A Christian leader tells how he embarked on a self-examiniation program at the onset of his fortieth birthday.

Pastoral care and counseling

A look at pastoral care by a minister who spent six weeks flat on his back.

Tragedy seldom gives warning. A pastor and his wife share how they dealt with a family's grief.

A pastor shares a working model of how Christians can build supporting relationships into each other.

Lay counseling accomplishes many things: it involves members in the work of the church, it provides a fulfilling ministry for lay persons, it takes a load off the pastor. It also solves people's problems.

How can the counseling demands of the 1980s be met by the local church? Five leaders share their observations.

Burn out is a common hazard that need not destroy its victims.

Ted Engstrom shares five books that are helping him in ministry.

It's not church polity and ecclesiology that make churches work. A caring mood, a Spirit-led harmony of purpose, and a spontaneous outreach to the needy world develop unity out of diversity.