Do you want your church to grow? Are you reaching the people looking for a church just like yours? Some of those folks are looking in your area for the first time and yet others for a variety of reasons are looking for a new church home.
If your church is like many organizations, you don’t [...]
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The fall of the Berlin Wall changed personal landscapes as well as political maps. One couple living an ordinary life along the German-Polish border managed to turn the clock back decades.
St. Nikolai Evangelical Lutheran Church hasn’t changed much since the 16th century. Bach once played the organ here and the music remains alluring, but it [...]
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During my last post, I outlined some very different conversations that I had had recently with 3 individuals describing their church and what they thought was important. In essence, they were detailing their church identity.
The basic premise of this entry is about identity and how we’ve got to figure out who we are, both as [...]
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Recently, there’s been a lot of talk in the news and around the dinner tables throughout the US and the world for that matter about the term: Bail-out. It is the word of the moment.
The government bailing out AIG, Fannie Mae, and Freddie Mac. Stock, financial institutions and banks got bailed out because of the [...]
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