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You Can’t (and Shouldn’t) Please Everyone

Learning to balance the natural tension of loving and caring for people, but not allowing someone to leverage their personal agenda or hijack the vision of your church is part of the leader’s responsibility.

How to Find Your Purpose in Life

Here are three ways to discover what God's will is for this season of your life.

An Atheist’s Take on the Decline of Christianity

Strange that a famed atheist bemoans the loss of what Christianity has brought to culture, and an agnostic the loss of what Christianity brought to the dynamics of human community.

7 Ways This Year Can Be Better Than Last Year

God’s mercies are new every morning, and great is His faithfulness (Lam 3:22-23). That means each day is a new day and each year is a new year. His mercies await you this day, and He will be faithful to you.

Beth Moore: A Lifelong Learning—Part 1

No matter what’s going on in the world, I can make it if the Lord is loud to me—his Word is really alive and jumping off the page into the marrow of my bones.

3 Reasons College Towns Are Ideal for Church Plants

Spiritual awakenings often happen on or near university campuses.

Considering New Year’s Resolutions for Your Church?

We make resolutions because we want to bring change to bear on our circumstances. We want to improve ourselves and our quality of life. And the top resolutions, for most people, tend to revolve around the same three poles: money, health and family.

Suffering Is About Knowing Jesus Better

I saw firsthand what God did in Nanci though her suffering, and I know what He has done in me through mine.

The Key to Loving People Who Hate You

How to obey one of Jesus' most difficult commands

How Your Pressure Shapes Your Leadership

Chronic stress leaves the stress hormone, cortisol, in your body and brain for extended periods of time (as well as imbalancing brain chemicals called neurotransmitters).

When Is it Okay to Tug at Heartstrings?

I believe the Holy Spirit often sovereignly uses these emotions (conviction of sin, desperation for hope, grief from a loss, etc.) to prepare the lost for the good news of the Gospel of Jesus Christ.