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It's Your Call
Leadership Journal

 It's Your Call

Questions to help discern where God's leading.
The Way of Discernment
Leadership Journal

 The Way of Discernment

Leading God's people means seeking God's guidance.
When Clean and Unclean Touch
Leadership Journal

When Clean and Unclean Touch

Jesus' revolutionary reversal puts transformation within reach.
Get Behind Me, Satan!
Leadership Journal

Get Behind Me, Satan!

Satan's disdain for humanity runs deep.
Leadership Journal

 Even the Darkness

The loss of a friend sparked an extended time of dryness.
Must-Reads from Mark Buchanan

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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  Backdraft Preaching

Why THIS?
Mark Buchanan identifies three disciplines that help him handle the all-consuming and explosive nature of the preaching call.

  The Good Fight

4 spiritual disciplines to keep fights from scarring your soul.
Why THIS?
Mark Buchanan explains how heartbreak, giddiness, hardness, and humility can help pastors respond appropriately to church conflits.

  Sex & the City of God

How do we respond to a corrupted culture? Two faulty examples and a better one.
Why THIS?
How should a church respond to a corrupt culture? In this article, Mark Buchanan suggests following the example set by Daniel (rather than Jonah or Esther).

Wreck the Roof

Are you willing to take apart the church to bring people to Jesus?
Why THIS?
Is your church doing everything it can (and everything it claims to value) to bring those outside the church walls into Jesus' presence?

The People and the Black Book

One church's attempt to do justly
Why THIS?
Mark Buchanan's church is trying to spark reconciliation in its community, and they know it must begin with their commitment to acting justly.
Mark Buchanan's Books See all
Jesus' Elevator Speech

Jesus' Elevator Speech

Or was it his inaugural address? There's a difference.

Two Urban Manifestos for Evangelical Christians

This Is Our City

Two Urban Manifestos for Evangelical Christians

Two new books locate Christians' presence in cities, but only one of them actually engages the city.

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