Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A few Sundays ago, the church I’ve attended for 25 years, Oklahoma City First Church of the Nazarene (“OKC 1st”), voted to ...

Church can be so disappointing. We want it to be healthy and vibrant, growing and missional, faithful and generous, but we often see more problems than triumphs, more fear than courage, and more ...

I often think I hear colleagues asking, “How could we attract nuns to our church?” Actually they’re talking about “the nones,” of course. One of the clearest findings of the Pew Forum’s new religious ...

One Sunday, about ten months into my first pastorate, as my congregation gathered around the coffeepot, I wondered, “Why are these people here?” Sunday morning conversations re­volved around the ...

Chosen by Megan Hill, author of “A Place to Belong: Learning to Love the Local Church” (Crossway). If you want to love the church, read a missionary biography. The early days of modern missions, in ...

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