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Garrick Bailey and Timothy Paul Jones: Abortion, Apologetics, and the End of Roe v. Wade

25th July 2022

Christians have been talking about abortion far longer than you may have imagined. Abortion has even shown up in apologetics conversations, although probably not in the ways that you would expect.

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Filed Under: Apologetics, Audio, Blog, Family Ministry, History, Music reviews, pastoral care, pastoral ministry, Podcast, The Apologetics Podcast, Three Chords and the Truth: The Apologetics Podcast, urban, urban ministry Tagged With: abortion, apologetics, Athenagoras, Athenagoras of Athens, pro birth, pro choice, pro life, Roe v. Wade, Supreme Court, Tertullian, Tertullian of Carthage

Dan Kimball: Making Sense of the Anti-Women, Anti-Science, Pro-Violence, Pro-Slavery and Other Crazy-Sounding Parts of Scripture

22nd March 2022

Dan Kimball joins The Apologetics Podcast this week to talk about his most recent book, How (Not) to Read the Bible: Making Sense of the Anti-Women, Anti-Science, Pro-Violence, Pro-Slavery and Other Crazy-Sounding Parts of Scripture.

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Filed Under: Apologetics, Audio, Book reviews, Family Ministry, History, Podcast, The Apologetics Podcast, Three Chords and the Truth: The Apologetics Podcast Tagged With: Antonello, apologetics, Benny Goodman, church history, Dan Kimball, donkey in a bathtub, emergent church, Francis of Paola, history, How (Not) to Read the Bible, How to Read the Bible, inerrancy, Lance of Destiny, Lance of Longinus, pet trout, The Clash, They Like Jesus But Not the Church, trout, unicorns, Vintage Faith, Vintage Faith Church

Advent: The Difficult Discipline of Celebrating the Waiting

24th November 2021

Once upon a time, there was a season in the church year known as “Advent.” The word comes to us from the Latin for “coming.” The purpose of the season was to anticipate the coming of Christ to earth; it was a season that focused on waiting.

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Filed Under: Blog, Family Ministry, featured Tagged With: Advent, Christmas, patience, waiting

Urban Ministry Podcast: The Role of the Pastor’s Wife

27th January 2021

What is the role of the pastor’s wife? Amber Williams and Karen Cheong serve faithfully as members of Sojourn Church Midtown in inner-city Louisville, Kentucky, and they join Timothy Paul Jones to discuss the unique role that the pastor’s wife plays in the urban church. For more information about Sojourn Church Midtown, please go to […]

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Filed Under: black church, Blog, city, Family Ministry, Lead, leadership, ministry, pastor, pastoral care, pastoral ministry, racism, urban, urban ministry Tagged With: family, family ministry, urban ministry, urban ministry podcast

Family Ministry: Free Curriculum for Equipping Children’s Ministry and Student Ministry Volunteers

8th June 2020

You now have access to free training curriculum for family ministry, for youth ministry and children’s ministry volunteers in your church.

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Filed Under: Blog, Family Ministry, Video Tagged With: children's ministry, discipleship, family ministry, free curriculum, student ministry, videos, youth ministry

Family Ministry: When the Coronavirus Hits Home

11th May 2020

“I’m having a really hard time breathing.” One day earlier, our oldest daughter had stayed home from work because of a low-grade fever. By the time Hannah called us from her apartment, the fever had refused to recede, and she was struggling to breathe. “Drive yourself to the emergency room,” my wife told her, “and […]

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Filed Under: Blog, Family Ministry, In the News Tagged With: coronavirus, family ministry, Gospel Coalition, providence

Family Ministry: What Should We Do with Children in Community Groups?

18th February 2020

One question that I frequently receive from churches runs something like this: “There are so many children in our community groups! We want to do something with them, but we can’t figure out what to do. Right now, groups are just hiring babysitters, but there’s got to be a better way. What do we do […]

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Filed Under: Blog, Family Ministry, leadership, pastor, pastoral care, pastoral ministry Tagged With: children, community groups, family ministry, fellowship groups, group, groups, home groups

Family Ministry: Leaving Behind the One-Eared Mickey Mouse Model of Youth Ministry

28th January 2020

In the late 1980s, one student minister depicted the relationship between his ministry and the rest of his congregation as a “one-eared Mickey Mouse.” To understand this analogy, imagine with me the most basic depiction of Mickey Mouse in three circles—the two smaller circles represent his ears, while the larger circle is his head. Now, […]

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Filed Under: Blog, Family Ministry, History, leadership, pastoral care, pastoral ministry Tagged With: family ministry, one-eared Mickey Mouse, student ministry, youth ministry

History: Five Points from a Protestant Reformer to Remember on Your Birthday

16th January 2020

I recently ran across these words about birthdays in The Complete Psalter, a commentary penned in the sixteenth century by a little-known German Protestant named Nikolaus Selneccer. In his exposition of Psalm 139, Selneccer saw this song of David as a text that legitimates the celebration of one’s birthday. Along the way, Selneccer also listed […]

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Filed Under: Blog, Family Ministry, History, ministry, pastoral ministry Tagged With: birthday, five points, Nikolaus Selneccer, Nikolaus Selnecker, Protestant, Reformation

Family Ministry: Who Is Responsible for the Discipleship of Your Children?

