We prefer to skip the long, hard road of daily discipleship for the quick jolt of a transformational experience. I call it Defibrillator Discipleship.

In the partnership between churches and missionaries, one party needs to take the lead role in making the relationship work. Often that role is foisted onto the missionary, but the ideal strategy is for the church to take the lead. Here are three ways that churches can take the lead role in missions.

On one side of a table sits a man in deep crisis. He just lost everything, from his entire family to his possessions. We’ll call …

It was a time of pressure for my wife and me. My evenings were filled with classwork, our small children demanded constant attention from my wife throughout the day, and challenges in the ministry weighed on us and occupied much of our conversation. It was the perfect storm for burnout and disillusionment.

As the gender wars have raged in surrounding culture, many churches have responded by putting special emphasis on teaching “biblical manhood and womanhood.” But something unexpected has happened in the process. As we have talked more and more about “womanhood,” we have talked less and less about other equally vital doctrines.

Rather than try impossibly to live in a perpetual high, what if we embraced divine purpose in the cycle of changing emotions we experience?

Before reviewing Dave Ramsey’s Financial Peace University (FPU), let me describe myself first: I’ve read The Total Money Makeover and Complete Guide to Money. As …

The missionary who helps local Christians fulfill their ministries in a Biblical way will never have to worry about what will happen to the ministry after he leaves the field. It will continue in the capable of hands of local leadership.

Brian Collins reviews The Life and Letters of John Albert Broadus and Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 1859-2009.

It caught me one morning without any warning. I should have been jubilant. But now, unexpectedly, I felt empty and listless. After pouring my entire life into one goal for two years, I completely lost motivation when my goal was achieved.