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Along with consulting, Barnabas Initiatives assists churches by writing and speaking. By our blog, book, seminars, and speaking appointments, we offer insights and stories to stir hope, reset perspective, and prompt action.

The aim of our storytelling is to encourage ministry leaders and churches in difficult seasons of life and ministry, so that distraction shifts to focus, weariness to energy, and discouragement to determination.

Kingdom Relationships: Chaste

In only 75 years, Mere Christianity by C. S. Lewis has become a classic explanation and defense of the Christian faith. Lewis argues for the existence of God. He explains core doctrinal tenets of the Christian faith. He asserts the essentials of Christian morality. His stated aim is to “explain and defend the belief that has been common to nearly all Christians at all times.” Lewis organizes his consideration of Christian behavior around the classic virtues of the faith. Amo

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Kingdom Relationships: Married

While Connie was growing up, concentrating on music, her brothers were playing baseball and basketball. In high school and college I played soccer. Neither of us paid much attention to football until we moved to Oklahoma. There we quickly learned that football was a prime topic in Oklahoma conversations. To relate, we began to follow OU and OSU football teams. By the time we moved to Pennsylvania, we enjoyed watching football. As a substitute for Oklahoma teams, we ended up

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Kingdom Relationships: Single

According to the U.S. Census Bureau in 2020, 46% of adults in the United States over the age of 18 are single, nearly 132 million adults. If we factor out the number of these who are cohabiting, nearly a third of adults in the U.S. are single and un-partnered. When we consider the church as a sub-set of our national population, a recent study by the Barna Group found that 23% of all active church attenders are single, either never married, divorced, or widowed. Even younge

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