiseason, episodic format. Created, directed, and cowritten by Dallas Jenkins, the show presents the story of Jesus in a unique way by deeply...

Work With Your Hands: How to Make Meaning in Your Work

Work With Your Hands: How to Make Meaning in Your Work

Why We Need to Work With Our Hands A sweaty summertime rain falls on the corrugated tin roof of my father’s workshop as I position one end of a ten-foot, mill-cut cypress board near the mouth of a tool called a planer. I push the wood into the planer, and the...

Creative Destruction: A Path to Church Renewal

Creative Destruction: A Path to Church Renewal

Creative destruction is an act of dying so something new might emerge (Joshua Hayden, Creative Destruction: Towards a Theology of Institutions, 6). But how do we know what needs to die? Understanding Creative Destruction in the Life of the Church Central to our faith...

Bach’s Music: A Testament to God’s Glory

Bach’s Music: A Testament to God’s Glory

Johan Sebastian Bach’s music has long been considered among the greatest artistic expressions in human history. When eminent scientist Lewis Thomas mused about what was the greatest testament of earth’s achievements to send into deep space, he replied, “I would vote...

The Spiritual Sub-text of Music

The Spiritual Sub-text of Music

There is a special joy for a Christian in teaching, because for every subject there is a backdrop of God’s reality and presence. For instance, in the teaching of mathematics, the lesson is about truth and distinguishing truth from falsehood: God is the God of all...

How to Make the Most of Your Online Services

How to Make the Most of Your Online Services

Now that we are about a year into the COVID-19 pandemic, most churches have adapted to the “new normal.” This means nearly every church has started offering online services. Perhaps you feel like online services are not making enough of an impact. Or maybe you’re...

Finding Your Superhero

Finding Your Superhero

I got the call on a typically busy day of both ministry and publishing. FOX News wanted to do an interview on the upcoming Superman movie release, specifically on my thoughts of Warner Bros. Studios marketing this superhero to churches. Since I was both a comics...

Mastering the “Art” of Church Communications

Mastering the “Art” of Church Communications

Pastor Resources · Mastering The Art Of Church Communications   To communicate effectively, church leaders need to use precise, carefully chosen messages with accurate and complete details. Words are certainly a key component, but they’re just part of the equation....

Appreciating nature in your backyard

Appreciating nature in your backyard

Pastor Resources · Appreciating Nature - Appreciating Nature   I wanted to take a few moments to share with you how nature and creation has been really significant to us and to our family in these last few days. Like you, our lives have been turned upside down in...

Your voice, not your version of someone else’s

Your voice, not your version of someone else’s

  I was in my midtwenties when I met Gwen. My college days were over, and it was a matter of working, investing in my calling, and building my adult life. I started working at my local church, and for the first year, I felt like a fraud on a daily basis. My...

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