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Fall : The Calling

Volume 24

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From the Editor

Marshall Shelley

Currents Shaping Our World: The Purpose-Driven BestSeller

Devotional tops secular charts, and your church is reading it.

With information from USA Today and LeadershipJournal.net

Currents Shaping My Church: Has Your Church Jumped the Shark?

Leadership lessons from Fonzie's waterskiing feat.

David and Angie Ward

Currents Shaping My Soul: Why Do They Love/Hate Me?

Attitudes toward a pastor emerge from deep, dark sources.

Kevin A. Miller

Currents: In Search of Spiritual Community

A converstation with Carmen Renee Berry

A conversation with Carmen Renee Berry

Called to What?

A Leadership Forum

Erwin McManus, Glenn Wagner, and Leith Anderson

How Pastors Rate as Leaders

Leadership surveys pastors and their congregations.

Eric Reed and Collin Hansen

God's Calling Plan

So what exactly is a call to ministry?

Gordon MacDonald

Rescuing the Search

Mark Lauterbach

Jilted Again

Candidating means you gotta handle rejection.

Bob Myers

Discipleship

When Your Wife Resents Your Call

A disconnect at home has a variety of causes.

Linda Riley

The Fine Art of Rejuvenation

How 3 leaders renew the call when they're confused, tired, or just plain mad.

Heidi Husted, Roberta Hestenes, and Jim Coyl

Outreach

Tired of Playing It Safe in Ministry?

This "pastorpreneur" heard a higher (and harder) calling.

John Jackson

Helping Others Answer the Call

Your response to those who feel called may affect the future course of their ministry. An interview with Maxie Dunnam

An interview with Maxie Dunnam

Inside Preaching

M. Craig Barnes

Sermon Workshop: Power in the Punch Line

How distilling your messages makes them more potent.

Andy Stanley

Sunday Toolkit: To Illustrate

Discipleship

Sunday Toolkit: To Illustrate

Sunday Toolkit: Worship Tools

Leadership

My Church's inferiority Complex

How one congregation traded the poor little us mindset for new confidence.

Peter Youmans

At Offering Time, My Job Is on the Line

When your congregation's financial 'inferiority' causes problems for your bank account.

George R. Cannon, Jr.

I Actually Like Elders Meetings!

One question changed my tune and taught me to move in step with them.

Keith Mannes

How We Tamed the Big List

Are your to dos too long?

Grant McDowell

Outreach

Thinking Global

When the pastor becomes a missions force, the whole church is affected.

Daniel Henderson

Growing Edge Book Review: Why Words Follow Works

When explosive evangelism fizzles and servant evangelism doesn't work, what's next?

Kathy Callahan-Howell

Leadership's Top 40: #14

Vic's War

50 years after a regrettable bombing raid, a vet ends his silence ... because a pastor knew what to ask, and when.

David Hansen

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