As I watch my daughters grow in their relationship with Christ and start to discover their gifts as empowered by the Father, I am worried.
All in Church
Simple Children’s Ministry: Thinking Intergenerationally
When children and adults spend time together in worship and fellowship, we get to know each other, learn from each other, and grow together.
Mission Evidences from the Field: What Do Healthy Growing Churches Look Like?
What are the characteristics of newly planted churches that are thriving?
Do This in Remembrance of Me
Sharing communion each week calls us back to the path we chose when we committed our lives to Jesus.
Preachers, It’s Not about You (But It Kind of Is…)
We must be careful about moving from “anyone can preach” to “it doesn’t matter who is in the pulpit.”
Why Every Church Should Read Jude
Seldom read, the book of Jude explores themes of grace and holiness, which are difficult for us to hold in the same hand.
Elders, Anointing, and Healing
Happy believers sing. Those in trouble pray. And those who are sick call the elders to anoint them with oil and pray for them.
Church according to Jesus
Many of Jesus’s most obvious teachings are ignored. His teaching on conflict in the church is straightforward, profound, bold, and … never really followed.
Atonement: A Call to Action for the Church
Our neglect of understanding the atonement or reducing it to a legal or financial transaction has weakened us.
Why Do We Need White Crayons? Identifying and Empowering the Often Overlooked
Our overlooked “broken” crayons truly did serve a purpose in the right hands.
Jesus Wept
In these two words exists a clear example from Jesus of what it looks like to truly and intentionally experience life with another person.
Simple Children’s Ministry: Two Precious Gifts
Both of these gifts, hope and belonging, can be offered by the smallest churches with minimal resources, and they can be packaged in a million different ways.
Reflections on Fifty Years of Ministry
I was one of those guys who, from his mid-teens, knew what he wanted to do and be—at least in general terms. I wanted to be a preacher.
What Is Mentoring?
At a basic level, there are three modes of mentoring: active, occasional, and passive.
Special Needs and the Church
We often buy into the belief (worldview) that to be human is to be increasingly independent. But Jesus says the very opposite.
Snapchat Prophets
Christian teenagers have a message from the Lord for the church, and they have truth bursting from their souls about morality that it would behoove the church to hear.
Resource Highlight: Journey: From Text to Congregation
The demands associated with preparing to teach and preach every seven days parallel the demands of moving irrigation pipe in the summer on our farm.
Let’s Get Ready to Rumble! (A Primer on How to Fight in Church)
If a church doesn’t learn how to fight, war is the inevitable and unenviable outcome.
Resource Highlight: Ministers’ Salary Survey in Real Time
This survey offers church leaders a sense of how other congregations are addressing things like base pay, housing allowances, paid leave, healthcare, and retirement.
Preaching and Spiritual Vitality
Preaching that emerges from prayer and from the context of the congregation’s own particular journey matters.