Reposted from my Substack newsletter
I have been asked by a number of church leaders if the approach we are advocating for an approach to allegations, which we call survivor-sensitive or survivor-centric or trauma-sensitive etc, diminishes ...
A recent jobs report revealed an interesting discrepancy in the labor market of the United States. According to the report, there are 10 million job openings and 8.4 million people without a job. Did we read that right? We have 1.6 ...
Pastors have been using other preacher's material for years. When I was growing up, preachers would regularly quote Billy Graham, Vance Pittman, and Charles Spurgeon. They would also throw in a quote from their favorite childhood ...
The Point of No Return
Discipleship.
If you've been in church for as long as I have, hearing or seeing the word "discipleship" can almost send you into a coma. The picture that comes to mind is nearly universal: a group ...
The Spiral of Grace
Most of us want to deal with life the same way we climb a set of stairs. We want to face our problem, get through it, step up and move on. Then, we want to face our next problem, deal with it, step up and move on. ...
By Jeff Banman
What is the most evangelistic thing a Christian could do? Suppose a certain Christian desired all people to know Jesus and they gave themselves wholeheartedly to that task, what might it look like? As evangelicals we ...
I knew things were changing several years ago when our church began the second phase of our construction and were ready to build a gym. Everything was going according to plan until the student ministers asked us not to build a gym. ...
We continue series with Northern Seminary DMin grads who summarize their chapter from Wise Church.
This post is by Dave Johnston
At 27, Lisa Piccirillo, started her tenure-track position as assistant professor of Mathematics at MIT. ...
We continue series with Northern Seminary DMin grads who summarize their chapter from Wise Church.
This post is by Jeremy Berg.
“That which is sweetest when we meet face to face
is afforded by the impress of a friend’s hand ...
I’ve been teaching for nearly 40 years and the best experiences I have had teaching have been the cohorts at Northern Seminary. The combination of a week-long intensive with an active Facebook cohort page along with trips abroad ...