31st December 2019

Discipleship is Too Important to Hand Over to Specialists There are some tasks so significant that they can’t be surrendered to someone else. Taking your spouse on a date, for example. Think of it this way: Suppose I called my wife this afternoon and announced, “Honey, guess what? Remember how you asked about a date […]

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Filed Under: Blog, Family Ministry, ministry Tagged With: children's ministry, family ministry, Family Ministry Field Guide, Perspectives on Family Ministry, youth ministry

Podcast: Caring for Your Family as a Church Planter

8th July 2019

What you do for God beyond your home will typically never be greater than what you practice with God within your home. Whether you’re single or married, with children or without, your family has a profound impact on your ministry. That’s why one of the qualifications that Paul gave for pastors was “to manage his own household well.” So how can you as a pastor or a church planter care for your family well? I have with me today two urban pastors–Charles Shannon and Nick Nye–to discuss this topic. If you want to lead your family well as a pastor, you won’t want to miss this episode of the Urban Ministry Podcast.

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Filed Under: Audio, black church, Blog, chuch planting, city, Family Ministry, Lead, leadership, ministry, pastor, pastoral care, pastoral ministry, racism, urban, urban ministry Tagged With: urban ministry podcast

Family Ministry: Why the Church Needs Single Parents and Single Parents Need the Church

1st May 2019

Some time back, I was interviewed by Ruth Moon Mari for an article on single parents and the church. Here’s an excerpt from the article.

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Filed Under: Blog, Family Ministry Tagged With: church, church as family, family, single parent, singles, singles ministry

Family Ministry: The Simplicity of Family Discipleship

10th April 2019

How does family discipleship happen? The same way that we “disciple” our children in certain sports and certain teams. Read this brief post to find out how to form your children’s souls in the same way you form their preferences in sports.

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Filed Under: Blog, Family Ministry, featured, Uncategorized Tagged With: baseball, children, children's ministry, church, discipleship, faith talks, family, family discipleship, family ministry, worship

Meditation: Worship as Remembering Our Place

10th April 2018

“The captain has turned off the seat belt sign.” My wife and children are at home, but I am not. The conference has been long, the flight has been delayed, it is late, and I am longing to see the lights of Louisville. Sparkling crystals of light unfurl beneath me, not evenly scattered across the […]

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Filed Under: Blog, Family Ministry, featured, Uncategorized Tagged With: liturgy, love of place, place, sense of place, worship

Family Ministry: When and Why Did Weekly Children’s Classes Begin in Churches? (Part Three)

29th November 2017

This research into the history of age-organized catechetical classes in the church is based on an academic paper that I presented to the practical theology section of the annual meeting of the Evangelical Theological Society in Providence, Rhode Island, on November 16, 2017. This post is the third in a three-part series. Click here for […]

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Filed Under: Blog, Family Ministry, featured, History, Lead

Family Ministry: When and Why Did Weekly Children’s Classes Begin in Churches? (Part Two)

28th November 2017

This research into the history of age-organized ministries in the church is based on an academic paper that I presented to the practical theology section of the annual meeting of the Evangelical Theological Society in Providence, Rhode Island, on November 16, 2017. This post is the second in a three-part series. Click here for Part […]

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Filed Under: Blog, Family Ministry, featured, History, Lead Tagged With: A Weed in the Church, children, children's ministry, church history, church leadership, family integrated, family integrated church, family integrated ministry, family ministry, history, John Calvin, leadership, Reformation, Reformed, Reformed theology, Scott Brown, youth, youth ministry

Family Ministry: When and Why Did Weekly Children’s Classes Begin in Churches? (Part One)

27th November 2017

When did age-organized ministries for children begin? If you thought children’s classes didn’t begin until the introduction of Sunday School, you have a lot to learn!

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Filed Under: Blog, Family Ministry, featured, History, Lead, Learn, Uncategorized Tagged With: A Weed in the Church, children, children's ministry, church history, church leadership, family integrated, family integrated church, family integrated ministry, family ministry, history, John Calvin, leadership, Reformation, Reformed, Reformed theology, Scott Brown, youth, youth ministry

Family Ministry: DiscipleGuide Church Leaders Cruise

14th June 2017

Interested in apologetics and family ministry? If so, then you’re likely to be interested in this upcoming conference. God willing, I will be part of an experience in January 2018 that will bring together apologetics and family ministry in a way that will equip you and your church’s staff for far more effective future ministry.

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Filed Under: Blog, Family Ministry, featured, In the News, Learn, Serve, Solve Tagged With: apologetics, Carnival Valor, children's ministry, cruise, DiscipleGuide, family ministry, student ministry, winter, youth ministry

Family Ministry: The Discipline of Generational Diversity (Part 2)

25th May 2017

This post on intergenerational diversity in the church is the second part of a two-part series. Click here for the first post in the series. A Model for Movement toward the Discipline of Generational Diversity If you look at your church and glimpse a lack of intergenerational ministry, it may seem at first as if […]

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Filed Under: Blog, Family Ministry, featured, Lead Tagged With: elderly, equip, families in faith, family in faith, Family Ministry Field Guide, involve, senior adult, senior adulthood, Star Wars, TIE fighter, TIE Model, TIE Principle, train

Family Ministry: The Discipline of Generational Diversity (Part 1)

24th May 2017

The Function of the Family in the Storyline of God At the center of God’s story stands this singular act: In Jesus Christ, God personally intersected human history and redeemed humanity at a particular time in a particular place. Yet this central act of redemption does not stand alone. It is bordered by God’s good […]

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Filed Under: Blog, Family Ministry, featured, Lead Tagged With: church as family, diversity, elderly, family as church, family ministry, intergenerational, intergenerational ministry, older adults, retirement, senior adulthood, senior adults, transgenerational

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