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.

Silenced: What I Learned About Leadership When I Lost My Voice

We have the One who can patiently lead us forward, restoring the damaged places, healing the broken pieces, giving us a new way to live.

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.