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How should Christians respond to insults and vitriol from the culture?

This is a blog with a very specific audience. I know it may exclude some of you, but it may be healthy for you to eavesdrop.

Easter is your day. Churches will be packed. Hundreds of thousands of people are coming to hear one thing. "My Redeemer lives."

Despite the number of people affected by suicide, few churches have counseling or grief ministries specifically for survivors.

How we treat the bodies of the dead says a lot about what we believe. But do our beliefs square with Scripture?

Think of Romans 12 as a template, a form (or pattern or framework) which may be laid over the entire 21 verses, and which depict a healthy church.

One thing I told them then, and would tell them now, is to not overlook the chance to design your church's structure.

Here are 52 sermons for Good Friday and Easter

And it has nothing to do with leprechauns.

Pastor, do you feel a pressure on Easter unlike other Sundays? What if we simply preach that Christ was crucified, buried and rose again?

It's easy to take shots at large churches.But I am convinced that any church of any size can be learned from, and that includes large churches.

Looking for great preachers, it would appear, was never on God's shopping list.

Our imperative to fulfill Christian leadership in the digital world is not technological. We should not use this technology simply because it is...

Sometimes it is the redefinition of a word or phrase that is at the heart of our most important cultural transformations – and challenges.

I do not know what tends to occupy your life. If you are like most people, including myself, it trends toward the trivial and mundane.