How Our Church Turned Things Around – And How Yours Can Too
If you’re leading in a church that's stuck, declining, or struggling to recover from the challenges of the last few years, I want to encourage you: there is hope. Coming out of COVID and a sudden and unexpected leadership change, our church had every reason to falter....
One Simple Way To Make Your Prayer Time More Powerful
Praise is powerful because it shifts our focus from even our biggest problems to the greatness of God who is bigger than all of them.
Why Should We Pray for Our Leaders? (Three Minute Theology)
Prayer is not passive. It’s powerful. It shapes our hearts and it shapes our world. And Jesus absolutely wants us to use it, especially for the people with the most influence.
Six Ways to Change Someone’s Day
We all have days when life feels heavy, when stress, doubt, or loneliness creeps in, and the weight of the world feels like too much. The truth is, you never really know what someone is carrying. A smile, a kind word, or a simple act of thoughtfulness might be the...
Easter in Real Time: Monday, the Day the Dust Settled
Jesus didn’t just rise to change your eternity—He rose to invade your Monday. To walk with you into the boring, the painful, the frustrating. The stuff that doesn’t feel very “resurrected.” He’s not looking for infallibility, He’s looking for availability, for obedience, for someone who will say, “I’m not much, but I’m all in.”
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ABOUT JIMMY
Jimmy McLoud is the Lead Pastor of First Christian Church in Canton, Ohio. His passion – and the vision of First Christian – is to share the good news that Jesus is for all people by helping them find hope, purpose, and a place to belong. He serves on the Board of Directors for The Solomon Foundation and as a Ministry Consultant for The Unstuck Group. Jimmy and his wife, Ashley, live in North Canton with their four kids: Braylon, Carter, Ellie, and Grace.