Curse the Darkness

Dennis Fletcher

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Leadership Journal Summer 2012

Why Men Still Hate Going to Church

Another Path of Jesus

Out of the Darkness: DVD Documentary (Anteroom Pictures)

What Happened to Singles Ministry?

Adam Stadtmiller

Coming Clean

Liturgy with Bite?

Prophet in the Pulpit

Brandon O'Brien

The New Monk Warriors

For the City: Proclaiming and Living Out the Gospel (Zondervan, 2011) By Darrin Patrick & Matt Carter with Joel A. Lindsey

Emotional Stability

An interview with Peter Scazzero

Coming Down the Mountain

The Big Reveal

Guy Conn, as told to Paul Pastor

Why Did a Lesbian Couple Choose Our Church?

Redeeming Church Conflicts: Turning Crisis into Compassion and Care (Baker, 2012) Tara Barthel and David C. Edling

Word? Indeed!

How to Spot a Transformed Christian

Gordon MacDonald

Crafting a Rule of Life: An Invitation to the Well-Ordered Way (IVP, 2012) Stephen A. Macchia

Getting Psyched to Preach

How to Score a Sabbatical

Greg Asimakoupoulos

How to Knock Over a 7-11: And Other Ministry Training (Cheshire, 2011) Michael Cheshire

4 Conversation Skills that Transform

Kevin A. Miller

You Gotta Be There

Marshall Shelley

A Life to Die For …

A Bigger Toolbox

Cartoon

Budgets

Cartoon

Sneaking Out

Dennis Fletcher

Cartoon

Youth Pastor Needs

Dennis Fletcher

Cartoon

Virtual Confession

Cartoon

Church Bitterness

Dennis Fletcher

Cartoon

Online Anger

Sandy Silverthorne

Cartoon

20% of Church Members Do 80% of the Work

Dennis Fletcher

Our Latest

A film still from The Promised Land.

Review

Puns and Pettiness in ‘The Promised Land’

Peter T. Chattaway

The YouTube mockumentary works best when it pulls laughs directly from Exodus.

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Being Human

Lysa TerKeurst on Surviving an Unwanted Divorce and Finding Healing Through Faith

Codependency, narcissism, and the courage to let go

A paper doll wedding dress with different colors on it.

Analysis

Christian Brides Don’t Need to Wear White

The Bulletin with Jen Wilkin

How Scripture offers grace in wedding planning.

Russell Moore Show Q&A

The Russell Moore Show

Listener Question: Should We Sing Worship Songs By Fallen Songwriters?

Russell takes a listener’s question about whether the work of fallen songwriters and authors should be used for worship.

Cityscape with St. Paul's Cathedral, London.

Excerpt

Apologetics After Christendom

The Bulletin with Collin Hansen

How to share your faith in a “spiritual but not religious” world.

Two polaroid photos, one with a young couple walking on a city street. In the other photo the same couple is older and sitting together.

The Bulletin

Sunday Afternoon Reads: An American Deportation

Andy Olsen reads his piece about a Christian couple’s 35-year stay in America, and how it came to an end.

The Kuala Lumpur Courts Complex in Malaysia.

News

Malaysian Court Vindicates Family of Abducted Pastor

A judge finds authorities complicit in Raymond Koh’s disappearance, granting millions in damages and ordering a new investigation.

News

When God Closes a Church, He Opens Another?

US evangelicals are buying up shuttered Catholic properties.