20% of Church Members Do 80% of the Work

Dennis Fletcher

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The Leadership Journal archives contain over 35 years of issues. These archives contain a trove of pastoral wisdom, leadership skills, and encouragement for your calling.

Leadership Journal Summer 2012

Why Men Still Hate Going to Church

Another Path of Jesus

Richard Twiss

Out of the Darkness: DVD Documentary (Anteroom Pictures)

Mark Moring

What Happened to Singles Ministry?

Adam Stadtmiller

Coming Clean

Liturgy with Bite?

Eric Reed

Prophet in the Pulpit

Brandon O'Brien

The New Monk Warriors

Greg Taylor

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

Barnabas Piper

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

David Swanson

Word? Indeed!

Eric Reed

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

David Swanson

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

David Swanson

4 Conversation Skills that Transform

Kevin A. Miller

You Gotta Be There

Marshall Shelley

A Life to Die For …

A Bigger Toolbox

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Budgets

Tim Walburg

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Sneaking Out

Dennis Fletcher

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Youth Pastor Needs

Dennis Fletcher

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Virtual Confession

Nick Hobart

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Curse the Darkness

Dennis Fletcher

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Church Bitterness

Dennis Fletcher

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Online Anger

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Let's Stop Abusing Romans 13

The Russell Moore Show

Let’s Stop Abusing Romans 13: On ICE violence

Believers often use Romans 13 to wave away state violence, but that’s the opposite of what Paul intended.

People praying at Early Rain Covenant Church in 2018.

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Influential Chinese House Church Faces New Crackdown

Joy Ren

Leaders of Early Rain Covenant Church had prepared for the roundup, which saw 9 leaders and staff detained.

A man with a straw hat walks with others on the Selma to Montgomery marches held in support of voter rights in late March of 1965.

We Are Risking the Legacy of the Civil Rights Generation

All is not lost. But Christians must regain our distinctiveness and reclaim our moral clarity.

Protest in Iran; fire in the middle and people all around.

The Bulletin

Iranians Speak Up, Jerome Powell Stands Strong, and Grok Under Scrutiny

Mike Cosper, Clarissa Moll, Russell Moore

Iranians’ courage amidst deadly protests, the Federal Reserve’s independence in question, and explicit images in Elon Musk’s AI.

An image of MLK's funeral and an old CT magazine cover.

Through a Storm of Violence

Daniel Silliman

In 1968, CT grappled with the Vietnam War and the assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy.

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Authority Is Good. But Whose Authority?

Three books on theology to read this month.

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. at a press conference accompanied by his aide Reverend Andrew Young.

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The Christian Curriculum Teaching Civil Rights to a New Generation

The program connects contemporary challenges to time-tested lessons from Civil Rights icons like MLK and Andrew Young.