Recent Issues

Calvary Church of Naperville: Calling All Champions

The church has added Champions Nursery, which serves special needs children from birth to 4 years old in a sensory-friendly environment.

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.

Alan Briggs: Is Bigger Actually Better?

A larger church can have a bigger impact, but that isn’t a given. So, is having a larger church really better?

A Firm Foundation

Without a clear vision, churches are either rooted in their past, focused only on immediate needs or chasing after some shiny innovation.

Beyond Numerical Growth

Thriving evangelistic churches simplify what it looks like to live on mission.

Tell Me How You *Really* Feel

You hear it all the time, and a simple Google search will produce countless articles on it: The most important leadership trait is empathy.

To America With Love: Why U.S. Christianity’s Resurgence Will Come From Immigrants

The more global we are, the more globally connected, relevant and needed we will be.

Ashley Wooldridge: Radical Generosity

When you get radically generous, it invites the blessing of God in a supernatural way.

Michelle Sanchez: Chosen by God

It is because partnership is God’s chosen way that we now have the privilege of becoming “God’s fellow workers” (1 Cor. 3:9).

Reach a Whole Region

Local networks were how the early church spread outward. To see the same spread and gospel saturation of Christianity today, planters must think beyond their own church plants and imagine networks of churches.