Recent Issues

David Kinnaman: Start the Conversation

Church leaders must recognize that what feels hidden is actually hurting people, and that discipleship includes helping people break free from destructive patterns.

Hills Church: New Name, Same Mission

Hills Church has grown, in part, due to Marksman—a strategy for men focused on reaching and discipling other men that includes a 6-week Bible study boot camp.

Mike Housholder: The Wind of the Spirit

“Churches are called to make their cities better. The best way to do that is to genuinely and authentically love our neighbors. If there are needs in our community, we want to get involved.” - Pastor Mike Housholder

Unlocking Hearts

Over time the church has begun to hold retreats for men’s, women’s and youth ministry—about eight different retreats a year, and each retreat brings the church a new wave of fresh contacts.

A Better Conversation

Unless we plan on uprooting the Spirit from our lives, we’d better plan on being gentle, loving, kind, and patient, and letting the political chips fall where they may.

Am I Cut Out for This?

When leaders build internal legitimacy, their leadership doesn’t rest on people’s opinions, but on their sense of calling from God.

Take It to the House

You want to minimize multiplication? Return to super centralization.

Lee Strobel: Asking the Real Questions

Apologetics is just knocking down some of the barriers. It’s the relationship that God uses to bring people to faith.

Embrace the Chaos

Leadership that does not shy away from chaos, but embraces it, may well drive the change we need.

Doing More Together

The days when a network could simply say it exists to train church planters are over.

A Long Walk to Jesus

Someone who had been family by blood became family through the blood of the Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world.