Your Digital Front Door
Every pastor and senior leader must give priority attention to their Internet experience because it is your digital front door. Visitors may only knock once, so you have to be ready to greet them and...
View ArticleWhy Are Young Christians Leaving The Church?
Sixty percent of young Christians, ages 16-29 are leaving the church and it has many of us wondering why? David Kinnaman, President of Barna Group, will sort through the statistics and offer practical...
View ArticleThoughts on Being Missional
This is a continuation of our conversation with Matt Smay from Missio on what’s at the heart of missional ministry — be sure to catch up with the first part of the Q&A. What kind of church leaders...
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NOAH – The Hollywood Movie
Post from Jon Bock This may be the most exciting time in recent cultural memory to be a movie-loving Christian. That’s because all across the U.S. and around the world, people are talking about the...
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5 Ways to Embed Evangelism in Your Culture
Bill Hybels is the founding and senior pastor of Willow Creek Community Church in South Barrington, Illinois, and the chairman of the board for Willow Creek Association. Few people would claim that...
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How to Lead Someone to Christ in Three Easy Steps
Garry D. Poole is the co-director of Cherry Hills Institute (with Lee Strobel) and author of Seeker Small Groups. Now, that’s a book I wish I could write. If only it were that easy! But when it comes...
View ArticleReaching out to their community…and beyond
Jim Dixon has a burden to share Christ with the world. When the senior pastor at Cherry Hills Community Church a WCA member church near Denver, learned evangelists/authors Lee Strobel and Mark...
View ArticleMore than Dodgeball
Next Gen leaders have reached a consensus—youth groups are more than pizza parties and dodgeball tournaments. While Next Gen ministries may have progressed from competitive sports and carb-laden...
View ArticleThose Days are Gone
How can we address the rise in skepticism? One in 4 Americans under 30 now describe their religion as “atheist”, “agnostic”, or “nothing in particular” — and the number of people with no religious...
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Cedar Creek Makes Toledo Better
Ben Snyder’s first memory is of kneeling beside his bed to invite Jesus Christ to be his Lord and Savior. When other kids in school were collecting baseball cards, Ben was collecting autographs of...
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What I’ve learned about spiritual conversations
Garry D. Poole is the co-director of Cherry Hills Institute (with Lee Strobel) and author of Seeker Small Groups. When the US Census Bureau asked me to check the box that fit my occupation, I cringed...
View ArticleGive Me a Theologian!
People exploring Christianity are rarely beating their chests and demanding, “Give me a theologian!” At least not according to The Institute at Cherry Hills, a ministry of evangelism and apologetics...
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Atheists Just Go One God Further
Posted by Liz Driscoll Our guest blogger today is Australian historian, pastor and apologist Dr. John Dickson (TGLS 2011). John’s Summit talk, Humilitas, traced the historical origin of the virtue of...
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21 Christians were murdered. This is the legacy they leave behind.
These Christian men died for their faith, but this is what they lived for. In February 2015, 21 Egyptian Coptic Christians were brutally murdered by Islamic State terrorists while working in Libya....
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