4 Tips for Your Church to Effectively Engage Millennials
The smartest churches are figuring out how to engage the young, busy, and powerful Millennial generation. Here are 4 ways to reach Millennial givers in your church.
Illustration: Easter: Death Does Not Have the Final Word
In Easter, we have assurance death has been put to death once and for all.
And Finally…Someone More Important the Pope Francis
At least nuns have their New Year's priorities straight. It appears a group of nuns missed a greeting from the papal office because they were too busy talking to God.
Illustration: Hope: Sometimes You Win, Sometimes You Learn
Can you win and learn at the same time? Perhaps we learn more and come out the true winners the more we lose.
Illustration: Work, Waste and Lack of Common Sense
Everyone's participation matters when it comes to the work we are called to do.
Illustration: Preaching, Sermons; Pastors and Their Wives
The preacher's wife must keep her wit and wisdom about her in their marital relationship.
Illustration: Death from the Perspective of 9-Year-Olds
Children have keen imaginations about lofty topics.
Illustration: Moral Standards, Ten Commandments
Who doesn't wish for at least one do-over in life? If we stick to God's rules, we will have fewer regrets, fewer wishes for do-overs.
10 Things the Inexperienced Preacher (or Lay Speaker) Needs to Learn Fast
Here is my list of ten things the beginning (or rusty or occasional) speaker seems not to know, but needs to learn quickly in order to be effective.
Illustration: Faith
Imagine a young girl asleep on the second story of her home. She awakes one night-middle of the night-and there is the smell of acrid smoke. She stumbles to the door and opens it to a sheet of fire. The young lady slams the door against the flames and stumbles to the window and stares down into the smoke and the darkness. From the ground below the young lady hears her father's voice saying, "Honey, jump!"