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Bleeding in the Sermon: How to Preach in Grief

“It’s Frederick Buechner’s fault,” I tell myself on Sunday morning. I’m getting ready to return to my home church to speak. I’m trying to figure out who is to blame for this strange emotional position I find myself in: I’m going to be in the same room where I’ve delivered my…

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Three Questions that Changed My Approach to Leadership

One month into the COVID pandemic, I experienced leadership paralysis. It was not just that the operations of our ministry had to be relocated to digital forms – as a college ministry who works with digital natives, we were well positioned and nimble enough in our…

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The Superabundant Provision of God

A Review of  We Aren’t Broke: Uncovering Hidden Resources for Mission and Ministry Mark Elsdon Paperback: Eerdmans, 2021 Reviewed by C. Christopher Smith Here at Englewood Christian Church on the Near Eastside of Indianapolis, one of our favorite stories from the Gospels is the so-called “feeding of the…

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Opening My Eyes to New Possibilities

When I accepted my position at Westwood Christian Church in June of 2020, I was nervous. I had never been a lead pastor before and almost no one has done this kind of work in the midst of a pandemic before. Leading a church is hard enough. Doing so in…

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