According to church researchers, people are more willing to attend a religious service during Christmas and Easter. You may be noticing a higher attendance rate during this season, as seekers give church a chance during the Christmas season. During this holiday season, my family and I have been visiting local church “Christmas programs” [...]
When was the last time you made an altar call? How often do you give people in your congregation the opportunity to accept Jesus as the leader of their life? I normally make an appeal for people to take the next step. The postmodern literature has typically been critical of old fashioned altar calls – [...]
One Message One Church Although most churches want to present a unified message each Sabbath, on any given weekend, a parishioner can walk away with more than 10 different messages. The greeter may use a Bible verse in their greeting. The small group is studying the book of Acts. The kids’ classes are studying creation. [...]
It was mid May when I began to hear the sounds of Christmas music drifting down the hallway of the pastoral offices at New Hope Church. I knew it had to be one thing: Pastor Rick Anderson was listening to the Advent music selection. Eight months later, the music, programming, liturgy, has been planned. The [...]
We are in the middle of rebranding our young adult ministry. As we do this, we are trying to gather important data from this particular demographic group. Here are some of the questions we are asking. Feel free to use them in your church survey. I’ve included the preliminary survey results for your interest. *Please [...]
Have you been drooling for the new iPad? Wondering how in the world you could justify the one world wonder? If you are like me, and own every imaginable Apple product (i.e., Mac Pro, iMac, iPod, iPhone), it is hard to reasonably have an excuse. That was until Little Mountain Productions came up with the [...]
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