Inspiring Ministry & Church Development Articles

Peace-Makers, Takers, or Fakers?

You're dealing with some conflict in your church, right? How do I know that? Because conflict happens wherever two or more people are gathered. Just ask Adam and Eve, Paul and Barnabas, or Jesus and Judas. Bei...

What Servant Hearted Leadership Does (and Doesn’t) Look Like

Paul David Tripp

There is no doubt about it: servanthood is the thematic biblical description of every follower of Jesus Christ. How much more, then, is it true of those who are called to be leaders? I don't know about you, bu...

Why Jesus Cannot Be One Truth Among Many

Rebecca McLaughlin

The Problem of Monotheism It is tempting in our melting-pot societies to think that living alongside people of different faiths is a purely modern phenomenon. But people of different religious beliefs have ...

Suffering and Hope in the Time of COVID-19

Mark R. Talbot

Where Is God in Suffering? Suffering usually ambushes us. Things seem fine, and suddenly we get a bad case of the flu, we're thrown into grief over the loss of a loved one, or we start a series of painful t...

God Is Infinite and Personal

Francis A. Schaeffer

A God Big Enough Are we going to choose the answer of God or gods? The difficulty with gods instead of God is that limited gods are not big enough. To have an adequate answer of a personal beginning, we nee...

7 Ways to Use ‘Unfolding Grace’ in Your Church

Drew Hunter

The Bible’s Sweeping Story Many Christians know key doctrines or various texts within the Bible, but they often miss the sweep of the Bible’s big story and how it connects to Christ. The Bible tells the tru...

The Foundations of Family Discipleship

Matt Chandler and Adam Griffin

In Matthew 22, when someone asked Jesus Christ, almighty God incarnate, what is the most important command in the entire Old Testament, he didn't hesitate in his answer. Recalling Deuteronomy 6:5 Jesus replies...

What John Stott Learned About Theology From Bird-Watching

Tim Chester

John Stott is well known as an evangelist, preacher and writer, and a major influence of contemporary evangelicalism. But he was also a passionate bird-watcher. As a child, he collected butterflies. But, in th...

Help! I Can’t Stay Consistent with My Bible Reading

Katherine Forster

A Daily Staple Right now I have one breakfast food: oatmeal and almond butter. This is pretty much what I eat every morning—or at least, every morning where I have time between waking up and making the two-...

5 Questions About Sanctification

David Powlison

Q: What does it mean to be sanctified? A: To be sanctified is to have your faith simplified, clarified, and deepened. You need God. You know God. You love God. You see life, God, yourself, others more truly...