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6 Tips to Connect Your Church with New Neighbors

Growing Pains and Growing Ministry Backed up traffic. Rising property values. Disappearing fields and farms. A changing landscape.  The growth boom in…

5 months ago

The Identity of Worship

Come, let us worship and bow down, let us kneel before the Lord our Maker." [Psalm 95:6] I am currently…

5 months ago

Military Appreciation Month

May is Military Appreciation Month As a combat veteran who struggled with PTSD and diagnosed with agent orange-related heart disease,…

6 months ago

Same Savior, Different Sunday

Why the Date of Easter Changes Every Year Every spring, Easter arrives with sunrise services, lilies in the sanctuary, and…

7 months ago

Ministry in Action

What is Ministry? The word ministry is a powerful word. It is defined as service to God and to others,…

7 months ago

Insider: A look into NRB

Behind the Scenes at NRB: The National Religious Broadcasters Convention is one of those insider moments where Christian communications professionals…

8 months ago

Staff Spotlight: Chandler Cruttenden

The Road to Radio Six months before he arrived in Knoxville to begin his internship, Chandler Cruttenden was sliding 500…

8 months ago

Breaking the Cycle

Recidivism.   It’s not a word that comes up in daily conversation, but it should. Recidivism is the chronic tendency…

8 months ago

Always Growing

by Catelyn Luckey with Tonya Stoutt-Brown   If you ask my family what I think about plants, the response would…

9 months ago

Gentiles and Jews, Insiders and Outsiders

Acts 15 is an interesting summary of the AD 50 Jerusalem Council. Gentiles were coming to the saving knowledge of…

9 months ago