The Outreach Resources of the Year honors the past year’s best books that emphasize outreach-oriented ideas that churches and organizations of all sizes can use. In this section you will discover valuable tools that belong in your library of resources to further the kingdom of God. You will reach for them time and again as they enhance your effectiveness in ministry through the years.
In the kingdom of God, the citizens see everyone as connected to everyone else. Like the forest promoting life within itself, those in the kingdom see all of humanity connected to one another. This vision of cooperation and collaboration invites shared purpose across differences.
We are speeding, and we need to selah pause and listen instead.
When we choose to be a sanctuary, we are a people and a place that are safe for all people, like Jesus was and is.
Our work might also be a means of worship—God calls work good when we pursue quality, beauty, truth, and integrity in what we make, write, and build.
Let’s not live our lives functioning as Christian atheists who have a framework of cultural belief with no room or need for God to show up as God.
Which does Jesus intend—a blessing for the materially poor or the spiritually poor?
We are invited not to rejoice in our grief and loss in this life but to transform our thinking around what it means to have a full, thriving life in the midst of our suffering.
I like routine, and I like many “normal” things. I am a creature of habit. So, I am not going to talk about how churches need to be spontaneous and constantly “shake things up.” This piece examines weird religion in America and what it means for faith.
