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The Five Best Books I Read in 2025

The Five Best Books I Read in 2025

Reading has a way of shaping you, whether you realize it or not. It stretches how you think, gives you language for ideas you’ve been carrying around, and is a quick and easy escape in the middle of a busy season. For me, reading is part growth, part curiosity, and...

6 Tools Every Youth Pastor Should Know About

6 Tools Every Youth Pastor Should Know About

I'm always looking for free or low-cost tools that can be easily implemented into our student ministry to save time, money, resources, and increase productivity. When I come across tools that are useful to our team, I love to pass them on. Here are five tools that...

8 Sites to Find Great Stock Images

8 Sites to Find Great Stock Images

If you blog, design, or create content for pretty much anything, you're always looking for good stock photography or images. As tempting as it can be to jump on Google and do a quick search for a good image, there's always the risk that you'll use someone copyrighted...

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 on the Advisory Team for The Unstuck Group. Jimmy and his wife, Ashley, live in North Canton with their four kids: Braylon, Carter, Ellie, and Grace.