Recent Issues

Refugee Church Finds a New Home in Texas

“This was a natural extension of who we have always been." -Pastor Darin wood

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.

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.

Jon Acuff: Don’t Overthink It — Part 2

“If you want a kind 16-year-old, then teach a six-year-old kindness, and then give them 10 years to practice.”