November 15, 2009
Keys to Cultivating Leaders
Glen Schneiders urges church leaders to develop emerging leaders carefully through wise selection, mentoring, planned learning, and meaningful opportunities to lead.
Series: Featured
November 15, 2009
Growing Leaders in a Young Church: Interior and Exterior
Steve Cuss reflects on the interior life and exterior structure needed for healthy church leadership, from spiritual disciplines and dethroning idols to developing servant-hearted leaders.
November 15, 2009
Growing Leaders in a Young Church: Infancy to Eldership
Dave Smith reflects on planting CrossWay Christian Church and explains why patient leadership development, outside accountability, and proven servant character were essential to the church’s health.
November 15, 2009
Can We Become Better Discipling Churches?
Derek Duncan challenges churches to move beyond weekend-centered programming and build relational discipleship pathways that equip believers for leadership, mission, community engagement, and Great Commission living.
November 15, 2009
Developing the Leadership Culture
Glen Schneiders reflects on the church planter’s responsibility to develop leaders intentionally, creating a healthy leadership culture through coaching, mentoring, and long-term investment.
Loving Those Who Annoy You
Jan Johnson reflects on loving difficult people through prayer, confession, silence, and service, showing how God cultivates a heart of goodwill even in ordinary irritation.
November 8, 2009
Three Sides of Community Ministry
By John Sloper It”s the economy . . . well, maybe. At Broadway Christian Church in Mesa, Arizona, three separate ministries to help the economically disadvantaged are in place, and two of them began meeting needs long before the current economic downturn. Each has been responding to real needs on the east side of the Valley of the Sun in Arizona. Food Box Begun in the 1980s (its emphasis at first was clothing exchange), the Food Box Ministry has continued to grow and assisted almost 400 families in July 2009 (almost 1,500 individuals). The need has grown dramatically in the
November 8, 2009
City Centered: Making a Difference One Relationship at a Time
Hope Inner City serves Cincinnati through long-term relationships, challenging program-driven assumptions and showing how urban ministry can prioritize presence, discipleship, and faithful love.
November 8, 2009
God”s Pleasure Principle
Karen Diefendorf reflects on a dry devotional season, discovering in Ephesians a renewed sense of God’s pleasure in saving us and our grateful call to obedient, holy living.
November 1, 2009
Read Well to Lead Well
Eddie Lowen reflects on three leadership books that helped him embrace stewardship teaching, understand his leadership style, and equip others for better communication in the church.
November 1, 2009
Why I Write Books
Arron Chambers reflects on how he became an author and why he writes books: to minister through words that are powerful, personal, and enduring.
November 1, 2009
The Diploma of Biblical Studies
Summit Theological Seminary’s Diploma of Biblical Studies gives students a structured home study path for deeper Bible knowledge, church teaching, preaching preparation, and personal spiritual growth.
November 1, 2009
Death by Platitude
Mark Atteberry challenges preachers and teachers to move beyond stale religious platitudes, pursue real study, tackle tough topics, and trust God’s Word to do its work.
October 25, 2009
We Lead by Serving: A Band of Servants
Darryl Bolen reflects on 36 years of serving with elders, showing how encouragement, prayer, shared purpose, and team leadership strengthen both ministers and the church.
October 25, 2009
We Lead by Serving: Called to Be Shepherds, Not Cowboys
Ronald G. Cook contrasts cowboy-style leadership with the shepherding call of elders, showing how Jesus modeled servant leadership through mercy, trust, accountability, and restored purpose.
October 25, 2009
Sixteen Minutes on Sunday
Daniel Schantz remembers the comic chaos of childhood Sunday mornings and the lasting lesson hidden in the rush: nothing happens until you get out of bed and get going.
October 25, 2009
Frankly Speaking
Student Christian Fellowship at Ohio State University serves free frankfurters on High Street, using simple acts of service to build trust and open conversations about Christ.
October 25, 2009
The Wide Road Is Still the Wrong Road
David Faust, universalism, salvation, evangelism, George Barna, Unitarian Universalist Church, Restoration Movement, Cincinnati Christian University,
October 18, 2009
Words of Life and Death
Larry W. Timm encourages ministers to treat funeral messages as sacred ministry, offering grieving families biblical comfort, personal care, humility, and honest grace.
October 18, 2009
Reflections of a Public Servant
Rod Roberts reflects on the faith, family, church, and community influences that shaped his life of service and led him to pursue a campaign for governor of Iowa.
