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...
The American Church in Crisis
Attendance is down. The picture is bleak. New research reveals startling and sobering facts. What do they mean for you, your church and Christianity...
Common Size, Uncommon Impact
Thousands of small churches across the United States are changing the spiritual landscape around them in extraordinary ways. They’re thriving right where they’re at—not...
Cowboy Churches Wrangle Souls
Congregations like Texas’ no-frills Frontier Church offer a down-home approach to the Gospel In the famous words of cowboy legend Roy Rogers, “There are...
Starting Something: Some Advice
“If you build it, they will come.”
That’s what Andrew Sears and I believed. We were two urban ministers who loved tech and wanted to...
Church in the City
Although they are different New York City churches with very different audiences, Redeemer Presbyterian and Infinity Church are part of the same multiplication equation...
Cell Biology for the Church: Why Small Groups Don’t Multiply
Trouble-shoot Your Small Groups
Getting to Know Today’s Unchurched (part 2)
A few weeks ago, Mark and Julia saw a moving truck parked across the street from their house. The following day, they went to...
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Pastor Helps Rescue Girl: ‘God literally led us’ to Her
A pastor who helped to rescue an eight-year-old girl kidnapped in Fort Worth, Texas, on Saturday says that he is no hero, but that God did use him. Pastor Jeff King believes that, after several hours of searching, God led him and his friend to the hotel where the girl’s assailant was keeping her.
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Anthony Thompson: What Happened When I Forgave My Wife’s Murderer
The Emanuel AME church shooting cut short the lives of nine people. Rev. Anthony Thompson lost his wife, Myra. He was also the first to publicly offer the shooter, Dylann Roof, forgiveness.
