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.

How Women Rise

Am I willing to get uncomfortable, to be corrected, to make mistakes? If not, my rising is only for me, and not for all women.

How a Group’s Culture Affects Your Leadership

Excerpted from 'Big Results Leadership' (B&H Books)

The Small Church Value

Landon DeCrastos: In an age when so many pastors spend much of their time looking for the next new thing, it seemed foreign to encounter a ministry that didnt try to fix something that wasnt broken simply to put more rumps in the seats. There was something intensely spiritual about the experience of this small church value.

4 Easy Ways to Create Joyful Engagement

Jim Wilder and Marcus Warner: There are at least four practical ways leaders can create joyful engagement in the people they lead. We know we have succeeded in this task when we hear people say things like, I sure like this team and what we do. To build this kind of engagement we need to practice the four Ps.

The Model Minority Myth and the Church

Terence Lester argues that the church must actively oppose the model minority myth and other dehumanizing categorizations, emphasizing the marginalized identity of its own Savior.

Care for Your Soul: Prayer and Fasting

Excerpted from 'What Great Ministry Leaders Get Right' (Moody Publishers)

A Heart for Justice

Excerpted from 'When Thoughts and Prayers Aren’t Enough' (IVP)

Peyton Jones: Church Plantology

The Art and Science of Planting Churches (Zondervan)