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1. John Bevere Reveals the Secret to Killing Your Spiritual Kryptonite

There's a deadly poison seeping into the body of Christ today. Best-selling author and world-renowned speaker John Bevere calls it the church's kryptonite—and it's not only weakening believers' intimacy w ...

Created on 20 September 2017

2. John Bevere Reveals the Modern Church's Kryptonite

It may come as a surprise that my goal is to frustrate you. I'll tell you why. There is a sharp disconnect between what happened in the New Testament church and what is happening in the church today. I ...

Created on 15 September 2017

3. 3 Compelling Reasons Paul Didn't Silence Women in the Church

First Corinthians 14:34-35 is one of those passages that has been used throughout Christian history to confine and silence women. It reads, "Let your women remain silent in the churches. For they are no ...

Created on 07 September 2017

4. Beware of These 12 Hazards When You Lead in the Church

As someone who has served in executive leadership and with many senior level leaders for many decades, I have observed the following 12 hazards. By "hazard

Created on 06 September 2017

5. Watch Out for the Virus of Spiritual Pride

Does anyone remember Robert Tilton's Word of Faith World Outreach Center in Dallas? It was one of the biggest megachurches in the country back in the 1980s. Tilton broadcast his popular "Success-N-Lif ...

Created on 05 September 2017

6. Rediscovering the Original 'Ekklesia' With the Holy Spirit's Help

I believe we are living in a time where the Holy Spirit is highlighting the word ekklesia (Greek for "church," kehila in Hebrew) in order to help us rediscover and walk in its original meaning. Throughou ...

Created on 23 August 2017

7. Why We Must Heed Bishop Blake's Advice on Improving Race Relations

Our nation is horrified by the violence and death that occurred in Charlottesville, Virginia, over the weekend. My longtime friend Bishop Charles Blake, presiding bishop of the Church of God in Christ, ...

Created on 15 August 2017

8. 10 Reasons We Keep Seeing Established Churches Failing

Where I live, dozens of large old church buildings that used to hold thriving congregations strewn along a major avenue in Brooklyn, New York. Some have been torn down and developed, while others are supported ...

Created on 09 August 2017

9. 9 Reasons So Many Young Churches Fizzle Out

The past four decades of working with churches, as well as overseeing a network of churches, have taught me several lessons related to their success and failure. In this article, I will try to pinpoint ...

Created on 02 August 2017

10. IPHC Goes Back to Its Pentecostal and Holiness Roots

I have known Doug Beacham, general superintendent and presiding bishop of the International Pentecostal Holiness Church, since he was an up-and-coming church leader in the early 1990s. We even published ...

Created on 01 August 2017

11. 12 Things the Early Church Didn't Need to Change the World for Jesus

The book of Acts grants us a snapshot as to the power and effectiveness of the first-century church that transformed the world. I believe we are still called to extrapolate principles from the early church ...

Created on 28 July 2017

12. 3 Healthy Ways to Respond When You Feel Like a Misfit

Years ago, John and I found ourselves trying out churches after a leadership change at a small country church we'd been attending for years. With a preschooler, a toddler and a baby on the way, I ofte ...

Created on 26 July 2017

13. Compromised Churches: It's Time to Remove People, Clean House

People are leading ministries and churches all while the Bible instructs us not to even eat with them. It's time for a housecleaning. Facebook is a great, if unscientific, medium for discussions about cultur ...

Created on 24 July 2017

14. 10 Spiritual Seasons Your Local Church Will Likely Experience

Like every individual believer in Christ, there are various seasons every local church experiences, including highs, lows, growth, renewal, decrease and testing. As a local church pastor since 1984 and ...

Created on 24 July 2017

15. What the Female Leaders of Philippi Can Teach Us About Modern-Day Ministry

In his letter to the church at Philippi, Paul addresses two women by name, Euodia and Syntyche, and pleads with them to resolve their differences and to come together in agreement of mind and soul (Phil. ...

Created on 20 July 2017

16. How Prayer and Passion Inspired This Church to Go Against Conventional Wisdom

... and is spreading His Word. Although we are a fairly new church [a little over six years ago], we are reaching thousands of listeners each week via iTunes, YouTube, Vimeo, podcasts, radio and so on. The ...

Created on 19 July 2017

17. Wise Ways to Pray for the Person Attacking You on Social Media

...  tossed around—I was "soft on sin," "uncommitted to God's Word," "all grace and no truth." Accusation that the reason our church was growing was not our gospel-centeredness, but our corruption by cultur ...

Created on 20 July 2017

18. Don't Give Up on the Church in America

...  join an Eastern Orthodox Church. I can appreciate Hank's heart in this matter and others who feel the same way—entrepreneurship has been an ongoing issue in our nation for many years, but let's not th ...

Created on 10 July 2017

19. Instead of Setting Captives Free, the Church Has Settled for This Type of Godless Liberty

... their Declaration of Independence. The French, on the other hand, adopted the atheistic, anti-Christian values of the French Enlightenment and set out to eradicate God from public life. Churches were closed, ...

Created on 12 July 2017

20. How God Brought Breakthrough to One Man

"This church culture kind of turned God into a formula," says Larry Sparks in this video. Here, he describes how God transformed his life—and brought him back to the church after a period of burnout. Watc ...

Created on 11 July 2017