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.

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.

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.