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When Speaking Truth in Love Isn’t Easy

Never deliver a difficult message fueled by emotion. Preparation, not emotion, is what will strengthen your courage and help you realize positive and productive results.

Lebanon Baptist Church: A Sweet Way to Serve

Churches seem to have an expectation that people need to come to us. We need to change that paradigm.

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.

How Should Christians Respond to Culture?

Throughout the years, many have turned to H. Richard Niebuhr, who classically outlined the various responses that could be made in light of the...

How Christians Can Live Countercultural Lives in This World

The Scriptures are clear that as believers we are to be different. “Dear friends, you are foreigners and strangers on this earth.” —1 Peter 2:11 Pretty...

Dissecting The Roman Culture Jesus Came Into

Conspirata is a sequel to Robert Harris’ novel Imperium, which chronicles the rise of Cicero in ancient Rome. Harris is a great novelist, and...

Declaring God’s Victory in Times of Uncertainty

One of the most important tasks before us as leaders is declaring the certainty of God’s future in the face of the multiple crisis...

What’s Next for the Church?

You can shut the building, but you can't stop the church.

12 Encouraging Bible Verses for Leaders

The Psalmist said, “I have hidden your word in my heart so I might not sin against you.” God’s Word can be a protection...

Ministry Pivot: Worship Experience

As this season of COVID-19 has extended, most states here in the U.S. are doing some level of reopening. Most countries in the world...

The Accuser and Our Enslavement to the Law

The contention of this series of articles is that the Bible is set in the land of wild things. That is, the Bible is...