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Whether you're planning a spring sermon series or preparing to step away from the pulpit for the summer, these articles will help ensure that every sermon your congregation hears is well-prepared.

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Leadership
How Are Pastors Handling Ungathered Worship?
Six church leaders share about their adaptations, innovations, and frustrations as they respond to COVID-19.
Preaching
How to Lead Online Worship Without Losing Your Soul—or Body
8 tips for stewarding church technology in a time of social distancing.

W. David O. Taylor
Preaching
No-Sweat Sermons? No Thanks.
Many tools offer to make preaching prep easier, but struggle is the point.

Chad Ashby
Leadership
The Pastor’s Study Is Not a Bunker
Gregory the Great taught me not to retreat to the prayer room unless I have engaged the battles of the day.

John P. Burgess, Jerry Andrews, and Joseph Small
Leadership
The New Math of Church Mergers
An option once seen as a failed strategy is now giving many congregations a new lease on life.

Interview by Kyle Rohane and Kevin Miller
Outreach
What’s Next for the Multisite Church?
In a short time, one church in multiple locations has become a new normal. A pioneer of the model predicts where it’s headed.

Interview by Kevin Miller and Kyle Rohane
Outreach
The Inspirational, Interdenominational, Multi-Congregational Ministry Movement
What happens when local churches stop competing and start seeing themselves as multiple sites of God’s Church in a city?

Amy Simpson
Leadership
Where Can a Pastor Find Church?
Can those who lead congregations receive ministry from them as well?

Mandy Smith
Outreach
The Peculiar Tale of an Anglican-Baptist Church Plant
Why would two distinctly different denominations work together? And what have they learned?

Interview by Kevin Miller and Kyle Rohane
Outreach
This Church Model Thrives in Post-Christian Contexts
Missional communities seek to broaden our understanding of what it means to be a local church.

Kara Bettis