Your calling is to make disciples and one of the most influential tools you have is your weekly corporate teaching and preaching! Delivering a compelling message is one thing, but making disciples is another. The burden you feel for moving people from the non-believer to disciple is real and we believe that a preaching calendar…
A linchpin is a pin that passes through the axel to keep a wheel in place, https://www.istockphoto.com/photos/linchpin. If there was no linchpin, the wheel would eventually fall off as it was in motion. This is a picture for us of how Christ is the one who holds everything in creation together.
We all know the American church is facing challenging times. A well-presented sermon series on the Book of Acts reminds all of us that these are not unprecedented times… it’s just our time. Seeds of the faith that grew into the worldwide church were planted by God in a turbulent time. Rome is still in…
Today marks the two year anniversary of Ministry Pass! We wanted to share some of the backstory of how our company started so we filmed an interview with our founder, Justin Trapp. When we set out to launch it, we wanted to create resources that helped church leaders at churches under 300. Sure, larger…
In Coach Carter (directed by Thomas Carter, Paramount Pictures, 2005), Coach Carter (played by Samuel L. Jackson) locks the doors to the school gym after the school’s undefeated men’s varsity basketball team fails to maintain the academic standards they agreed to during the pre-season. Despite pressure from parents, the school board, and members of the…
This four-week sermon series wrestles with the common statement: “Christianity isn’t a religion, it’s a relationship.” Christianity, by default, is a religion in the common definition of the word. The answer, then, seems to be less about losing our religion than finding a pure one. The aim of this series is to explore what it…