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Is It Really Necessary to Memorize Scripture?

Memorizing a chapter is easier than memorizing 18 scattered verses because most chapters are a flowing story.

How to Identify and Handle a People Problem

You improve people problems by improving people.

E Pluribus Unum?

God delights in our diversity and calls us to pursue reconciliation wherever needed.

Rick and Randy Bezet: God’s Unlikely Call into Ministry — Part 2

“Fewer people treat the Word of God as inerrant. They see it as viewpoint, which means we have to do a better job of teaching the Word of God as truth.”—Randy Bezet

What Can the Church Learn about Suicide?

Yet within the Christian community, where openness and grace should flow the richest and deepest, where the masks are meant to come off and safety offered to all, owning depression is virtually taboo. There is an unwritten rule that people of faith shouldn’t be depressed.

The Counterintuitive Truth About Multisite Campuses

One overwhelming argument against a church having multiple campuses or congregations is “what happens to those campuses if the celebrity pastor dies or blows...

The Benefits and Challenges of Business as Mission

The world is changing rapidly. Globalization, the expansion of cities and the increase of the middle class have created new and different opportunities for...

When Church Members Cause Frustration

Perhaps it’s because the strained connections and harsh words feed into my own insecurities.  Or maybe it’s because there are so many more of the blessed times.

Rick and Randy Bezet: God’s Unlikely Call into Ministry — Part 1

“It’s been a time of such division. The church started getting angry at the world, and the world angry at the church, and then the church at the church.”—Rick Bezet

What Are the Benefits of Diversity Among Church Leaders?

In a church, the faces the congregation sees on the stage matter. If all the faces are the same race, gender, or age, they often assume that’s who’s welcome in that church.

What God Does in an Instant Far Outweighs What We Attempt in a Lifetime

What do you need God to do in your life? What problems are you facing? Have you been trying to do it all in your flesh, or are you remembering to depend on the Holy Spirit?