Resources

How to Overcome Betrayal Trauma in Ministry

With their friends’ departures, pastors have had to recalibrate the very real cost of spiritual intimacy in doing life together.

Why the Nicene Creed Still Matters for Making Disciples Today

Why the Nicene Creed still matters today—and how catechesis shaped the early church and can form disciples in a new global awakening.

It Takes Everyone

When every member shares the work, the whole body is better for it.

Growing From the Ashes

To rise from the ashes through revitalization, each team member (pastor, board member, and lay member) must be committed to understanding the problem, capturing the vision and willing to implement the steps to turn the church around.

How Quietness Breaks Our Spirals

The practice of stillness and solitude in the presence of God is the basis of our strategy for interrupting all kinds of problematic thought patterns.

Building the Right Team

Do you want a full-time staff member to be working with you? Before receiving that gift, you must first learn the process by which you would need to lead that full-time staff.

The Momentum of Encouragement

We should be encouragers, not competitors. If we do, we may recapture the joy of serving Jesus amid brokenness.

Biblical Foundations for the Beatific Vision

Our allegiance to the Bible is a direct reflection of our allegiance to God, since the Scriptures are his breathed-out, authoritative words (2 Tim 3:16).

Samuel G. Parkison

What do evangelicals stand to gain by reclaiming the doctrine of the beatific vision, and how might their theological distinctives stand to not only inform their reception of the doctrine but also enrich the great tradition more broadly?

Navigating Pay Statuses at Your Church

Are musicians considered 1099 contractors or part-time employees? Can volunteers work for free for the church’s for-profit ventures like a coffee shop or daycare?

Selah

We are speeding, and we need to selah instead.