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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.

Your Weakness Is an Opportunity

For us Christians? Weakness is something to be rejoiced in. Our physical ailments? Our shifting emotions? Our penchant toward anxiety? These are all opportunities for us to rejoice.

10 Gifts Every Leader Should Give Their Team

How to empower your team to succeed

God Knows Exactly What Suffering He’s Called Each of Us to Endure

We should thank God He knows exactly what suffering and death He’s called each of us to endure.

Building Relationships With the Lost

Yes, let’s dine with the sinners and gladly be accused, like Jesus, of being “a friend of sinners.” But let’s never mistake this for condoning sin.

God Builds His Church Through Ordinary People

The flawed followers who changed the world.

A Life of Single-Minded Passion

I’ve long observed that the natural flow of the human heart is toward itself, rather than toward others. At least I know that it works that way with mine.

Trust Your Team When You’re Away

We usually view unplugging as restorative for ourselves, which is true. But if you lead people in your church—and if you are reading this it is probably true with staff or volunteers—then you need to unplug for their sake as well.

How Christ’s Victory Shapes Our Lives Today

His power and presence are at work in us.