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Free eBook: Morning & Evening, by Charles Spurgeon

"For thousands of Christians over the last century, Spurgeon's Morning and Evening has been a daily devotional guide through life's ups and downs."

Humbled but Not Discouraged

How can we discover our own sins and failures and not be discouraged?

The Journey of a Church Planter

"Sometimes God gets in the way to show us the way," says Mark Batterson.

Leading with a Lead Pipe

Lead people to create something for them rather than to extract something from them.

4 Essentials to a Great Sermon

Four practical suggestions to revitalize your preaching.

Piper: The Secret of Invincible Joy

Jesus revealed a secret that protects our happiness from the threat of suffering and the threat of success. That secret is this: Great...

7 Top Issues Church Planters Face, Issue #1: Leadership Development and Reproducing Culture

In my introductory post for this series, I explained the research process that informed the 7 Top Issues Planters Face. I have partnered with my...

We Will BE The Church

The 2016 Vision that we have been crafting for more than a year will be presented in its’ final form to a gathering...

Church Trends with Perry Noble

Perry Noble is the senior pastor of NewSpring Church, a multi-site church in South Carolina. He planted the church about ten years...

Popular Theories About Why Early Christians Considered Jesus Divine: Part 2

In my last post, I began considering popular theories about why the early Christians considered Jesus to be divine. The first theory pointed...

The Way a Leader is Expected to Respond…

Have you learned a valuable principle about your leadership? The way others expect you to respond often determines the way they respond to you. If they...

Does My Worship Contain Envy and Rivalry?

It is a sigh of relief to know that we don’t have to be perfect to worship God. If God required that we...

It’s No Accident You Live in This Time and Place

When the following was posted last month on the Desiring God blog, written by Michael Oh, I was very touched by it. Read...

7 Deadly Leadership Sins

We have all seen leaders make mistakes and lose their position or influence.  Often leaders can recover and become a force for good in the lives...

Is “Leadership” Biblical? A Few Reasons to Say “No.”

There’s been much ranting and raving on the inadequacies of leadership in the church. See Darryl here,  Bill Kinnon here, and the man who...

God's Motivation

A few Bibles ago I got interested in the question of what motivated God. As I read through the Bible, I wrote down...

My Movie Problem

I love and hate movies. Story is my language, my natural medium, the way I understand the world. Give me a long treatise on...

Systematic Theology as Storytelling?

While putting together a post for Koinonia I came across this quote from Michael Horton's new volume The Christian Faith: A Systematic Theology for...

Five Principles for Growing a Generous Church Culture

What does it mean to be a truly generous church? How do you build a generosity culture into your DNA? Patrick Johnson, Chief...

More and More Churches Facing Foreclosure

Hundreds more churches are facing dire economic struggles than in the past decade.

Andy Bannister: How Pastors and Churches Can Stop Living as ‘Undercover...

Dr. Andy Bannister joins “The Stetzer ChurchLeaders Podcast” to talk about how pastors and church members can share their faith boldly, strategically, and without fear.

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