May 9, 2010
How Churches Can Help Families
Paul Alexander urges churches to strengthen marriage and family ministry through practical programs, honest pastoral storytelling, marriage mentoring, and simple research into what couples truly need.
Series: Featured
Like Father, Like Son
Victor Knowles explores how faithful homes, supportive parents, prayer, hospitality, and ministry modeled up close helped shape several father-son ministry families in the Restoration Movement.
Generation to Generation: An Interview with Wayne Rice
Youth ministry pioneer Wayne Rice reflects on Youth Specialties, intergenerational church life, and why parents and the whole congregation matter in helping teens grow in faith.
May 2, 2010
Why Do Christians Serve? Guilt or Gratitude?
Larry W. Bailey explores the burden of guilt, the limits of human coping mechanisms, and the freedom Christians find when service flows from gratitude for God’s forgiveness.
“ËœGod, I Hate You!”
John Mark Hicks explores honest lament, grief, anger, and faith through Madeleine L’Engle’s startling prayer, Mack’s pain in The Shack, and Job’s wrestling with God.
May 2, 2010
You”re Not as Bad as You Think You Are
Mark Atteberry offers eight grace-filled reasons Christians may need to stop beating themselves up over guilt, failure, expectations, and unfinished stories.
April 25, 2010
The Integrity Mirror
Chuck Booher challenges pastors, elders, and ministry leaders to examine whether their private conduct reflects Christ, warning against intimidation, deceit, jealousy, and abuse behind the scenes.
April 25, 2010
The Arts–A Perfect Opportunity to Invite
Shockley Flick shows how music, drama, dance, and visual arts can help churches welcome newcomers, involve believers, and create meaningful opportunities for evangelism and community.
April 25, 2010
Literature as a Tool for Spiritual Growth
Marvin D. Hinten recommends ten literary classics that can help Christian leaders reflect on temptation, confession, grace, spiritual struggle, and the power of literature to connect readers with God.
April 25, 2010
God in the Cinema
Joseph C. D'Alessandro reflects on how Renaissance art awakened his faith and how film can help churches tell stories of redemption with beauty, power, and truth.
April 11, 2010
Megachurches: The 2009 List
CHRISTIAN STANDARD’s 2009 megachurch chart lists 114 megachurches and emerging megachurches, including churches with weekly attendance of 1,000 or more.
April 11, 2010
Register Today for Our Reports on Medium and Large Churches
Christian Standard invites churches averaging 250 to 999 in weekend attendance to participate in upcoming surveys for special reports on medium-sized and large congregations.
April 11, 2010
Megachurches: The Church of the Decade Is Real Life Ministries (Web-only Feature)
Real Life Ministries’ growth reflects a focus on relational discipleship, community outreach, leadership development, and partner churches rather than a personality-driven or performance-centered model.
April 11, 2010
Megachurches: Mega See, Mega Do
Kent Fillinger reports how special baptism services at megachurches and emerging megachurches led to thousands of baptisms in 2009 through prayer, clear preaching, planning, and follow-up.
April 11, 2010
Megachurches: Navigating at Compass
Compass Christian Church grew through a clear mission, four core values, and a multisite ministry model that opened new doors for outreach, leadership development, and community service.
April 11, 2010
Whatever Happened to False Doctrine?
Jeff Faull reflects on the New Testament’s repeated calls to unity and love while challenging the church not to abandon its responsibility to recognize and resist false doctrine.
April 11, 2010
Megachurches: A Mega Decade
Kent Fillinger reviews a decade of megachurch growth, baptisms, leadership longevity, and sustainability challenges among Christian churches and churches of Christ from 2000 to 2009.
April 11, 2010
Megachurches: Fun Facts Gleaned from This Year”s List
Kent Fillinger shares 2009 megachurch growth statistics, including weekend attendance, baptisms, fast-growing congregations, and total income across 114 megachurches and emerging megachurches.
April 11, 2010
Megachurches: Repentance Leads to Real Life
Justin Miller led Real Life Christian Church through repentance, unified eldership, renewed vision, discipleship, and leadership development after becoming senior minister during a season of financial strain.
April 11, 2010
Megachurches: A Closer Look at the Numbers
Kent Fillinger highlights 2009 megachurch and emerging megachurch attendance averages, fastest-growing churches, new churches crossing key attendance thresholds, and state-by-state reporting trends.
