Our worship services can have a rhythm of revelation and response, and the music and the message can work together to accomplish both. But it won’t happen consistently by accident.
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Resurrecting a Dead Church
How can we proclaim to a neighborhood that the gospel has the power to defeat death and hell—but it couldn’t keep our church from closing?
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How Two Small Churches Are Reaching Their Community Through a Cross-Cultural Partnership
Mike Waddey noticed about 100 Hispanic people gathered in a park across the street from his church. He wasn’t experienced in cross-cultural ministry, so he started asking God for help.
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Rebound in the Heartland: How Two Struggling Kansas Churches Grew Deep and Wide
Back in the 1970s, things looked pretty bleak for a pair of churches in rural Kansas. Then, little by little, things started to change.
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America’s Hidden Mission Field: Why We Need Rural Churches
Many of the least churched regions are in rural America—where about 14 percent of the U.S. population lives, according to Pew Research.
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3 Things My Call to Adopt Taught Me
My journey to adoption was not one I ever planned. God showed me the face of a little girl in the hallway of a church in Wisconsin, and I was forever changed.
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