2020

We need to proactively plan to raise up women leaders, to call out their gifts, and to give them an opportunity.

It's essential to understand the biblical call to gather if we are to rightly think through the challenges of church in the COVID-19 crisis.

Churches are gathering again, but services and programs remain drastically different from the beginning of the year.

In a fragmented world, our faithfulness to the Gospel and to each other may be louder than our words.

Religious liberty still matters in the midst of this pandemic.

The one thing we can’t shirk these days is time with God. It’s our lifeline to health and happiness and hope.

In other words, when it comes to churches being part of the solution to racial injustice instead of an ongoing problem, NPR would have us believe that the glass remains half empty.

As a woman who has felt disappointment more than once in the church, my hope nevertheless remains strong.

Our faith leads men and women to know and grow in the knowledge of Christ.

Shaming churches for taking PPP (Paycheck Protection Program) loans misses the purpose of the CARES Act.

I can almost say for certain that, in our lifetime, there has never been a more appropriate time to think and talk about innovation in mission and church planting.

But very few twentieth-century novelists besides Lewis and Tolkien have the power to show us what good people look like--characters with integrity, compassion, courage, and a willingness to sacrifice for others.

If churches (and thus leaders) would understand discipleship in this way, I believe it would help reframe the insalubrious discipleship practices and programs seen today.

I believe God is doing something in this moment that we can't see in the present, but we will see in due time.

America is caught up (and has been for quite some time) in a culture war of the kind of nation it will be or become.

During times of uncertainty, our voice is more important than our words.

North Point: We love you too much to open the doors on Sunday morning. Let's focus on doing stuff for the community.

While its fashionable among the media to cite outliers who spurn the guidelines for their state, more churches by far are following the model of Calvary Chapel in both caring for their community and honoring those in authority.

But what if the normal we once experienced was inadequate and God is using this moment to jar us from complacency?

We need a deep, hidden life for a fruitful, public life.