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David Kinnaman: Start the Conversation

Church leaders must recognize that what feels hidden is actually hurting people, and that discipleship includes helping people break free from destructive patterns.

Avoid These 10 Awful Messages to Visitors

There’s no joy in sharing these stories, but there’s clarity. These experiences shine a spotlight on what must change if we truly want to be welcoming communities of grace.

The Future of Church Outreach: 3 Key Trends We Must Engage

EDITORIAL Leading Mission | Andy Cook Standing on the steps of the Wheaton College Billy Graham Hall in 1980, Graham asked his audience a pivotal question: How...

How to Overcome the Great Commission Gap

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

How to Create an Awesome Internship Program

Best practices for training up the next generation of church leaders

We Are Thirsty for News of Heaven

I pray your heart will testify more and more that you are a citizen of another world, of a better country, with a glorious King. And I pray you will joyfully cling to His promises that He will return to restore and remake a ruined Earth.

Are You Promoting This Resource to Youth?

For believers in Jesus—and for everyone on the planet, actually—the answers we search for reside in one place. It’s not in our own minds, in the opinions of others, or in a search engine, but in the timeless truth of God’s Word.

Do the Happiest People in the World Want the Gospel?

Spreading the gospel in Nordic countries where people think they're already happy

10 Signs of Church Wellness

Whenever God’s people do the hard thing in the Lord’s way–when we love the unlovely, when we forgive our attackers, when we do good things to our enemy, when we soldier on in the face of adversity, when we maintain our joy in the midst of disaster and retaliate with love–twelve things begin to happen from that moment.

Ed Stetzer: A New Church-Planting Era

When pastors demonstrate a teachable heart, they hit on the central virtue of their calling.

3 Pivotal Questions to Ask When Considering a Church Merger

How to know if your churches are compatible