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How to Leverage Existing Ministries for Outreach

“You could launch new outreach ministries without removing any existing ministries, increasing your budget or adding staff.”

One Church’s Story of Transformation

We waited as each church went through the 30-day jumpstart. Then we heard the stories.

Charlie Dates: The Indestructible Power of the Gospel

Jesus lived 33 years, walking on water as it recognized its creator King and became a solid. He turned water into wine. He welcomed sinners and the marginalized into his company. And then, he died—that is, until death died. Until sin apologized. Until the earth rocked and reeled like a drunken man. Until the sun could no longer stand seeing its own creator crucified to a tree, so it pulled the shade across the noonday. They laid him in a borrowed tomb, but early Sunday morning, before the sun got up, the Son pulled one foot out of eternity, stepped back into time, and said, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me” (Matt. 28:18).

Desperate for the Presence of God

Longing to know him ever more deeply

Avoid These Pitfalls When Discussing Your Pastor’s Compensation

Pastoral pay is important. While it isn’t always a make-or-break factor in a healthy relationship between a pastor and his church’s governing boards, it is nevertheless an important one.

The Power of Small

Reimagining the Advantages of a Small Church

Why Is it Hard for Me to Share Jesus?

We create opportunities by initiating conversations, listening closely to others, and taking those conversations clearly and concisely to the gospel.

The Viral Revival

York Moore, who has the benefit of observing decades of evangelistic outreach, is equally bullish about the avenue TikTok has opened for the gospel. He says that we could be seeing the greatest evangelistic opportunity in American history.

Sam Chan: Is Christianity in Crisis?

Secularism has said that if we had more education, more science and better government, we’d have a good life. But the COVID pandemic showed us that science alone wasn’t enough to guarantee a good life. The War in Ukraine has shown us that education and good government aren’t enough either. As Sayers says, “It’s as if the tide of the gospel has gone so far out that the sheer weight of the gospel is going to come rushing back in.” This is not a threat to the gospel, but an opportunity. There is a vacuum out there that longs to be filled.

How to Maximize the Benefits of a Short-Term Mission Trip

Making sure your trip is a meaningful one

Answering Truthfully

We never graduate to be above a trial. They will always come on this side of heaven. But we can be better prepared to walk through them if we are willing to listen to God in the middle of them. God used my getting sick for a few days to teach me to be honest with myself — how am I really?