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How to Overcome Betrayal Trauma in Ministry

With their friends’ departures, pastors have had to recalibrate the very real cost of spiritual intimacy in doing life together.

Ryan Kwon: Nothing to Prove

“We’re so accustomed to the church being a noun. I want our bias to be action-oriented, and a movement that goes outward.”

The Rise of the Entrepreneurial Church: How Churches Can Fund Ministry Beyond Tithes

Entrepreneurial church models allow churches to step outside the walls of Sunday services and meet people where they live, work and gather. They open doors to relationships that lead to discipleship. They create spaces for people who might never set foot in a sanctuary to encounter the love of Christ.

Working Out the Peace of God in Our Lives

Our anxiety is an opportunity for God to give us his peace.

Why We Need to Be Patient With Church Change

Many changes take longer than we might like.

Does God Really Need Us?

How do we fit into God's plan?

7 Things Church Experts Won’t Tell You

Knowing what they aren’t going to tell you may help you better implement their suggestions.

10 Ways to Be More Like Jesus

The ways that Jesus stood out from the rank and file of his day

3 Tools to Encourage Bible Engagement During COVID-19

Bible reading is down during the pandemic. Here are ways to encourage it.

In Search of Empathy

How my struggles with infertility and miscarriages helped me better understand the experiences of those who deal with racism

Scot McKnight: A Church Culture of Goodness

What churches need is goodness.