Recent Issues

Honoring Veterans, National Brownie Day, and More

Consider these seasonal ideas for your church to be intentional in the community, with the church body, and in best practices.

Higher Learning: Reaching Young Ugandans in Their Schools

“If John Wesley could send out bands of young people to change the world, we can too." -Pastor Moses Kalanzi

The Block Church: See You at the Block

The spiritual dynamic of The Block Church changed dramatically when the leadership made the decision to raise up and develop an intercessors ministry.

What Is Your Personal Multiplication Capacity?

Fruit doesn’t last by focusing on self-perseveration, but by distributing itself in the soil around it, then dying to reproduce.

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.