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Whether you're planning a spring sermon series or preparing to step away from the pulpit for the summer, these articles will help ensure that every sermon your congregation hears is well-prepared.

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Worship Can Sound Like Silence and Feel Like Rest
The Liturgy Collective Gathering aims to offer a reprieve to the leaders responsible for filling the soundtracks of our services.

Kelsey Kramer McGinnis
Leadership|Preaching
In Our Pandemic-Scarred Churches, God Is Making All Things New
A look inside our fall issue of CT Pastors.

Kelli B. Trujillo
Discipleship |Leadership|Outreach
Rebuilding Church Community: What’s Actually Working?
Pastors respond.

Compiled by Markus Miller
Outreach
What We Lose When We Livestream
Do our online viewers truly realize what they’re missing?

Brandon Washington
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Leadership|Outreach
The Pandemic Destroyed My Certainty—Or Was It God?
Ongoing disruption exposed my ministry idols, helping me see the work of the kingdom.

Rick McKinley
Discipleship |Outreach
Changing Minds Is Not Our Job
We cannot control our people, and attempting to do so will only do damage.

Sharon Hodde Miller
Preaching
Strategies for Preaching to the Polarized
How can our sermons bridge the division of our contentious moment?

Benjamin Vrbicek
Português
Preaching
5 Books for Reaching Diverse and Divided Congregations
New and recent resources for your preaching library.

Compiled by Kelli B. Trujillo
Leadership|Outreach
Ghosted Again? Pastors Respond to Disappearing Congregants
Church leaders are seeking fresh ways to prevent "backdoor exits" and adapt to shifting membership.

Maria Baer
Preaching
How Irenaeus, Ambrose, and Basil Help Us See the Spirit
When the Holy Spirit seems tough for congregants to grasp, borrow these surprising images from the church fathers.

Leopoldo Sánchez