Glenn Duker

Now that you have your Christmas lights and decorations down and stored away, it’s time to start thinking about your resolutions for the new year. While dieting and exercise are noble endeavors, you may want to undertake a much more profound resolution, like improving your faith. When Christians demonstrate strong faith, they trust in God more to direct their lives. That said, the following are some ways to enhance your faith in 2022.
Read the Bible
The Bible teaches Christians how to live an...

If you’re at a loss as to how to promote your church, you’ll be happy to know that it might be easier than you think. In many ways, promoting a church isn’t that different from promoting any other business, especially in the age of social media.
Starting With Facebook
As with any other organization, the best place to begin promoting your church is on Facebook. Creating a Facebook page for a church is free, and it gives you plenty of promotional opportunities. You can post videos and other con...

The Bible is perhaps the most important and influential text ever written. It is easily the most widely available book in the world, and it contains lessons that anyone can take to heart even if they aren’t that religious. Here are some of the biggest lessons that you can take away from Scripture.
Love Is The Most Important Thing Someone Can Provide
To say that there is a lot of material in the Bible is an understatement. The modern Bible contains 66 books that date back to the beginning of h...

Becoming a pastor within one’s church is an act of service. It is an office identified in the list of the five-fold ministries of the church. Pastors are not only crucial in helping to spread the word of God, but they also provide guidance in the Christian community within one - and sometimes many - churches. To understand the role of a pastor, it is helpful to learn more about some of the attributes of pastors.
Some pastors who are teachers can also be evangelists but there will usually be o...

Baptism is an important subject that is probably discussed often in lots of peoples’ homes. As the children in religious homes get older, they will start to pay more attention to what they are learning regarding religion and begin to ask important questions about things like baptism. Children that go to church on a regular basis every week will have the opportunity to see others come forward and be baptized in Christ, which offers a chance for these children to have discussions about baptism,...

Not unlike other holidays, the celebration of Christmas is a combination of Christian, folk, and Pagan traditions. Feasting, celebrating, hanging wreaths, and decorating doors to ward off evil spirits are remnants of the Pagan midwinter festival. Holly was used in various pagan customs and associated with the Sun God. While Christmas is celebrated worldwide, it is not observed on the same day or in the same manner.
The Christmas Season in Europe
In Europe, where many countries began as Cathol...

Although many people dread going to church every Sunday, they may not realize the full range of benefits of going to church regularly. A church is a community of people who act as a second family. So becoming a devoted church member is one of the best ways to get through any difficult time.
Offer financial support
Nearly every church collects offerings each week. A number of churches collect offerings that benefit individual members of the congregation. These offerings are given as acts of co...

Perhaps no book in history has caused more conflict, division, and strife than that of the Bible. While many see it as a holy book full of miraculous wonder, it is also a historical book full of events that have been well documented in other places as having occurred. Written by dozens of different authors, the Bible is actually more of a compilation of books than a singular book. It also consists of two separate and distinct sections, the Old Testament and New Testament.
There is also a grea...