Articles for Outreach & Missions

Crisis Management: How to Keep Our People During a Crisis

We all pay a big price for our failure to prepare the people.

Care for Your Community; Don’t Merely Consume From It

As Christians, we should never approach our communities with a consumer mentality.

10 Things I Learned Leading a Church in Revitalization

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.

Gratitude: The Brain’s Amazing Fertilizer

Consider what science has discovered about the benefits of gratitude.

You Are Not Your Anxiety

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

What Is the Rapture? (1 Thessalonians 4)

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

6 Systems Every Executive Pastor Needs to Evaluate This Year

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.

Does God Trust YOU?

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?"