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.

Practice the Language of Christ

Every person we translate Jesus to has two options: to follow Him or stay where they are. We do our part in prayer and partnership with Jesus to practice the language of Christ.

Growing Relationships Rather Than Numbers

When a church focuses on the person as a whole and not the transactional relationship often, they see Christ in the person and not the person inside the local church, which begins to tare the veil of developing relationships to become pew warmers.

Suffering

What we see on earth is not Gods will. In the last couple years, the impact of sin has been significantly experienced at a worldwide level.

Coming Back From Decline to Church Spiritual Growth

You must focus not on what is missing but instead on what matters: the person in front of you and the community that needs your church to experience church spiritual growth from decline.

How to Develop Fervency and Compassion in Your Prayer Life

I needed divine help to motivate my prayer life. I discovered that we must first confess the following truth, as unflattering as it is: Lord, I confess that in and of myself, I do not really care about anybody but myself. Developing fervency and compassion in prayer requires acknowledging this self-centeredness.

National Back to Church Sunday: Free Resources and More

Add your church to the map of participating churches and get free digital resources from Outreach Inc., the parent company of Outreach magazine.

Pastoring Through Times of Loss

Often, when people face a significant loss, it shakes their faith, leading to spiritual dissonance where their beliefs about God are challenged by painful reality. Pastoring through spiritual dissonance requires understanding this unique challenge.

Making Sense of the Sermon on the Mount

If the Sermon on the Mount is part of the larger structure and progression in Matthews Gospel, then we cant make understanding the Sermon on the Mount about something other than what the rest of the book is about. Matthew is clearly not about a legalistic summons to earn your way into heaven.