Recent Issues

Stir Revival in Your Community

Download a free kit that includes Christmas downloads from our partners, including The Chosen, to help your church plan a powerful, compelling Christmas service.

Food for Thought

Shepherding the church has been and always will be theological at root.

Derwin Gray: Choose Growth

Growing as a leader is not optional—it’s your responsibility. It’s your yes to the call God placed on your life.

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.”

Jon Acuff: Don’t Overthink It — Part 1

“As someone who felt that he buried his talents for a long time, I now go out of my way to help other people grab a shovel.”

What I Am Learning

“I believe we will look back at these days and see this season as one of the most critical in God’s kingdom influence growing in our country and world.” —Dean Fulks

Myron Pierce: Hope Multiplier

“We have to hone in on some of these disciplines that can be helpful to engage people, advance the kingdom and multiply churches.”

Is Your Church an Oak or a Petunia?

Not long ago, I compared the list of growing, influential churches in the United States over a timespan of just under half a century (46 years).

A Snapshot of the Coming Kingdom

America is becoming increasingly more representative of this vision as it becomes more ethnically diverse. So, how is this multiracial reality shaping the planting of new churches?

Jason Strand: Stepping Into and Leading a Whirlwind—Part 1

“We really focus on reaching people who are far from God. That is our mission, that is the heartbeat of our church.”