Outreach Leaders

For the sake of your health and effectiveness, you need friendships. Here's why.

There is an acute pain for those who lost their job through no fault of their own. Because this is my story, it has given me a fresh perspective on what millions of others are going through right now since they've lost their job.

The following reflection is written with all of these past and present realities in mind. Horatio Spafford, after losing four daughters in a tragic Atlantic Ocean shipwreck, he lamented his “sorrows like sea billows” through the writing of a now-famous hymn, “It Is Well With My Soul.”

Life in this terribly broken world is hard. You are constantly dealing with the frustration of this world not operating the way God intended. Now, there are really only two responses we can have to the brokenness that complicates all of our lives: cursing or mourning.

Face masks are a point of controversy these days of coronavirus. Like sackcloth, they’re uncomfortable, inconvenient, and goofy-looking. It makes sense to me that, rightly used, they can’t do much harm, and they probably can do a lot of good.

It's easy for emerging movements to become ministry arrogant.

You’ll know you’ve come across one when you feel like you’ve turned the corner in a hallway and bumped into someone kicking, punching and screaming at a locked door; the psalms of lament are that intense. You are allowed to be angry with God.

God wants husbands leading and loving their wives in godly, nourishing, Christlike ways. Here are six practical ways that you, as a husband, can lead and love your wife.