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Pastoring in a Pandemic: Real-Life Reflections
The Time Is Now for Breakthrough
Leaning into God’s Shelter
Ecclesiology in this Weird Time of Social Distancing
Understanding Holy Saturday in the Midst of a Pandemic
The Blessing of Sufficiency Through Self-Denial
How to Have a Maundy Thursday Liturgy at Home
No Palms? A Liturgy of Houseplants for Palm Sunday
Our New Reality: Holy Week at Home
The Practice of Remembering our Death
A Saving Practice Amid a Heavy Lenten Season
On Leading During a Pandemic
Practicing Abundance in an Age of Anxiety
Playfulness as an Antidote to Anxiety
Practicing Hope When Our Hearts Are Troubled
Our Need for Lament
A Practice as Lent Begins: Giving from our Poverty
Preaching “the Black Stuff”
The Dance of Deference: Thoughts on Unity
The Art of Grieving: A Spiritual Practice for our Time
Ten Hopes and Prayers for the Next Ten Years
When Mondays are the Pits: Four Practices to Nourish Your Soul
Sermons Aren’t Everything
The Difference Between Christian Institutions and the Kingdom
Tremble this Advent
Four Ways to Practice the Peace of Christ at Christmas
Watching and Walking with Those in the Darkness
Liberated by Perfect Love
Meeting God in our Deepest Places
Discipleship as Brain-Building
A Risky Opportunity for Discipleship
Four Surprising Habits for Christian Formation
The Introverted Missional
When Ministry Isn’t What You Expect
The Impact of Western Ego on the Church
Avoiding Leadership Inferiority Complex
Dear Church: Your Mission Isn’t to Attract Millennials
Rediscovering the Natural Church
Faith Without Emotion is Dead: Avoiding False Choices When Leaders Fall
Prophets vs. Pimps: The Tension of Spirit-Led Leadership
Managing the Dangers of Chronic Anxiety
How Anxiety So Easily Entangles Us
The Flip Side of Longing
Addressing the Elephant in the Church: Seven Necessary Components of Integrated Discipleship
The Economy is Making Many Jobs Obsolete—How Churches Can Be Different
The Poway Synagogue Shooting – We Should All be Surprised by the Surprise
Miracles in the Headlines
How to Move Your Preaching from “Completion of a Task” to “An Act of Love”
The Parable of the White Pastor
Young Leaders: Here Are 10 Ways to “Lead Up” for Reconciliation and Racial Justice
Thinking Differently About Rest: What Communities of Color Can Teach the Church
Identity Politics and the False Self
The Great Vigil: The Best Liturgical Practice You’ve Never Heard Of
What’s the Difference Between Healthy Self-Denial and Unhealthy Self-Destruction?
5 Timely Conversations You Don’t Want to Miss at Awakenings
The Spiritual Practice of Shutting Up
A Surprisingly Simple Spiritual Discipline for Restoring the Soul
The Music We Need For Lent
One Place You Can Go to Recover from the Noise of Ministry’s Demands
