Books

When You Don’t Want to Read the Bible

You were ultimately made to respond to God’s heart. You were made to know the voice of the Good Shepherd, to lean on his care, to depend on his provisions, to trust in his protection. You were made to come running when your Father calls you home to sit at his table!

David Kinnaman: Start the Conversation

Church leaders must recognize that what feels hidden is actually hurting people, and that discipleship includes helping people break free from destructive patterns.

My Top 5 Books on Evangelism

The spiritual discipline of evangelism requires a faithful walk with the Lord, intentionality, understanding contexts, and connecting with people far from God.

6 Ways Your Church Can Promote Mental Health

Connecting the ministries of your church to those who struggle with mental illness.

Phoebe

In God’s Kingdom, unknown people like Phoebe are tasked with important work.

Pleasing God or Pleasing People

Overcoming the drive toward people-pleasing as a pastor

3 Shifts Coming to the Church

The old way of doing things is being transformed into a new opportunity to serve the church with a more extraordinary voice.

Learning to Love

Our desire to demonstrate that we were on the right side of things—in our desire to demonstrate that we “understood” the injustice of it all—we were, despite our sincerity, turning a movement that was ostensibly about equal rights into a movement that was really about our own moral righteousness.

Teach Your Congregation How to Develop a Daily Prayer Habit

A 2018 survey by Crossway revealed that only 2% of people surveyed felt very satisfied with their prayer life. Follow these five steps to help them.

Serving In the Gutters

Being a lay missionary is not always helping the ones you want to help but helping all those who have fallen short of the glory of the Lord.

The Secret to Healing the Racial Divide

Racism and racial injustice are sins so deeply embedded in our culture that it is going to require disciples of Jesus who thoroughly rely on the Holy Spirit and who passionately inhabit Jesus’ love to change things.