Are you conflicted about how your church should handle Halloween? Some families enter in while others strongly don’t. If your church does something to celebrate, are you giving ground to the evil one? Those are valid concerns. In our earliest years, we went back and forth on the issue. But with the benefit of experience […]
Reach Out on Holidays
Impress your Easter Guests with this Free Gift
You want to make the most of Easter this year, but your to-do list looms large. And you want to do what’s most important. What can you do that will make a big impression on your Easter guests and have a spiritual impact on them after they go home? Give your Easter guests a copy of The God Questions Gift Edition. Here’s […]
3 Ways to Turn Christmas Visitors into Regular Attenders
Christmas visitors are not like normal visitors. Every year a significant percentage of them will leave your Christmas services with good feelings, but no thoughts of returning soon. They came because it was the thing to do. They don’t expect to be back until Easter. How can you change those expectations so they’ll return sooner?
Mother’s Day Sermons: The Surprising Way You Can Reach Men
As Mother’s Day approaches, every pastor’s inbox will be filled with clips and links to fun and sentimental videos about moms. These may be just the right thing to add spice to your Mother’s Day sermon, but your service should not be built around moms. You read it right. Mother’s Day should be about men. Here’s why: 1. On a […]
8 Strategies for Leading Chreasters To Christ
Chreasters are easy to reach and hard to keep. The easy part is getting them to one of your holiday
services. They’re actually out there looking for a place to attend on those days. The difficult part is getting them to return on a regular Sunday. How do you persuade someone to come back to church who has no intention of doing so?
14 Proven Ideas to Attract your Community on Easter
Easter is the most important day on the church calendar. Not only is it the day Jesus won the victory over death; it’s the day more people become Christians than any other day. I want to take full advantage of this once-a-year opportunity. So every year at this time, New Song begins what we call our […]
How to Celebrate Christmas in your Church During the Pandemic
October 2020 You can lead your church through the holidays this year in a way that brings connection and growth. Are you wondering how your church should navigate the Christmas season during the pandemic? In a year where everything is different, how should we handle our church’s holiday events? We love the traditions that come with […]
7 Fresh Ways to Preach the Christmas Story
This is the time of year when Christians like to read about the birth of their Savior. The hallmark accounts are found in Matthew 1-2 and Luke 1-2. But Christmas passages are found in several other places in Scripture as well.
If you’re looking for “new” and “fresh” accounts of the incarnation, here are a few you may want to read this season: