The Inevitability of Change and How to Navigate It
by Austin Maxheimer Change is inevitable. This has always been the case, but it is felt much more acutely in our culture today. With each new technological advance and improved…
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Creatively Communicating the Gospel In and With Your Small Group
by Austin Maxheimer What if leaders in every small group in America were not allowed to get out a Bible during their group time for an entire year? What would…
Five Strategies to Activate Small Groups in Your Youth Ministry
by Austin Maxheimer Are small groups part of your student ministry? Are they working? The traditional small group model may be the last sacred cow of today’s church. Statistically, we…
3 Shifts in Culture That Should Change the Way We Look at Small Groups
Since small groups burst onto the American church landscape as a popular movement forty years ago, we’ve seen many culture shifts that call for us to revisit and shift the…
Finding Freedom in Discipleship Part 1
by Austin Maxheimer Discipleship is a trending topic in the larger church, and we are having conversations about it in our own church family as well. This is healthy, considering…
The Called Out Ones
by Austin Maxheimer The name given to the conversation we’ve been fostering is “Refresh the Church.” But what I am finding in my context is that while refreshing the church…
Missional Grace
by Austin Maxheimer What does a missional Christian community look like in your neighborhood, workplace, home, or other part of everyday life? One of the core messages of Christianity is…
3 “Why’s” for Church
by Austin Maxheimer “Why Church when it seems so lame?” This question forced me to revisit why I believe in the Church so deeply now, when that certainly wasn’t always…
Practical Multiplication of Grace
by Austin Maxheimer The words we use sometimes do us a disservice in capturing the biblical message. A classic example is when you read “heart” in the Old Testament. In…
6 Books to Read If You Dare
by Austin Maxheimer If we are going to truly Refresh the Church, then alongside the Bible and our favorite Christian authors, we need to be reading the books of our…
