Articles for Outreach & Missions

When a man has an abusive wife, he often feels complex emotions that include pain inflicted by his wife's behavior, plus shame and isolation. Here are some thoughts about what to do when your wife is a bully.

For me, private and passionate prayer is intimate and deeply personal. And public prayer is...well...just a bit too public for me.

I often define discouragement as a “temporary loss of perspective.” Yet, regaining perspective when we are down and despondent is not always easy.

I’m going to say something that might be hard to hear: What if we let people leave—for the sake of unity?

Often, people will tell you that what you don’t know is a massive disadvantage, which can be incredibly discouraging when you’re a young leader and can’t possibly know as much as a 50-year-old.

Only when I began to embrace the pain I experience in life did I start to see and to know what’s true, and the freedom it brings. But my goodness it's hard to go through the valley.

Every hill you face is not worth dying on in leadership. When the pastor practices this, the church will flourish.

What if we've gotten the diagnosis for failing marriage in our culture wrong? What we need is to re-evaluate the cause of all these failing marriages.