Resources

Fastest-Growing Churches: Lessons From the Front Lines

“People see “big C” church as judgy, legalistic rules. If we can work together and show the opposite of that, I feel like that’s our role: to rewrite the narrative of church based on serving.” —Meghan Smith, Trace Church

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!

Angulus Wilson: Evangelism Is the Heart of God

When the church taps into the mission and the heart of God, she gets mobilized, she can get revived. We can see growth and new initiative.

Mary Jo Sharp: Why I Still Believe

A Former Atheist’s Reckoning With the Bad Reputation Christians Give a Good God

Doubt as Relational

Faith is personal, so it cannot depend solely on empirical data.

What Needs to Change, and How?

Most churches perceive the need to change, but they don't know how.

5 Steps to Local Church Renewal

Focus on these things to move your church forward out of a rut.

Steve Wilkens: What’s So Funny About God?

A Theological Look at Humor

The Holy and the Mundane

The Christian life is full of humorous and profound paradoxes.

The New Religion That’s Driving Us Apart

We are more than the work we do.

Sugel Michelén: From & Before God

A Practical Introduction to Expository Preaching