The view from the ditch
From the perspective of the man in the ditch, the story of the Good Samaritan asks something more profound than whether you’re willing to help: Are you ready to be rescued?
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Scott Benhase: Stewards of God’s foolishness
King’s message comes straight from the church.
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Visibility: A feature of thriving communities
Third in a series. Christians are those whose common life positions them for visibility in the world as a witness to Jesus Christ, writes C. Kavin Rowe.
Tim Conder: Leadership, love of context, and ridiculous beverages
Authenticity requires that we lead appropriately in specific contexts. Integrity demands that we learn to love of places of calling.
Gary Simpson: A defiant community of friends
In a lonely, divisive and destructive world, the church is called to build community, to stand as “a defiant community of friends,” says the senior pastor of Concord Baptist Church of Christ.
John Schmalzbauer: How Kansas raises pastors
Over the past half-century, a single Kansas county has yielded a heavy harvest of Christian leaders.
Allegra Jordan: What does “Christian” mean?
Thankfully, we don’t have to answer that question by ourselves.
Kim Seidman: A Couch-to-5K for leaders
Starting a new ministry is not unlike hoisting oneself off the couch to exercise for the first time. Here are some rules.
N.T. Wright: Working on a building
Institutions are essential to the church’s mission, but they are not reality, Wright says. They are merely the scaffolding and plumbing that make possible the building called community.
Christopher L. Heuertz: Vocations of hope
How do we do more than protest against our adversaries? How do we find a vocation that really found us first?