February 7, 2010
How One Minister Survived a Building Program
Ken Swatman shares three principles that helped Oregon City Christian Church survive and even value the challenge of building and relocating to a new facility.
Series: Featured
February 7, 2010
Memoirs of a Young Preacher
Dale Tinsley reflects on a difficult ministry season and how God restored a divided congregation through unity, authentic love, perseverance, and one simple invitation.
February 7, 2010
What I Have Learned in 50 Years as a Theologian (Part 1)
Jack Cottrell reflects on 50 years of theological teaching, contrasting passing fads with enduring fundamentals and defending truth against the rise of relativism in doctrine.
January 31, 2010
Balance
Tom Ellsworth reflects on career pressure, crowded calendars, material pursuits, and the need to recover a balanced life rooted in Christ’s example and promise of rest.
One Man”s Changing View from an Ugly Couch
Brandon Smith reflects on how good things—ministry, reputation, work, and busyness—can crowd out the best things: knowing Christ, loving family well, and choosing spiritual freedom.
January 31, 2010
Forgiving Ourselves
John Mark Hicks reflects on self-forgiveness as the acceptance of God’s forgiveness, showing how grace, confession, and Christian community help believers move beyond shame.
January 30, 2010
Guaranteed Returns
Jeff Faull challenges believers to see difficult economic times as an opportunity for kingdom generosity, wise stewardship, and public examples of giving motivated by pure hearts.
January 24, 2010
It”s Just Like Fishing
Rick Chromey uses a fishing story to help smaller churches think about recruiting and retaining children’s ministry volunteers through grace, relationships, ownership, worth, laughter, and safety.
January 24, 2010
Children”s Ministry Leadership GOLD!
Rick Chromey shares a GOLD framework for children’s ministry leadership in smaller churches: grace, organism, loopy feedback, and decentralized leadership shaped by relationships and flexibility.
January 24, 2010
Should I Stay or Should I Go Now?
Ash Barker shares four discernment questions for leaders weighing ministry transition, drawing on urban mission experiences in Melbourne and Bangkok.
January 24, 2010
Holloway Named Executive Director of World Convention
Gary Holloway has been appointed executive director of World Convention, bringing academic, ministry, international, and Stone-Campbell Movement experience to the global gathering.
January 17, 2010
Fear Not . . . Volunteers Can Be Found!
Linda Ahlgrim shares how church leaders can identify, invite, and encourage children’s ministry volunteers by addressing five common fears that keep people from saying yes.
January 17, 2010
A Sabbatical for Volunteers
Volunteer church leaders can grow weary from years of faithful service. Wilbur Reid III makes the case for sabbaticals that renew leaders and strengthen the church.
January 17, 2010
The Lost Art of Encouragement
Terrie Todd reflects on encouragement cards collected over years of ministry and invites Christians to recover the powerful, lasting practice of writing notes that grant courage.
January 10, 2010
VBS Changes Lives
Stories from Missouri, Texas, Indiana, and Ohio show how VBS can shape children, restore families, encourage volunteers, and plant seeds of faith that last for years.
January 10, 2010
Introducing Hero HeadQuarters: Standard Publishing’s 2010 Vacation Bible School
Standard Publishing’s 2010 “Hero HeadQuarters” VBS teaches children that everyday obedience, faith, and courage can make a meaningful difference with God’s power at work.
January 10, 2010
We Call It Kids Camp
A week at Northshore Christian Church’s Kids’ Camp shows how children’s outreach can welcome families, teach the gospel, and bear lasting fruit in a new congregation.
January 10, 2010
Stone-Campbell Dialogue Launches New Phase
The Stone-Campbell Dialogue marked a decade of unity discussions by shifting its focus toward shared mission, service projects, grassroots engagement, and younger leadership across the movement’s three streams.
January 3, 2010
Provoking Change: A Review of Catalyst Atlanta
Brandon Smith reflects on the 2009 Catalyst conference, highlighting leadership lessons, memorable experiences, child sponsorship, and the movement sparked among thousands of young Christian leaders.
January 3, 2010
Local Church Membership”“Who Needs It?
John Castelein explores local church membership through a candid conversation between elders and seminary students about commitment, accountability, authority, baptism, and belonging.
