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Christian Living

Divine Presence and Peace: Unpacking the Aaronic Blessing in Everyday Life

It was 1924 when the Summer Olympic Games were last held in Paris. The world had yet to feel the weight of the Great Depression…
Christian Living

The Real Saint Nick

“And His name will be called Wonderful, Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.” — Isaiah 9:6b Every Christmas, it seems like Santa Claus…
Culture

Can I attend my LGBT friend’s wedding?

That is a question most pastors never dreamed they’d be asked. Yet in the past several months I have been asked that question three or…
Theology
Did Jesus Claim to be God?
Theology
The Balance Between the Spiritual & Physical World
Theology
Does Hell Really Exist?
Theology
The Rescue of Restriction
Ministry & Leadership
What Does It Mean to Teach “the Whole Counsel of God”?
Theology
Four Messy Essential Realities About Grace and Truth
Christian Living

Herzl, Dreyfus, and Antisemitism Today

There’s been much written and discussed in the past few months about antisemitism. On the day I sat down to write this, in the news,…
Culture

The Link: The Kalam Cosmological Argument, Sexual Schismatics, Missions Conference 2020 and more!

"The Kalam Cosmological Argument Defended In A Peer-Reviewed Science Journal"– Wintery Knight"Unless we are to assert that the universe simply sprang into being uncaused out…
Culture

A Film Review: “Annihilation”

The idea of existential nihilism couldn't be more opposed to my Biblical, Christian worldview. To think that everything we see and experience ultimately lacks purpose…
Culture
Response Versus Reaction to the Las Vegas Shooting
Culture
Three Prayerful Reflections on the London Attack
Culture
Support for Chabad Synagogue
Culture
Christianity & Culture Series: Science and Christianity
Culture
CGN Leadership Statement on Racism
Culture
When Stars Fade: Kobe Bryant and the Gospel
Gospel

Three Thoughts on Effective Short Term Missions

I really like hot sauce. In fact, I recently tried to make my own. I went to the farmers market and bought some seedlings. I…
Culture

Finding Community and Hope: The Spiritual Needs of Ukrainian Refugees

By Sharon Markey, with Olya Syniuk as co-author You never get used to war. Over a year has passed since the beginning of Russia's full-scale…
Gospel

Meditations on Good Friday

“Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day” (1 Corinthians 15:3-5). Good…
Gospel
Returning to the Gospel on Reformation Day
Culture
Tim Keller, the War on Winsomeness, & Responding to the “Negative World.”
Gospel
Pierced by the Lord: Thoughts on Good Friday
Gospel
Proclaiming the Gospel According to Charles Spurgeon
Culture
Injustice, Deconstruction, & El Roi
Gospel
Peace on Earth
Ministry & Leadership

Women in Ministry: What CGN Churches Believe

In this episode of the CGN Mission & Methods Podcast, we open our Bibles to examine the much-debated topic of the role of women in…
Christian Living

Keeping the Main thing the Main Thing

We were about six months into our church plant in Oregon, when I headed out one day to a nearby lake just to spend some…
Ministry & Leadership

How to Give an Altar Call Part 1

In a post last week, I tried to show that the idea behind what is commonly called an altar call - a preacher's invitation for…
Culture
Post-Pandemic Vision
Ministry & Leadership
An Interview with Pastor Richard Cimino
Ministry & Leadership
What Every American Christian Should Be Doing for Donald Trump Today
Ministry & Leadership
Ten Ways the Word of God Wins Our Hearts
Ministry & Leadership
Church Boards: Leadership Collective Podcast
Culture
How to Help Victims of Sex Trafficking
Discipleship

Rightly Ordered Nostalgia: Celebrating the Past While Embracing the Future

In a small town in southeastern Idaho, a middle-aged man was sitting on his front porch talking and reminiscing about the past with his nephew.…
Discipleship

Reflecting Grace and Truth

“And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full…
Discipleship

Belle Patrick: A Kind of Missionary

Perhaps you have heard of reluctant missionaries and pioneer missionaries, but have you ever heard of “a kind of missionary?” This was Patrick Collinson’s description…
Articles
The Availability of Revival
Christian Living
Real Hope for the Depressed Soul – Part 3
Christian Living
A Fresh Approach to Daily Devotions
Discipleship
Lessons in Leadership Part 1: Who is in Charge of Your Church?
Discipleship
How to Win in Spiritual Warfare
Discipleship
Good Fear/Bad Fear – Understanding the Difference
Christian Living

CGN Shelter In Place Resource List

While many are under "shelter in place," lock-down, quarantine or self-isolation orders from their local governments, the team at CGN wanted to provide a list…
Christian Living

Comfort Through the Hard Times: Lessons from the Church of Smyrna

Enjoy "A Letter to the Modern Church" by Pilgrim Benham in this series on the seven churches in Revelation. .... The theologian Michael Stipe (the…
Christian Living

Will You Allow Christ to Delete Your Shame?

“Now when the Pharisee who had invited him saw this, he said to himself, ‘If this man were a prophet, he would have known who…
Christian Living
Do You Have a Slave Mentality?
Christian Living
The Privilege of Being Home with God
Christian Living
What Worship Can Accomplish
Christian Living
Three Hindrances That Need to Be Stripped From My Life
Christian Living
JESUS IS GREATER Than Everything Today Throws At Us
Christian Living
Finding Peace in Surrender