Recent Issues

Food for Thought

Shepherding the church has been and always will be theological at root.

Derwin Gray: Choose Growth

Growing as a leader is not optional—it’s your responsibility. It’s your yes to the call God placed on your life.

Mountain Life Church: Christmas Blessings

Mountain Life Church purchased Christmas trees from a local nursery at cost and organized a Christmas tree lot on church grounds.

Leadership GRIT

You are never stronger than when you are on your knees in weakness.

Dave Ferguson: Ask the Right Question

Reproducing churches replace “grow” with “multiply” because they want to see the kingdom expand from Jerusalem to the ends of the earth.

A Peaceful Presence

Conflicted times can become sacred moments when believers in Jesus stand out in a good way.

Matt Chandler: Victory Is Assured

Because of Jesus we can endure anything.

Karl Vaters: De-Size the Church

If we are simply getting bigger churches, that’s not church growth; that’s Christian consolidation.

Keep It Simple: Don’t Waste Your Efforts on the Disinterested

If we can agree that our world has drastically changed over the last 70 years, then why are our ministries still following best practices that are more than 70 years old?

Ed Stetzer: A Higher Allegiance

There is no promise that this American experiment will last forever. Only the kingdom of God will last forever.

Rob Hoskins: Communities of Hope

If we are to be people rooted in Christ, we must embrace what it means to be a hopeful community where faith thrives and truth prevails.