Articles for Outreach & Missions

Most churches once served the community, but in the days of “build the program and they will come” many churches began to do everything in the building and neglected to get outside the walls of the church.

Consider what science has discovered about the benefits of gratitude.

It doesn’t take much—just one thought—and the sickening feeling stabs my stomach. I am having an anxiety attack again.

What does Scripture tell us about the rapture? And why are there different theories surrounding it?

The best executive pastors sit at the intersection of vision and reality. That is to say, they spend their time balancing the bright future of the church on one hand and the facts of where the church is today on the other.

God gives us open-book tests, but we don’t know we have been examined until it is over. The point of these tests is to determine "Can God trust you?"

An overcomer disciplines his internal conversation toward a focus of praise to God. Discipline involves regulating your thinking and conduct by principle—not emotion, impulse or circumstances.

Newer generations of Africans live in constant fear of the spirits of poverty, sickness, failure and depression. They seek out a “pastor” or a prophet or a bishop for some formula that may give them spiritual power for a breakthrough or a deliverance. This is the new animism of Africa.