Piercing the Pastor’s Thick Skin
by Craig Cable Most of my professional career has been spent in leadership positions. I learned early that to be a good leader, I had to have fairly thick skin.…
by Craig Cable Most of my professional career has been spent in leadership positions. I learned early that to be a good leader, I had to have fairly thick skin.…
by Joani Schultz “People talk about bike riding when they want to remind us that some things, once learned, are not forgotten. What they don’t mention is how we learned.…
by Austin Maxheimer A continuing struggle of mine is being present at home. I learned some bad habits that I considered “necessary for survival” while living through different seasons of…
by Rick Chromey I love baseball. It’s truly a beautiful, unique game. Baseball is influenced by its past but not dictated by it. Like Christianity, baseball is Trinitarian. Three strikes. …
by Mikal Keefer Something to consider the next time you fly: roughly 87,000 flights crisscross U.S. airspace daily, most of them shuffled into increasingly crowded flight paths. And, at some…
by Josh Packard Why would someone devote his whole life to church and then one day decide to walk out the door and not come back? This was the central…
by Rick Chromey Spring has truly sprung. Everywhere you look, trees bud, grass greens, and birds nest. As the days warm, there’s the promise of better days ahead. The dark,…
by Rick Chromey In Millennial dating culture, there’s a popular acronym known as “DTR” or “defining the relationship.” It’s the first step in going steady. A DTR solidifies commitment and…
By Thom Schultz What if we started over? What if we erased everything we know about the organized church and its activities and began reimagining ministry? What if we started…
by Thom Schultz Ministries get paralyzed for many reasons. One of these reasons is perfectly predictable—and avoidable. It is the fear of the naysayer. You’ve been there. You have a…