Books

Avoid the ‘Fixing Trap’

Jesus didn’t come to fix us from afar. He came to walk with us.

How the Church Can Take the Lead in Suicide Prevention

"The church is for the broken. A church without the broken is a broken church."

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.

Outreach Resources of the Year: Counseling and Relationships

Written by a physician, The Deepest Place reverberates with heartfelt compassion, clinical understanding and studied, biblical wisdom that will benefit pastors and other ministry leaders involved in counseling.

The Lovingkindness of God

Over and over again, the lovingkindness of God is extolled as the reason why he provides salvation for his people. Not that sinners deserve to be saved, but God extends his own heart to them and sets his love upon them.

Delivering Hope: Fostering Hope ministry

When visitors do decide to check out a Sunday service, Kelley says, they’re often happy to find a teaching team made up of four Hope pastors, plus two others from different churches, who rotate Sundays, and the church’s emphasis on the Fostering Hope ministry shaping its outreach.

Renovate by Innovating

It sounds so simple, but it will take grit to overcome self-doubt and strategic decline to push forward with an innovative spirit to reach the community and bless them as the hands and feet of Christ.

A Beloved Love

What makes us come together as the people of God and remain the people of God is what we have been given from God.

Go to the Source: Understanding Your Audience

The world is rapidly changing all around us. Focusing on understanding your audience helps us engage the present generation.

Don’t Waste Your Season

We cannot rush the appearance of fruit to make ourselves feel or look better. don't waste your season and remember that growth happens in every season.

The Right People at the Right Time

The congregation has welcomed changes as different demographics join, embodying the Right people at the right time dynamic that keeps the church growing.