- 1. Disconnected
- Three people groups the church could do a better job reaching While channel surfing recently I stumbled across a PBS special on the dos and don'ts of effective public speaking and what is required to ...
- Created on 30 April 2003
- 2. Vital Stats
- A look at what current statistics say about pastors--and about God. There's probably not a pastor in the United States who isn't familiar with--or hasn't heavily quoted--Christian pollster George Barna. ...
- Created on 28 February 2003
- 3. The Next 20 Years
- What will the coming years require of Christian leaders? Twenty years ago--in the winter of 1983--the first issue of Ministries Today (then called MINISTRIES: The Magazine for Christian Leaders) rolled ...
- Created on 31 December 2002
- 4. A Pastor's Survival Guide
- We asked some of today's most insightful leaders what it will take for pastors to navigate the waves of cultural change in coming years and not only survive-but thrive-in their ministries. One of the key ...
- Created on 31 December 2002
- 5. Pious Pythons
- Child sexual abuse by snakes posing as saints cannot be tolerated. At first, no one believed them. After all, children often make up stories. Childhood games and imaginative play are what being a kid ...
- Created on 31 October 2002
- 6. While We Slept
- A wake-up call to the church on the anniversary of Sept. 11. The memo was stamped July 10, 2001, and sent to FBI headquarters from Kenneth Williams, a well-respected agent who was part of the bureau's ...
- Created on 31 August 2002
- 7. Fatal Distraction
- Distractions can be more than a nuisance. They can kill your ministry. No wonder I have a headache. A report I just read reveals that the average consumer is slammed by 3,000 marketing messages a day. ...
- Created on 30 June 2002
- 8. Jumping Ship
- More than 19,000 pastors per year jump overboard when the seas of ministry get rough. How can we prevent this? When Titanic hit the cinema circuit in 1997, audiences around the world sat tensely in ...
- Created on 28 February 2002
- 9. A New Beginning
- Larry Huch used to be a violent man who smuggled drugs into the United States from South America. Today he and his wife, Tiz, pastor one of the fastest-growing churches in the nation and have helped hundreds ...
- Created on 09 March 2001