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LISTEN TO THIS ARTICLE: Great news! Your hero is coming to town and has plans to visit YOU! You get word that they’re showing up on Saturday afternoon, and after the quick burst of excitement, you jump into action. My...

LISTEN TO THIS ARTICLE: “Go therefore and make disciples of all nations.” You have likely read, memorized, reread, and preached on these verses numerous times! But the key command to “make disciples” can sometimes still feel out of reach or...

LISTEN TO THIS ARTICLE: After college, I spent over ten years working in a para-church organization. For most of those years, I helped recruit, train, and maintain a volunteer staff. I loved it, but there were moments when the volunteers...

LISTEN TO THIS ARTICLE: So there I was, sitting in an interview, with all the normal thoughts going through my head. “Am I answering this the way they want?” “Do I seem confident? But not too confident?” “Do my armpits...

LISTEN TO THIS ARTICLE: Your church probably wants to reach the surrounding community, see new people come, and hopes those people stick around. But it doesn’t matter how great our intentions or our desires and goals are if the visitor...

LISTEN TO THIS ARTICLE: “Hey! I hate having to send this message, but I am going to have to step back from serving in Student Ministry for a bit. Hopefully not forever, but at least for this semester. I’m going...

LISTEN TO THIS ARTICLE: Youth workers are typically the best utility players on a church staff team. The roles we play in student ministry make us into ministers who can truly serve our students faithfully. Some moments, we are a...

LISTEN TO THIS ARTICLE: Having five kids, the dirty laundry is an area that gets backed up a lot. Picture how much laundry you think there is, and then multiply it by a factor of about a million. Seriously though,...

LISTEN TO THIS ARTICLE: Youth Ministry is full of excitement, energy, creativity, sights, sounds, cheap pizza, and odd smells! That’s why we love youth ministry, right? That’s who middle schoolers and high schoolers are and how they are wired. So, are...

LISTEN TO THIS ARTICLE: I’ve had the privilege to be part of several different teams in my life. Growing up, I was on the safety patrol in elementary school (can I get an AMEN?!?!). We proudly wore our orange vests...

LISTEN TO THIS ARTICLE: Is church attendance still down for you?  Maybe it’s COVID hesitation? Maybe it’s Gen Z’s lack of attachment to institutionalized religion? Maybe it’s busy schedules? I think one of the biggest disruptors to church attendance and...