Seven Ways Your Church Must Deal with Rapid Change

Though it is cliché, change is the constant in our culture. Even before COVID, the world was changing steadily and constantly. When the pandemic...

Planting Gospel Hope In the Hardest Places

Most of us can’t imagine trying to raise a family on just 50 cents a day. Yet deep poverty is the reality for one...

Advancing the Gospel In a Post-covid World, Part 2

Previously, I shared with you that technological platforms now exist that allow us to reach the same audience time and time again and be...

How the Stand and Greet Time Disappeared In Churches (and How to Replace It)

You don’t hear much about it today, but it was a topic of amusing debate a few years ago. Its most common name was “stand...

5 Truths to Rehearse In Loneliness

If you’ve been in ministry for any length of time, you’ve experienced people walking away despite your prayers, tears, love, energy, and time. You...

Joe’s Interview About Spiritual Maturity

Let him who thinks he stands take heed, lest he fall. (I Corinthians 10:12) When a friend texted to ask if he could interview me...

7 Benefits of an Often Overlooked Planning Tool: the Pre-mortem

Jesus recognized the role good planning plays in life and ministry. He said, Suppose one of you wants to build a tower. Will he not first sit...

3 Things Church Planters Need to Know About Fundraising

The past three years of church planting have revealed some areas where I lack gifting. But the work has also revealed other areas of...

Your Work for God Will Never Be In Vain

Is what I am doing really making a difference? Does it even matter? Individuals often ask these questions—individuals who find themselves in the throes of life,...

5 Faulty Assumptions About the Future Church

As you know, it’s been a tough time to lead in the church over the last few years. What makes it even harder, though, is...
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Acts 29 Stories: Acts Church In Manila, Philippines

Written by: Olivia Meade  Olivia Meade works as a content editor for Acts 29. She’s a member of New Heights Church in West Virginia, where she...

Quotes and Leadership Lessons from Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire

Walking out of the theater after seeing Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire, all I can say is WOW. That movie took me back to the feelings...

Joe’s 10 Iron-clad Rules for Success In the Ministry.. Some of Which May Work

You’re new in the ministry, right?  And you want to do well, of course. You have definitely come to the right place, friend.  Pull...