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Why Leaders Lead With Prayer

Imagine attempting to lead without strength, without guidance, and without defense. Personally, I would consider it both terrifying and utterly futile.

Loving and Listening to Doubters

Over the past decade of setting tables where skeptics and churchgoers sit side by side, I’ve gathered a few hard-earned insights about the art of loving those who see the world differently.

5 Innovative Ministries Shaping the Future Church

The following ministry snapshots are just a few of the examples of innovative ministries that are working well. Whether you’re a pastor, church leader or an everyday disciple looking to reach your neighborhood, we hope their stories will inspire you to innovate in your own ways.

No Place for Sin in Heaven

The old order will have once and for all passed away, and God will replace it with a new order—one that is fundamentally transformed.

12 Tips for Preaching Online

Be mindful as you prepare messages that you are speaking to an audience that encompasses more than those in the room with you.

3 Ways to Be Frustrated With Your Church

As consumers, we expect a certain degree of service and preferential treatment in exchange for our loyalty. We expect our needs and desires to be catered to.

Preacher, Don’t Blow It During the Invitation

What is the invitation I’m referring to? The Gospel invitation! It’s the moment when a preacher invites unbelievers to believe and the lost to be saved.

Truth Is Key for the Future of Our Faith

A commitment to unvarnished truth as a permanent value would protect a culture from corruption and other forces of power.

7 Questions to Evaluate Your Worship Service

How to know if your gathering accomplished what it was meant to accomplish

Homesick for Heaven

Nothing is more often misdiagnosed than our homesickness for Heaven.

Ed Stetzer: The Power of Small

Small churches present opportunities for community and care that larger churches must work harder to cultivate.