Pastors

From The Editor

Leadership

Within One, Many Many Many ...

One church, one journal, innumerable parts.

Marshall Shelley

Features

Leadership

The Mars and Venus Church Staff

A field guide to navigating gender sensitivities.

Margot Starbuck

Discipleship

Leading in Prayer

Max Lucado talks about how good prayers shake the heavens and shape community.

Interview by Drew Dyck

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Discipleship

It Takes a Church

Adopting five foster children is impossible unless you have the right support.

Jason Johansen

Discipleship |Outreach

Serving Immigrants Saved Our Church

How welcoming in the stranger revived a declining congregation.

Michael Lynch

Culture

Leadership|Outreach

Reaching Churchless America

Examining the unchurched

David Kinnaman

Leadership|Outreach

When Smaller Is Better

Effective small church ministry starts with a clearer view of success.

Interview with Karl Vaters

Practices

Leadership

Leadership Shorts

Summaries of books you need to know.

Discipleship |Leadership

Shoot a Two-Minute Message

An easy way to connect with your audience

Jonathan Sprowl

Discipleship |Leadership|Outreach

Fix Cars For Single Moms

Serve your community through basic car maintanence

Jonathan Sprowl

Discipleship |Leadership|Outreach

Host "Midnight Basketball"

Give kids a safe place to play.

Jonathan Sprowl

Leadership|Outreach

Split The Tithe

Give half to the church and half to missions.

Jonathan Sprowl

Leadership|Outreach

Hold a "Gas Buy Down"

Give the gift of cheaper gas.

Jonathan Sprowl

Discipleship |Leadership

Host a Red Carpet Event For Special Needs People

Give them the "Best Night Ever."

Discipleship |Preaching

Finding Time for Study

7 tips to make the most of your time

H. B. Charles, Jr.

Soul

Discipleship

Getting to 'Aha'

Kyle Idleman discusses three phases of transformation.

Interview by Drew Dyck

Discipleship

High Anxiety

Leaders have lots of reasons to worry … and one overriding reason not to.

Amy Simpson

Outreach
A More Beautiful Bible
And other items of interest from ministry and culture.
Compiled by Paul Pastor
Discipleship |Leadership
Pastor, Church, & Law Volume 2
And more helpful tools from Christianity Today
PK Confidential
A review of 'The Pastor's Kid' by Barnabas Piper
Jason Brueckner
Leadership
Men and Women Working Together
And more helpful tools from Christianity Today
Leadership|Outreach
'Nones' Are Your Business
A review of 'The Rise of the Nones' by James Emery White
Kyle Rohane
Outreach
One Hamburger, Hold the Depression, Please
And other items of interest from ministry and culture.
Compiled by Paul Pastor



My Calling

From restaurant manager to pastor

Joel Johnson



Outreach

Make Room for Me

New research reveals what Millennials like—and don’t like—about churches, and what we can do to reach them.

Marian V. Liautaud



Discipleship |Leadership|Outreach

What to Do When Your Church is Declining

Merging with another church may be your only option, but handle with care.

James Rodgers



For the Love of Fierce Variety

Mark Buchanan



Discipleship |Leadership

Doing Community Behind Bars

Prison ministry demands really practical theology.

Larry Dixon

Cartoons

Cartoon

Be Yourself?

Cartoon

Male Bonding

Cartoon

Missed the Memo

Cartoon

Pastoral Oversight

Dan Pegoda

Cartoon

Sunday Morning Football

Cartoon

Disaster Training

Cartoon

First Pastor on the Moon

Dan Pegoda

Cartoon

Squirrelly Motives

Scott Masear

Cartoon

Chasing Rabbits

Dennis Fletcher

Cartoon

Facing Fears

Conan de Vries