Hollering Into Culture: Are We Smothering the Good News in Unnecessary Noise?
"Is this the church, hollering into culture—earnest, but shrill—connected to a Truth but disconnected from an audience?"
Author: James P. Long
73,715: They’re Never “Just Numbers”
Celebrating the Country's Fastest-Growing Churches, and Refocusing on our Singular Task
Defying Gravity: Ministry Without Burnout
To lead thriving ministries, we must lead from a place of strength, our own soul care. But how?
Small Church America: 7th Annual Celebration
Words of encouragement and engaging ideas especially for those who serve the country’s vibrant smaller congregations
David Platt: Countering Culture With Grace
David Platt: "Yes, we want to be bold, but there's a contrite courage, a humble boldness, that I think the Word warrants."
Resources of the Year
In the March/April 2015 issue: best resources for apologetics, evangelism, leadership and more; what's trending in multiethnic ministry, lessons from an unlikely church planter; and The Outreach Interview with David Platt
James MacDonald: Harvest Bible Chapel, Rolling Meadows, Ill.
The senior pastor of one of the country's largest and fastest-growing churches talks about lessons learned in ministry.
Ravi Zacharias: With Gentleness and Respect
“We’ve made everything a moral issue and forgotten that the salvation message is what morality alone cannot solve.”
Jon Weece: Love Is a Verb
"We lacked a clear language and a clear strategy. We had become a strategic hybrid of every big church out there."
Directions in Outreach
Inside the Jan/Feb 2015 Issue Directions in Outreach Powerful forces are reshaping culture … and the church responds. In the church, the Spirit birthed a living organism. Growing, adapting, without changing its essence. Throughout the book of Acts Christ-followers quickly learned that this new thing—the church—through the Spirit within them, conveyed its timeless message appropriate … Continued