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Fall 2004: Keeping Conflict Healthy

Volume 25
Fall

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Back-seat Fighter
Would I ever learn to keep my comments about church antagonists to myself?
Leadership Surveys Church Conflict
Bad news: 95% experience conflict. Good news: 94% report positive results.
Crisis Ready
Tragedies are inevitable but never expected. When the next one occurs, will your church be strengthened or shattered?
The Heart of Stone Church
When one member stonewalls growth and outreach, what is a church to do?
Navigational Errors
Navigational Errors
A thriving church sank, not because it hit an iceberg, but because of six leadership mistakes afterward.
Leading Worship Leaders
4 ways I'm learning to guide artists.
More Internet Ideas that Work
How are you connecting with your church and community in cyberspace?
Reaching the Post-Christian
They're today's non-seekers, who've seen Christianity and think they have reasons for rejecting it.
Why Serious Preachers Use Humor
Plus: Top 25 Worship Songs
Water from Home
Parched and hurting, I stood alone.
Rabble Roused
The complainers place me in an awkward position, seeking God on their behalf when I'd rather give them the boot.
Ghosts of Conflicts Past
This church had been stalking its pastors for generations. Now it was time to stop.
The New Worship Topography
After the music wars, the map has changed. How shall we navigate?
The Good Fight
4 spiritual disciplines to keep fights from scarring your soul.
The Conversation You Dread
A nasty outburst led to a more constructive approach for those difficult confrontations.
The War of Online Words
There's nothing virtual about e-conflict.
Red-Faced Pastor in a Blue State
Red-Faced Pastor in a Blue State
Amid political tensions, when is a pastor to speak out and when to refrain?
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