Good discussions don't just happen. Here's how one leader started out and failed--but through trial and error discovered what makes discussion work.

An interview with Dr. Richard C. Halverson

Good leadership is a limited resource that must be carefully nurtured and renewed. David McKenna advocates a great idea that could go far toward eliminating leadership frustration, waste, and break-down.

A look at pastoral care by a minister who spent six weeks flat on his back.

Tragedy seldom gives warning. A pastor and his wife share how they dealt with a family's grief.

A pastor shares a working model of how Christians can build supporting relationships into each other.

Lay counseling accomplishes many things: it involves members in the work of the church, it provides a fulfilling ministry for lay persons, it takes a load off the pastor. It also solves people's problems.

A Christian leader tells how he embarked on a self-examiniation program at the onset of his fortieth birthday.

How can the counseling demands of the 1980s be met by the local church? Five leaders share their observations.

Pastoral care and counseling

Happy families are all alike: every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

Modern psychology says you must to find yourself; the Scriptures say to give yourself away.