What Child Is This?
Who was this Child born on that very first Christmas Eve? Why was He so important, that we’d still be talking about Him 2000 years later? Is He still important to us? To humanity? To the world?
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How to Revitalize Communion
Transforming communion from a traditional ceremony into a community remembrance. Facilitating communion has actually been a struggle for our church to work through as we’ve been on our revitalization journey.
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3 Types of Couples Who Want a Church Wedding
The wedding, or how the wedding is planned, can give a significant foreshadowing of the type of marriage that is about to unfold. Specifically in relation to the church and the minister (pastor) who is being asked to officiate the ceremony.
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Do You Want the Church to Survive, or Thrive?
Do you want the Church to thrive?
Canada’s Christian landscape has changed drastically over the past few decades. According to research, Church attendance fell from an average of 88% in 1975 to 66% in 2011, and has continued to decline.
Within the Millennial Generation, church attendance has sunk to 35%, and the rising Generation Z is trending lower.
Clearly there’s a problem.
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4 Steps to Move People from Seats to Service
From Attending to Serving. Calling people and mobilizing them from attending the church, to active service can be a real struggle. If you’ve been in ministry for any length of time, it’s a church struggle that you’ve witnessed over and over again.
Last year, our church started a process that has produced some real wins in this area. And I’m excited to share it with you!
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How to Obtain the Rest of God
As busy Believers in Jesus, how can we re-claim the concepts and practices of Sabbath rest (and in contrast, work as worship), so that we can truly receive the rest of what God has for us?
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The Ongoing Struggle to Find Sabbath Rest and Personal Worship
I recently completed a personal evaluation in the appendices of a book titled, “Resilient Ministry”. Completing the Emotional Life grid was the most telling. It’s time for some real talk.
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3 Communication Principles That Create Buy-In
Don’t underestimate the power of effective communication. There’s a temptation (likely inside every pastor) to hold on to that information until the last possible moment, then tell everyone in one shot. Don’t do that!
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Why We Chose a Formal Mentorship Program
There are those who would side with an informal, organic style mentorship. And I’m sure there’s a place for that, even inside the church. However, we wanted a strategic method to bring our mentorship candidates on a journey.
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Why Adversity Often Follows Excitement
Our church is experiencing one of those seasons; where the excitement of ministry success is around every corner! But it won’t always be this way.
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Why I Love the ESV
And Why I’ll Eventually Leave It Behind. Once upon a time, an English translation of the Scriptures was hard to come by. Soon enough, with the invention of the printing press and subsequent technological advances, copies of, and access to the Scriptures increased the opportunity for new translations. That being said, our English translations are…
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Church | Leadership | Ministry
How Gospel-Centred Vision Can Save a Dying Church
Most churches are planted with the Gospel in focus. The church where I pastor has a rich Gospel history, beginning back in 1946. Our founding pastor, Rev. H. Lee, was on his way to Alaska, when God called him to stop in the Yukon, eventually planting the first evangelical church in Whitehorse. As time moved…
