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Ready for Christmas

Laura Leonard

Make your celebration a meaningful time of worship.

Leadership Journal November 29, 2011

Now that Thanksgiving has come and gone, we officially find ourselves in the Advent season. While Advent is a time where the church prepares to celebrate the birth of Christ, church leaders must also spend these weeks preparing for the Christmas celebration itself. At BuildingChurchLeaders.com, we have a variety of resources to help you finalize your plans and make this Christmas a true celebration of our incarnate King.

Special Christmas Events & Services offers ideas for impacting your congregation and community during Christmas.

In “Christmas Eve Conversion,” Eric Reed explains why he welcomes the holiday-season worship attenders.

David Staal offers practical ideas to “Show People a Different Christmas This Year.”

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Public Theology Project

The Antichrist Hides in Plain Sight at Christmas

Russell Moore

First-century Bethlehem is not an escape from all the political chaos; it’s the epicenter.

A school desk and laptop.

The School Tech Situation Is Worse than You Think

Carrie McKean in Midland, Texas

There are still good teachers doing good work. But they can only do so much when state directives and district resources push them online.

A baseball hit and government building.

Geoff Duncan Brings Baseball Strategy to Halls of Power

The Just Life with Geoff Duncan

How a former MLB player found God and a calling for civic service.

Pieces of illustrations from Jane Eyre.

Why I Need Jane Eyre

Wendy Kiyomi

The heroine reminds me what it means to be beloved as I raise three children who were abandoned like her.

A family helping a foster child.

News

Trump’s Foster Care Order Sides with Christian Families

Harvest Prude

The executive order reverses a Biden-era push for LGBTQ policies that shut Christians out of fostering and adoption, but its legal mechanism is left vague.

There's a kid and a teenager isolated in a glass cube. Outside, there's a doctor looking at the kid, holding a syringe, like he was was ready to complete his task, but got stopped. On the side of the teenager are other teenagers, showing him their phones.

The Bulletin

Social Media Bans, Hep-B Vaccine, Notre Dame Snubbed, and the 1939 Project

Mike Cosper, Clarissa Moll

Australia bans social media for kids, CDC’s recommendations change, college football uproar, and the far right lens on history.

A manger on a red spiral background

A Christmas Conspiracy for Zoomer Men

Luke Simon

They’re not wrong to believe in a contested world. But they’ve misidentified the villains.

What makes a song good for corporate worship

The Russell Moore Show

What Makes a Song Good for Corporate Worship?

Russell takes a listener question about whether some songs are better than others for worshipping in a congregational setting.

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