The Church in 2011
When I see the number 2011, I think of some distant future. But 2011 is less than five years away, and significant demographic trends...
One Church, Two Locations
When my consulting firm, the Rainer Group, conducts its annual client survey, we attempt to discern trends and patterns that may indicate the future...
Investing in the Faith of the Future
She’s perky, pretty and precocious. She’s smart and full of life. And best of all, she calls me “Boppa.”
I make a living by stringing...
Have You Met the Real Jesus?
She was brought up Catholic, but by the age of 18 had abandoned her belief in God. She married a fervent atheist and became...
John MacArthur on Outreach
I believe that the Church has never made a greater effort at evangelism, but our current weakness is the absence of a strong theological...
Get Into the Stream: An Interview with Rick Rusaw
As senior minister of LifeBridge Christian Church in Longmont, Colo., Rick Rusaw leads his congregation of 3,000 toward community relevance. Under his creative leadership,...
Anne Graham Lotz on Outreach
An international Bible teacher and daughter of evangelist Billy Graham, Anne Graham Lotz has spoken in arenas, prison cells, stadiums, sanctuaries and seminaries. In...
Arbiter for the Poor: Rich Stearns and World Vision
After 25 years as a top executive in the corporate world, in 1998 Rich Stearns traded business trips to Milan and $1,000 dinners for...
A City Redeemed
Can my city be saved? More than ever before, pastors and ministry leaders are asking that question. Read how networks of churches and ministries...
Dr. David Platt: A Man of His Word
The second-youngest pastor on our Fastest-Growing Churches list, 29-year-old Dr. David Platt arrived at his first pastorate, 4,500-member The Church at Brook Hills (No....
God Came Down: An Interview with Rebecca Manley Pippert
Q: You’ve been known to say that looking at the life of Jesus is a “shortcut to evangelism.” What do you mean by that?In...
The Dish on Satellite Outreach
Today’s churches are serving up technology to reach targeted audiences.
Seeing, Hearing, Connecting: Multimedia in the Church
The lights fade in the sanctuary of Point of Grace Church, and the 12-by-9-foot video screen comes aflame with images from a high-powered projector...
Calling All Kids: Outreach Especially for Children
Is your church missing what George Barna calls the “greatest evangelistic window available?“Alert:Of the estimated 160 million Christians in America today, 70 percent of...
‘Wondered’ Into Someone's Heart Today?
In April 2003, National Public Radio aired a news story about a standoff between an angry mob of Iraqi Shiites and a heavily armored...
Welcome to PornSunday
The crowd is diverse on a recent Sunday morning at The People’s Church in Franklin, Tenn., full of unfamiliar faces not usually part of...
The Coming Multi-Site Church Revolution
On Sunday morning at Seacoast Church in Charleston, S.C. (seacoastchurch.org), a worship band launches into a hard-driving chorus while a video projects lyrics and...
Hope Again: Marriage Ministry
Kimberly Kirkland’s husband arrived home from work one evening in 1999 and announced, “I hate my life. I hate my wife. I hate my...
The Power of Alpha
An Alpha course brought 55-year-old Jim Geiger to church for the first time in years. He arrived at St. Peter’s Episcopal Church in Louisville,...
Small Church – Big Adventure
When Pattie Sewell, pastor of Green Ridge Presbyterian Church in Roanoke, Va. (greenridgepres.org), stopped one Sunday morning to talk to neighborhood children at their...
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The Children of Catholic Priests Just Want to Be Acknowledged
The Vatican has confirmed it has a set of internal guidelines for what a Catholic priest should do if he were to father a child. But despite the fact that the church is aware that some of its priests are having children, its leaders have been slow to acknowledge this problem publicly.
New Podcasts
Erwin McManus: Your Theology Won’t Save You From Lack of Peace
“We have to accept the fact that peace isn’t magic, and you can love Jesus and still be struggling profoundly with inner peace," Erwin McManus says.
