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Transforming Scrooge
Leadership Journal

 Transforming Scrooge

What does it take to turn greed into generosity?
Check Your Vitals
Leadership Journal

 Check Your Vitals

Top 10 indicators of relationship health
To Serve and Protect
Leadership Journal

 To Serve and Protect

How pastors guard the flock
The Most Influential Book of My Life
Leadership Journal : Online Only

 The Most Influential Book of My Life

Our faith is shaped by the stories we encounter.
Prayers That Change ME
Leadership Journal : Online Only

Prayers That Change ME

The Serenity Prayer isn't just for alcoholics.
Must-Reads from Gordon MacDonald

Our editors have compiled our best from this contributor from the archives. Here you'll find ground-breaking, honest, wise coverage that sets Leadership Journal apart.

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  Incarnate Preaching

It's not just living your words, it's knowing the lives of those you're speaking to.
Why THIS?
Why pastors benefit from knowing their audience well enough to relate to them. Including some basic questions each generation is wrestling with.

Ministry's Sweet Spot

It wasn't till we attempted the untried and untested that I discovered …
Why THIS?
The rewarding work of "people-building."
Speaking into the Meltdown

Speaking into the Meltdown

What might God be saying in tough economic times?
Why THIS?
In a time of economic distress, what questions should we be asking? And how would God answer those questions?

The 3:00 a.m. Phone Call

What makes a pastor a pastor?
Why THIS?
Gordon MacDonald compares the role of pastor with that of the shepherd in Psalm 23, concluding that delivering a sermon is not the most important element of the pastor/shepherd's ministry.

How a Mighty Church Falls

What it takes to prevent congregational decline.
Why THIS?
Gordon MacDonald identifies common signs of congregational decline.
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Onward, Christian Couple

Onward, Christian Couple

How marriages can survive deployment—with some help from the church.

Grieving with the Good Friday God

Grieving with the Good Friday God

Shannon Polson sought healing from her father's death by retracing his fatal journey into the Alaskan wilderness.

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