Recent Issues

What Message Are You Sending Visitors?

By immediately communicating, ‘You are welcome here,’ you are answering guests’ big question: Should I be here?

The Avenue Fights Hunger Through Partnerships

Sourcing and obtaining enough food to meet the demand proved difficult. And often, the church found itself with an abundance of donated expired food.

Amy Orr Ewing: A ‘Quiet Revival’

Our congregations need to be equipped to meet the moment in the culture, so that they are ready to lead people to Jesus.

Ed Stetzer: The Church of 2030

The churches that ... continue to make seniors a priority may be more equipped to reach the changing population.

Beyond What You Think You Know

Spiritual leaders become Pharisees when they rely more on their current abilities than on their future capacity for spiritual and personal growth.

Christine Caine: Eyes on the Promise—Part 2

Like we see in the story of Moses and Joshua, leadership has the potential to either lead a generation into the promise or keep them out of it.

Christine Caine: Eyes on the Promise—Part 1

The blood of Jesus does not give you amnesia. It gives you a life beyond your past, but it doesn’t get rid of your past.

He Gets Us

There’s something unique about Jesus that is absolutely compelling, and if we can make him our story, then watch out.

Next-Level Church Planting

Every generation shapes the church for the generation to come, but today we may be at a particularly malleable hinge point.

Michelle Sanchez: Becoming Beloved Community

Jesus shed new light on what agape looks like by establishing himself as the standard for agape love. In the end, we will best build beloved community as we love just like Jesus loved us.

Sean Nemecek: Wholeness After Burnout

Teams that thrive tend to encourage one another seven to nine times more than they criticize.