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Brandon O’Brien’s Top Books on Small Church Ministry

Rather than being a subcategory of American ministry, the small church is the norm. If you take a longer and broader view, most churches throughout history and in most parts of the world are and always have been small.

Megan Fate Marshman: Everyday Grace

While influence tends to want to go upwards and grow to the right, I am fighting to go down to the left, and it takes a lot of intentionality.

What Does It Mean That We’ll Still Be Finite in Heaven?

The promise of Heaven is not that we will become infinite—that would be to become inhuman. It’s that we’ll be far better finite humans than we have ever been.

The Viral Revival

York Moore, who has the benefit of observing decades of evangelistic outreach, is equally bullish about the avenue TikTok has opened for the gospel. He says that we could be seeing the greatest evangelistic opportunity in American history.

Sam Chan: Is Christianity in Crisis?

Secularism has said that if we had more education, more science and better government, we’d have a good life. But the COVID pandemic showed us that science alone wasn’t enough to guarantee a good life. The War in Ukraine has shown us that education and good government aren’t enough either. As Sayers says, “It’s as if the tide of the gospel has gone so far out that the sheer weight of the gospel is going to come rushing back in.” This is not a threat to the gospel, but an opportunity. There is a vacuum out there that longs to be filled.

How to Maximize the Benefits of a Short-Term Mission Trip

Making sure your trip is a meaningful one

Answering Truthfully

We never graduate to be above a trial. They will always come on this side of heaven. But we can be better prepared to walk through them if we are willing to listen to God in the middle of them. God used my getting sick for a few days to teach me to be honest with myself — how am I really?

Resisting the Urge

Our inherent personality traits, emotional makeup, and “nature”are so strong, that as the parable states – even when it hurts us, we still can’t help it.

Are We Conforming to Christ or Culture?

We must always ask ourselves where Babylon today is asking us to conform.

What Is Your Church Doing to Help Children in Need?

The church is not designed to be a shield protecting the Christian bubble of safety. Rather, the church is a vehicle engineered by God to send people into the darkest corners of the neighborhood.

How to Overcome the Great Commission Gap

Discipleship will always lead the people of God outward on the mission Jesus is on.