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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.

Megan Fate Marshman: Everyday Grace

While influence tends to want to go upwards and grow to the right, I am fighting to go down to the left, and it takes a lot of intentionality.

What Does It Mean That We’ll Still Be Finite in Heaven?

The promise of Heaven is not that we will become infinite—that would be to become inhuman. It’s that we’ll be far better finite humans than we have ever been.

3 Reasons Networking Is Core to Church Planting

In the next five years at the current rate there will be over 13,000 churches who have a vision to do something that has movement-making potential—start a multiplying network.

Will Web 3.0 Change the Way We Do Church?

Web 3.0 is integration and immersion into real and virtual realms, emphasizing digital relationships that can be as impactful as physical ones.

Right-Sizing Our Expectations

When we start from a place of shared perspective and fervency, we can better refocus on our core mission: to show and share the Good News of Jesus with a world in need.

5 Ways to Think Higher and Live Bigger

Keep pursuing Jesus, thinking of his endurance against hostility, to avoid weariness and despair.

The Essential Keys to Effective Church Communications

How to hone your communication skills.

Guarding Your Heart and Mind Against Anxiety

The truth is God isn’t surprised by anything that happens to us in this world. When we feel anxious or worried, it can be helpful to remember that God is not surprised by our circumstances.

Reversing Pastoral Burnout

Now is the time to redouble efforts to help ministry leaders flourish in their roles, recovering from the trauma of recent years and preparing for the road ahead.

Why the Next Generation Needs the Book of Ecclesiastes

This is the generation that has been born with the internet, with no cords, with constant access to any and everything. And yet less and less wonder, and more and more cynicism.