Articles for Outreach & Missions

Be Like the Bereans (Do Your Own Thinking)

One of the most common and costly mistakes followers make is letting their leaders do their thinking for them. Don’t do that! Instead, be like the Bereans mentioned in the book of Acts.

Are You Approaching Burn Out? Check These 4 Signs

I have seen and also learned the hard way that pushing through seasons of exhaustion can backfire.

5 Ways to Activate Faith Over Fear

These are uncommon days when fear can wear down even the most courageous, positive, and level-headed leaders. More than ever, we need people who are leading from faith.

Angel Numbers in the Bible – Is This for Real?

Repeating numeric sequences are known as “angel numbers” and are filled with meaning and significance as signs of “confirmation” and “directionality.” Are angel numbers in the Bible?  

10 Signs You Are Living in Your Own Kingdom (and Not the Kingdom of God)

How do you know if you are building your own kingdom and asking God to be a part of it instead of actually building God's kingdom? I believe there are a few questions we need to ask to see whose kingdom we are building.

Thom Rainer: 7 Reasons Why Church Outreach Programs Fail

When I wrote "Autopsy of a Deceased Church," my desire was to demonstrate the terrible consequences and deaths of local congregations when the members are inwardly focused. It's why church outreach Programs fail.

4 Ways Husbands Should Lead

"C.S. Lewis says that in the marriage relationship, men wear a crown, but it is first and foremost one of thorns."

Growing, Healthy Churches Need Protectors and Advancers

If we don’t have protectors we will eventually get into trouble. If we don’t have advancers we will eventually not exist.