Recent Issues

Refugee Church Finds a New Home in Texas

“This was a natural extension of who we have always been." -Pastor Darin wood

What Message Are You Sending Visitors?

By immediately communicating, ‘You are welcome here,’ you are answering guests’ big question: Should I be here?

The Avenue Fights Hunger Through Partnerships

Sourcing and obtaining enough food to meet the demand proved difficult. And often, the church found itself with an abundance of donated expired food.

Spiritual Backstories

Churches can be places where followers of Christ carefully listen to and pray through people’s life stories with empathy, extending the kind of care and grace that Jesus showed everyone, regardless of their backstory.

Craft a Vision for Church Planting

In a culture awash in loneliness and isolation, the prospect of meaningful, kingdom-centered relationships centered on mission is a powerful vision.

A Closer Walk

When we are growing in faith, we hold the hand of our risen Lord. As we do this, we go where he goes. We feel what he feels. We do what he does.

Bryan C. Loritts: Overcoming Ethnic Disunity

The church started out multiethnic. The apostle Paul didn’t start two separate churches, one for the Jews and one for the Gentiles.

The Pursuit of Virtue

Character is not so much what I do when no one is looking as it is what we do for others in their presence.

4 Mirror-Image Mistakes

Jesus wants us to serve and rejoice more in what he has done for us than in what we do for him.

Never Stop Learning

It doesn’t matter what name is on the side of the building as long as Jesus is being taken to the people.

A Return to Making Disciples

It’s time for all of us who love and follow Jesus to get back to what he saved and called us to be: disciples of Jesus who make disciples of Jesus.