20% of Church Members Do 80% of the Work

Dennis Fletcher

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Why Men Still Hate Going to Church

Another Path of Jesus

Out of the Darkness: DVD Documentary (Anteroom Pictures)

What Happened to Singles Ministry?

Adam Stadtmiller

Coming Clean

Liturgy with Bite?

Prophet in the Pulpit

Brandon O'Brien

The New Monk Warriors

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

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

Word? Indeed!

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

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

4 Conversation Skills that Transform

Kevin A. Miller

You Gotta Be There

Marshall Shelley

A Life to Die For …

A Bigger Toolbox

Cartoon

Budgets

Cartoon

Sneaking Out

Dennis Fletcher

Cartoon

Youth Pastor Needs

Dennis Fletcher

Cartoon

Virtual Confession

Cartoon

Curse the Darkness

Dennis Fletcher

Cartoon

Church Bitterness

Dennis Fletcher

Cartoon

Online Anger

Sandy Silverthorne

Our Latest

A 12 year old Nigerian girl who escaped the Boko Haram insurgency in 2019.

News

Even After Escaping Boko Haram, Women Wrestle with Trauma

Emmanuel Nwachukwu

“It’s not just the memories. It’s also how people treat you.”

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AI Won’t Get Us to Heaven. But It Might Be There When We Arrive.

Derek C. Schuurman

If eternity includes harps and the ships of Tarshish, why not computers too?

A glowing gold hourglass.

Time Is Scarce. It Should Be Sacred.

The church calendar can help us address our frenzied pace of life.

A Bible open in the foreground with hands and colorful dress of a Ugandan woman in the background.

Where Millions of Christians Don’t Get to Read the Bible

A new report identifies countries facing poverty, persecution, and printing shortages that limit access to Scripture.

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The Bulletin

Israel-Hamas Violence, ‘No Kings,’ and The Great Wealth Transfer

Mike Cosper, Clarissa Moll

Israel and Hamas test ceasefire, Americans protest authoritarianism, and thieves steal French crown jewels.

Parishioners attend Sunday service at New Life Baptist Church of Atlanta.

News

Amid ICE Raids, Korean American Churches Stay Quiet

Christians in the community are divided on how to respond, yet more churches want to prepare their congregants.

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Being Human

Dr. Alicia Britt Chole on Discovering Faith’s Dual Nature

Embracing doubt as a path to faith

Listener Question: How to make time for writing

The Russell Moore Show

Listener Question: How Can I Make Time for Writing?

Russell takes a listener’s question about making time to be a better writer.