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How Can We Avoid ‘Believing’ the Bible While Denying What It Actually Says?

We need to learn, and teach other people, not just to read the Bible but also how to interpret it, so they don’t end up being Bible-believing heretics or Jesus-followers who follow a Jesus different than the real Jesus of the Bible and history.

Is Gen Z Coming Back to Church?

When people born between 1997 and 2007 go to church, they attend, on average, about 23 services per year.

The Narrow Path for the Long Haul

The benefits of having faith stretch far beyond a spiritual checkbox. They seep into how I handle stress, find hope, and relate to others.

Arianna Molloy: When Calling Consumes

When burnout happens from a calling, it’s not simply, "I don’t like what I am doing anymore," which is a terrible problem. It’s, "I don’t know who I am anymore."

God Is at Work in Your Life, Even When You Can’t See It

Sometimes we need the reminder that God can do what is humanly impossible, and that He knows what is eternally best in ways we cannot.

Patrick Miller and Keith Simon: Outside Influence

The church has thrived throughout history and around the world when we don’t have power.

Relational Unity or Isolation?

The horizontal dimension of the cross symbolizes the other aspect of community that the cross offers—that we can be reconciled not only to God, but also to each other, and be brought together to form one body.

Decades of Waiting

If you’re waiting for God to answer a prayer, too, I trust he is teaching you something in your meantime.

Set Up for Success

If you want to see sustained growth you must build an intentional long-term leadership culture in your church or ministry.

What If You Only Had One Week to Live?

This is not morbid; it is just facing head-on what Scripture says—that our days are numbered.

Hosanna Wong: The Witness of Withness

We need to know the words and ways of God, but we also have to know the words and ways of the people around us. What are their real questions? God has real answers to people’s real questions.