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Leadership Journal Winter 2012

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Shedding Lethargy

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Know Your Neighbors?

Matt Branaugh

The Hardest Sermons and Other Resources

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Ministry Meltdown

Bob Merritt

Your Toughest Audience

Interview with Joe Thorn

Road to Recovery

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Facebook vs. FaceTime

View from the Second Story

Paul Pastor

Outlooks on Outreach

A conversation with James and Jonathan Merritt

Love Needs No Justification

Skye Jethani

Acting Like Jesus

Syler Thomas

How Will They Hear?

A 'Move' in the Right Direction

Steve Tomlinson

Rod and Reel, or Net?

Robert Crosby

I (Finally) Do

Eric Reed

The Gospel in Contexts

Joshua W. Moody

Great Humility

Interview with John Dickson

Epic Fail

J.R. Briggs

Six Reasons Young People Leave the Church

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The Soul of Steve Jobs

Gordon MacDonald

In Search of "Biblical Symmetry"

Drew Dyck

The Fall

Nathan Conrad as told to Matt Woodley

The 2011 Leadership Book Awards

Fishing Mindsets: Pole vs. Net

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Game Night

Dennis Fletcher

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Now Entering the Mission Field

Dennis Fletcher

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Transformation

Tim Walburg

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Congregation's Usefulness

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Building Bridges

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Pastoral Search Committee

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Recalibrating What ‘People’ and ‘Place’ Mean

Chris Howles

UK mission mobilizer wants to rethink “unreached people groups” amid changing migration patterns and a digitally-connected world.

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Deborah Haarsma

The heavens declare the glory of God in the person of Jesus Christ

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A Place for the Placeless

Nicole Massie Martin

A letter from Mission Advancement in our November/December issue.

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The ‘Unreached’ Aren’t Over There

Samuel Law

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The Architecture of Revelation

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A monastery on Patmos builds silence in a world of noise

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God Is Your Father, Not Your Dad

Kirsten Sanders

Our therapy culture has made us too comfortable with God.

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