I was in my fifth year of ministry and second year at a new church. My wife and I had been married for four years and had a 2-year-old daughter. The ministry was growing, we had been able to hire another staff ...

Rock Solid VolunteersMotivation 2: Families Involved Together"Therefore I stationed some of the people behind the lowest points of the wall at the exposed places, posting them by families, with their swords, sp...

I've finished reading Love Wins by Rob Bell and gave myself some time to think it over. I wanted to drop my thoughts on here, simply because some people have asked what I think about it.Rob does a great job of ...

This article first appeared in print journal Jan./Feb. 1998. One of the biggest buzzes in Hollywood isn't about the newest multimillion dollar superstar or the latest high-profile celebrity divorce or even the...

Too often, attempts to create wholesome movies that are appropriate for the whole family leave viewers rolling their eyes and wondering why moral, value-based media depicts characters as being hokey and trite. ...

My vision and dream for what church can and should be come from my memory of Long Beach Christian Reformed Church where I grew up. Time and distance from that setting probably give me a bit of an overly optimis...

Youth workers across the country have a common dream--that their students will be passionate about their faith and will be talking about it with their friends who don't know Christ. It's no secret that this is ...

Homemade Haunting Rob Stennett Genres: Speculative fiction, Suspense Zondervan, 2011, paperback, 304 pp., $14.99 ISBN: 9780310321927 Charlie Walker doesn't believe in God or the supernatural. But Charl...

YWJ: In the past you have been Mr. Emergent-guy. What's your main passion/calling/role right now, and what's your ongoing involvement with the emergent movement (either narrowly or broadly understood)?Brian McL...

Love Wins, Rob Bell's new book, is generating debate and sales. Much of the debate is based on incomplete info (such as the book's brief promo video). So we journeyed into the web and blogosphere to retrieve in...