Each New Year’s Day since 2014, I’ve chosen three words to give me focus and direction for the upcoming year. Coming out of the most troubling year of my lifetime, the pandemic year of 2020, one overarching word that the world needs is hope. We have that hope in the Gospel, but it’s so easy to forget …
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Three Words for 2020
From CE USA Director Alan Avera: A few years ago, my son forwarded me a New Year’s blog by Christopher Penn, introducing a “3-word exercise” for the new year. Slightly different than the typical New Year’s resolutions, these three words are chosen to reflect a desired character growth or aspirational value you want to see …
A God of Abundance or Scarcity?
Do you look at God’s world as a world of scarcity or abundance? Do you view God as stingy and demanding, or as unimaginably generous? The way we answer these questions influences how we live, worship, and relate to others. How we answer these questions determines whether we have a grumbling heart, or whether our …
Why Do Youth Leaders Love Using CY?
We will be highlighting specific resources each month. For the month of July, we chose to highlight CY! CY is a life-changing journey through the Gospel of Mark for 11-14-year-olds. See the author and presenter, Nate Morgan Locke, talk in detail about the course. https://youtu.be/LG2XtdRWMlI CY is a series of seven fast-paced sessions exploring …
Don’t Wait! Three Tips To Help You Make Disciples
Blog post by Barry Cooper According to a March 2018 Barna study, - and we may presume that a similar study of Canada would be no less disappointing - a whopping 51% of US churchgoers said they’d never heard of the Great Commission - that moment in Matthew 28 where Jesus commands his disciples to “make disciples.” …
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