Groundwork’s Founding Co-host Retires
For eleven years, Dave Bast’s voice has comforted and encouraged listeners with biblical insights and thoughtful reflections on Groundwork.
Support Students; Don’t Villainize Them
Dr. Watts has seen first hand the significant challenges of unconscious bias that many Black students have had to deal with and the devastating effects they can have.
Everything Is Systemic
Pastor Scott DeVries writes in this article that viewing racism as a system recognizes it as a complex reality that will take effort to understand and work against.
Discipleship in a Time of Pandemic
A conversation about wise ways to make disciples with some of the leadership team of City Church in Compton, California.
Rugged Relationships and a Restorative Church
How can we envision shalom in a society of increasingly complex webs of relationships, systems of governments and institutions?
Church Communication Strategy: A Guidebook from Church Juice
Our “Church Communication Strategy: A Guidebook” walks you through evaluating the effectiveness of your current communication practices, finding your audience, building your processes, and creating your content strategy.
The First Canadian and Christian Business as Mission Network Launches!
The BAM Canada Network is a digital platform to stimulate Business as Mission collaboration by connecting all Christians from any occupation and industry who are looking to combine their passions with the power of business to share the Gospel and create meaningful change.
S.O.S. Part 3: My Journey of Recognizing, Remembering, and Processing Abuse
This story is part of Safe Church Ministry's SOS series. In this post, an anonymous CRC congregant shares his journey of recognizing, remembering, and processing the abuse he endured.
The Practice of Walking
The daily practice of walking this past year has helped me understand at least three different ways that I can cultivate practices of prayer and spiritual disciplines in my life.
Relationship in Love
I’ll choose love over comfort in order to know and be known by Christ.
A VW Bus, Your Congregation, and Renovation
Our churches have treasured traditions. How do we take those traditions into the 21st century?
Recruiting New Deacons During a Pandemic
We've heard from a few churches that finding new deacons right now is difficult. How is your church handling recruitment?
7 Ways You Can Check In With Your Girl
Your girl longs for you to show up, slow down, and really see her.
Financial Shalom Resource Roundup (April 2021)
Financial Shalom provides grants to help pastors get training, tools, and resources to strengthen the financial education of them and their churches.
Friendships and Kingdom Service
Read the story of how Roger and Audrey Otten share the light in their community.
TherforeGO Announces SERVE@Home for 2021
SERVE@Home gives churches and youth ministry teams the opportunity to do missions at home.
Are You Ready to Be the Answer to Someone’s Prayer?
As new cultures increasingly become part of our neighborhoods, how do we follow Jesus' command to "love your neighbor as yourself?"
Corn Fields and Cow Farms
How a crowd of bovine buddies helped to break up my bloated balloon of gaseous stress, and how it might help you too.
Roadmap to Post-Pandemic Recovery: Faith Formation Planning for the Future
Here are four ways to think about post-pandemic faith formation in your congregation, plus resources to help.
Creative, Simple Ways to Make and Use God’s Big Pentecost Story Symbols
Here are a few creative, simple ways to use God’s Big Pentecost Story, a free downloadable resource, to celebrate Pentecost.