Praise Band

Dennis Fletcher

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Leadership Journal Winter 2009

Opportunity's Hard Knocks

Your Hidden Curriculum

Can I Trust You?

Something Old, Something New

The Leaf Raking Doctrine

Gordon MacDonald

Discovering and Escaping Liturgy

Community Is <em>Not</em> the Goal

A Leadership interview with Jon Trott

Skimming

Struggling with Same-Gender Attraction

Return to Ritual

Bill Hybels Talks REVEAL

A Leadership interview with Bill Hybels

Unfinished Symphony

Reviewed by Mike Lueken

Great Expectations

The Megachurch and the Monastery

Jesus Saves; Americans Spend

When Details Get You Down

Chris Armstrong

Co-Ed Staff Dynamics

Reviewed by Angie Ward

I Embraced the Blended Worship Balancing Act

Church Growth by Google

Having Ears, Do You Not Hear?

An interview with Eugene Peterson

Single-Obsession Small Groups

With One Voice

A Leadership interview with Keith and Kristyn Getty

Are You Recession Ready?

Unction Junction

Bryan Wilkerson

Let Us Stand for the Benediction

What to Pray for a New President

Cartoon

Always Preaching

Cartoon

Call to Worship

Dennis Fletcher

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Chant the Minutes

Cartoon

Pastoral Counseling Session

Cartoon

Worry about earthly things

Our Latest

A photo of Benjamin Watson at mic with the title of the podcast The Just Life overlaid on the image

The Just Life with Benjamin Watson

Stephen Enada: Exposing a Silent Slaughter

Unpacking the crisis facing Nigeria’s persecuted Church

Detail from the painting Still-Life with a Skull by Philippe de Champaigne

The Strangest Enemy I’ll Ever Meet

Eric McLaughlin

Scripture speaks of death as an enemy Christ conquers—and the door through which we see God face to face.

The book cover on a green background.

Review

First Comes Sex, Then Comes Gender

A new book acknowledges both categories as biblically valid—but insists on ordering them properly.

Blue and red snakes hissing at each other.

In Politics, Contempt Is a Common Tongue

Antisemitic, racist texts show the need for spiritual and character renewal.

Military families receive free food from a food bank

News

Government Shutdown Deepens Hunger Crisis

Harvest Prude in Maryland

When paychecks and SNAP distributions stop, the food pantry line grows.

Jonah and the whale

Jonah in an Age of Outrage

Michael LeFebvre

The prophet’s lesson is also ours: We must recover compassion for neighbor and enemy alike, or our words will be hollow.

Christian (left) and Muslim (right) women praying and studying in Iraq.

Grassroots Efforts Bring Together Diverse Sects in Iraq

Interfaith group uses projects and dialogues to push for greater religious freedom.

People worshipping in church.

Becoming Part of God’s Family

Carmen Joy Imes

Weekly participation in ordinary church life isn’t flashy, but it is radical.