Many churches enter January with excitement about a new ministry year—only to be faced with the reality that they’re beginning it with a staff vacancy. Whether a pastor retired, a staff member relocated, or a role has shifted, leading into the new year short-handed brings real weight. But this season doesn’t have to derail ministry. In fact, it can sharpen your mission.
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Invitations matter more than we often realize. Most people who visit a church do not come because of a clever slogan, a polished website, or even a well-timed social media post. They come because someone they know invited them. That “someone” makes all the difference.
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Insecurity grasping for security isn’t an emotional experience that we ever truly outgrow. Many experienced followers of Jesus, at every age, grapple with a sense of self that is fractured, unstable, and too easily subjected to circumstances.
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Anxiety and despair blow like the winter winds. Christians have hope, though, through the gifts God has given them to battle the storms of despair.
In the life of Jesus, we see unstained love and faultless meekness, both are expressions of his boundless strength and sovereign power. Never was any man so full of compassion and so bold for truth. His love, kindness, and grace were not the result of moral weakness or passivity. His very life was a repudiation of sin and a demonstration of holy moral perfection.
LEXINGTON, Ky. (BP) – As a husband, pastor, and the father of eight children, five of whom are daughters, there are many reasons I am deeply troubled by H.R. 5, legislation ironically named the Equality Act. In this article, I want to focus on my concerns as a girl dad who loves sports.
Seminary professor David Prince recounts his high school baseball coach's lessons on routine plays and the sacrifice. "My love for the game of baseball, and the influence of courageous and gracious men who also love the game, like Wayne Mitchell, have helped shape my life," Prince writes.
LEXINGTON, Ky. (BP) -- Christians who are physically and mentally challenged, seminary professor David Prince writes, can remind the church that it is "not a gathering place for the cultural elite but a sovereignly designed community of the ignoble, weak and low."
Seminary professor David E. Prince examines the wisdom of parenting that seeks to raise "good, happy, safe kids."
Evangelicals have undercut marriage by an overemphasis on education and career, seminary professor David Prince writes. "Christian marriage and the glorious Gospel it represents liberates them from the ball and chain of trying to live the American dream," he contends.
Jackie Robinson was the first black player in the big leagues, but it would not have happened if not for a baseball exec who was driven by his Christian faith to integrate the game, says columnist David E. Prince.
Baseball, columnist David E. Prince says, is similar to the daily Christian walk it its focus on "managed failure."
Baseball fan David Prince lists everything he loves about baseball --the hope that opening day brings, a stadium filled with people from every background, a 162-game season that requires "managed failure." Baseball has parallels to the church, Prince says.
There are solid biblical reasons for keeping score in children's sporting events, columnist and pastor David Prince asserts.
