Advent Week 3: A Time for Courage
Lectionary Readings: Zephaniah 3:14-20; Isaiah 12:2-6; Philippians 4:4-7; Luke 3:7-18 Advent Calendar (Cycle C) and guidance for using the lectionary In The Voyage of the Dawn Treader by C. S. Lewis…
Praying together for our election
PREPARATION During this election season, we encourage you to find a time to pray with friends and family, people from your church or small group, and maybe even your neighbors.…
Editor’s Note: The Transforming Center takes very seriously its mission to equip leaders to guide their churches in becoming spiritually…
“For what will it profit them if they gain the whole world and forfeit their soul?” —Jesus Recently, I made…
Solitude may be one of the greatest challenges for Christian leaders because we have this sense that everyone is waiting for us to come in and do what we can do. Solitude offers leaders a concrete way that God can come and do what only God can do—in our lives personally and also in our ministries.
It was a conversation similar to many I have had with Christian leaders. A pastor from a large church was…
Today is the day when the Christian church celebrates epiphany—the “showing forth” or “the revelation” of Christ in the world.…
God comes like the sun in the morning—when it is time. We must assume an attitude of waiting, accepting the…
“And they shall name him Emmanuel, which means ‘God is with us.’” Matthew 1:23 As we emerge from Thanksgiving week…
“Because we do not rest we lose our way. Poisoned by this hypnotic belief that good things come only through…
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