Links For the Church (8/22)

by Staff August 21, 2016

5 Ways to Lead in Ministry When Your Leaders Is Not Leading

What are we to do when we see areas in our church that need improvement, but our leaders aren't pushing towards change? Eric Geiger gives us five ways to "lead when your leader is not leading."

If Women Can't Have It All, Can Men?

Courtney Reissig clarifies that "having it all" isn't just a problem for women. "Men and women are both regularly confronted with the reality of their humanness when it comes up against their ambition, their capacity, or their season of life."

Stories are light (in a dark world)

We need stories, but not because they entertain or numb us. We need stories because they remind us of what God has done and what he is doing now. Colleen Chao encourages us to tell stories that point to God's Bigger Story.

Lord, Enlarge My Love for You

It may seem like an impossible task to love God when our hearts are so prone to do the opposite. The good news is that "God wants to enlarge our capacity for joy-filled love for him." We should ask, as Jon Bloom exhorts, for more of God, "whatever it takes."