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Why Leaders Lead With Prayer

Imagine attempting to lead without strength, without guidance, and without defense. Personally, I would consider it both terrifying and utterly futile.

Loving and Listening to Doubters

Over the past decade of setting tables where skeptics and churchgoers sit side by side, I’ve gathered a few hard-earned insights about the art of loving those who see the world differently.

5 Innovative Ministries Shaping the Future Church

The following ministry snapshots are just a few of the examples of innovative ministries that are working well. Whether you’re a pastor, church leader or an everyday disciple looking to reach your neighborhood, we hope their stories will inspire you to innovate in your own ways.

What Is Your Nineveh?

God may not be sending you overseas to reach extremists, but he may be sending you to reach the "unreachable" in your sphere of influence.

Christ and His Kingdom, Not Politics, Should Be the Central Fixture of Our Focus

This year, we can choose where to fix our eyes. Instead of locking them on the short-term things we can see, we are called to turn our gaze, by faith, to what is eternal.

Are You Difficult to Follow?

Good leaders frequently evaluate to make sure the current pace doesn’t leave someone behind.

9 Things Strategic Leaders Do

There is a massive difference between having a strategy and thinking strategically.

How Did Jesus Act Toward Sinners?

In a very real sense, Jesus shows overwhelming, astonishing mercy and undeserved grace to sinners, and yet Jesus sends the self-righteous scurrying off like dogs with tails caught between their legs.

Multisite Campus Handbook and Best Practices

The one church-multiple locations concept has seen many expressions throughout church history as church leaders adapted to changing cultural realities and leveraged technological advances.

Take Your Faith to Work

How to encourage a missional mindset for everyone, everywhere, all the time.

What’s Preventing Your Personal Growth?

One of the true perils of leading church ministry is being so invested in the growth of others that your personal growth goes unattended to.