Articles for Outreach & Missions

Predictions on future church trends culled from talking to about 250,000 different congregations.

After being in prayer ministry for over 25 years, I have been in hundreds of prayer rooms in churches of every stripe. There are three basic types or prayer rooms I would like to address today...

Security. As a culture, we make every effort possible and spend billions of dollars in our attempts to be “secure.” There are alarms on...

Certainly, this post was at least partly prompted by the incredible number of sad, tragic, and horrific events in my denomination. For sure, the brutal...

If anyone could address the issue of hypocritical religiosity, it was Paul, a Jew of the Jews, a Pharisee—one of the insiders who became a true Christian and an apostle.

Characteristics of Effective Prayer One very important condition for effective prayer is to be committed to walking out a lifestyle of righteousness before God and...

Have you ever tried loving your spouse according to Jesus’ new commandment, given in John 15:12?

Are you truly reaching the unreached? As a church leader, you have a desire to tell new people about the good news of Jesus. But how do you know if you're actually being successful?