growth

As we stand on the cusp of a new year, let’s explore five practical ways to gauge the growth of your pastoral care over the past year.

Have you fallen for one of these superstitious church-growth myths?

Healthy things grow. Likewise, unhealthy things do not. In fact, the things that receive inadequate care, rather than staying the same, weaken and deteriorate, eventually dying.

Actor and author Danica McKellar is learning more and more about her new Christian faith. She says, "I’ve been discovering the pure part of it, that part that’s actually the core of it.”

It's easy to measure the physical growth of a child. All you need is a tape measure and a pencil. As children's ministry leaders, we should be measuring the spiritual growth of the children in our ministry.

Here's a question I’m working through about learning from different people: Does the breadth of your learning impact the depth of your learning?

"Personal growth in the hidden years is what God uses to prepare you for the public years."

It is necessary that we learn to come to God just as we are. But that’s not where faith stops. It grows. Eventually it comes to the place of “just as He is."