Recent Issues

The Future of Church Security

A church that embraces a unified security platform can dramatically enhance its ability to prevent, detect and respond to threats.

Glad You’re Here

Church people serve their community with no strings attached, but the heartfelt prayer of every volunteer is for the people they serve to connect with both their Lord and their church.

David Kinnaman: Deconstruction Demystified

Deconstruction may not be about finding reasons to leave, but rather seeking guidance for a deeper stage of faith.

Alan Briggs: The Need to Return

It’s time to exit the survival mode and reconnect.

Ed Stetzer: A Look in the Mirror

The North American church needs to learn from our global brothers and sisters how to engage a culture unfamiliar with and even perhaps hostile to the gospel.

Shifting Into Overdrive

Change your role from hero to hero maker, and you immediately multiply your capacity to change the world.

Ruth Haley Barton: Saved by Rest

God, who knows us best, has given us the Sabbath as a gift.

The Church and the Creative Soul

It is important to drink from deep wells, expanding your own tastes and horizons of thought and emotion.

Remembering Our Legacy

While we all work, serve and minister in different ways, the longer we do this important kingdom work, the more we realize that some of the teachings and practices of old are still applicable now and will be in the future.

Michelle Sanchez: A New Kind of Discipleship

Dismantling racism is a matter of discipleship.

Finding the Strength to Stay

In today’s current ministry climate, the stress can feel as if it is ushering us out the church door. You may be familiar with the feeling—a hidden place where walking away feels not just like an option but the preferred option.