Repurposing Your Church Space for Community
The one thing a faltering church typically has is space: empty classrooms, parking lots, education buildings, or offices. Learn how your local church can leverage that church space for community needs.
Books
Arriving Home: God’s Glory In Small Lives
How do we get so caught up in believing this journey is all about us? The pressures off, friend; all the glory belongs to Christ. Discover God's glory in small lives.
More Than You Were Meant to Carry: Understanding Emotional Baggage
The antidote to pride is still humility, but a kind of humility thats different from what were used to. We typically think of humility as thinking lowly of oneself, and we dont struggle to think lowly of ourselves when carrying emotional baggage.
Change Your Church’s Scorecard Effectiveness
The way the world measures church scorecard effectiveness must not become the way the church does. The scorecard that the church has used for decades has become broken.
The Bible and the Civil Rights Movement
Many scholars describe the civil rights movement as a political movement with religious dressinguseful for the movements purposes but not central to the message. But the work of historian David L. Chappell, based on testimonies by civil rights activists and leaders, contradicts this. Their accounts indicate that it was, for them, primarily a religious event, showing the profound influence of the Bible on the civil rights movement.
God Is Not Limited by Our Lack of Provision
When churches lack resources, it's easy to feel discouraged, but God's provision in lack can bring revitalization.
How Do You Prepare to Share Jesus?
Prepare your heart by preparing your mind, body and soul. Read the Word, remember the Word, recite the Word, and live out the Word to effectively prepare to share Jesus.
Suffer Differently
Hope—the future state of time that our minds long to occupy—must begin with a relationally grounded, material experience with Jesus mediated through the Spirit, the Scriptures, and, often most powerfully, his body.
Lessons From Two Sisters On Responsiveness
Refrain from allowing the distractions of ministry to overwhelm your sense of servanthood by sometimes being served by others, learning lessons from sisters responsiveness.
The Power of 2G (Gratitude & Generosity)
The next time your heart struggles to recognize Gods gifts in your life, take a moment to consider three areas of Gods generosity: relational, physical, and spiritual. This power comes from gratitude and generosity.
