Recent Issues

Let’s Talk

When we create the environment for hospitality and a space for conversation, the Lord will save people.

How to Overcome Betrayal Trauma in Ministry

With their friends’ departures, pastors have had to recalibrate the very real cost of spiritual intimacy in doing life together.

Temple Baptist Church: Let’s Go Serve

This growing Mississippi church cares for those with disabilities, people in their community, and ministries around the world.

Taking Off the Cape: Your Leadership Superpower Might Be Your Biggest Leadership Problem

Wise leaders don’t waste a crisis—they use it to help their people become the very best versions of themselves.

Heather Matthews: Beyond #MeToo

If people outside the church saw Christians empowering and advocating for women and fighting against sexism, that the gospel might actually be good news, especially for women outside the church.

Simplify Evangelism

The first mission field to which God calls every Christian is our neighborhood.

The Call of the Road: Gathering of Nomads

“We’re the mobile doctors, if you will, trying to go find them and bring healing and reconciliation back to Jesus.” —Shane Boyd

Ed Stetzer: The Power of Small

Small churches present opportunities for community and care that larger churches must work harder to cultivate.

Preaching What You Practice

It’s hard to lead an evangelistic movement in your place of ministry when reaching out to the lost is something you tend to avoid.

Friction to Fruitfulness

Church culture and polity had excluded aggressive disciple making and the idea of local churches planting churches.

Get S.M.A.R.T.E.R. About AI

Involving the congregation in decisions related to AI implementation is crucial to foster a sense of ownership.