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Learning to Be Your Own Friend: A Counter-Cultural Path to Kingdom Living

By Rebecca Jo Caputo In a world that often tells us to hustle harder, push through pain, and...

Storytelling Discipleship: A Practical Way to Build a Thriving Spiritual Community

By Jen Strokhorb  A picture might be worth a thousand words, but a good story is a thousand words...

Untangling Twisted Teachings: A Journey to Joy and Identity

by Jennifer Cochrane  At 45, I began the painful but freeing process of learning to live from the...

Creating an Oasis of Peace in an Imperfect Church Community

By Terri Sullivant  I have always loved these verses in Psalm 107 (NIV):  29 He stilled the...

Overcoming Church Hurt: Learn to Discern

By Terri Sullivant  “But solid food is for the mature, for those who have their powers of...

Fortifying Your Ministry Against Church Hurt

By Hannah Ploegstra  When church leaders get hurt there is often no one for them to blame or run...

The Difference Between Church Hurt and Spiritual Abuse

By Hannah Ploegstra God clearly uses pain for our good – but then, trauma can also cripple us for...

Forgiveness & Church Hurt Part 2

By Michael Sullivant In the popular series, The Chosen, the writers depict some significant...

Forgiveness & Church Hurt Part 1

By Jim Wilder If forgiveness means saying, “That’s OK” to things that aren’t OK then none of us...

When Church Hurts: Healing, Resilience, and Rediscovering Community

By Claudia Hendricks For many years the ideas of complex trauma and church were not associated...

Let's Talk Church Hurt

What is Church Hurt?  Church hurt occurs when someone experiences emotional, spiritual,...

Joyfully Unofficial Elders

by Michael Sullivant  Some years back my wife, Terri, and I entered what I like to call our...

Elder Leadership: Priorities for Thriving Communities

By Barbara Moon Elders look after their community. Elders are in the stage of life where...

Part 2: What Gen Z Needs from Elders

By Hannah Ploegstra Gen Z is a delightful generation whose collective history has set them up...

Part 1: Why Gen Z Needs Elders

By Hannah Ploegstra    The people who are now on deck to be the next elders in our...

Becoming an Extra Parent

By Dr. Karen Struble, Clinical Psychologist  In recent years the number of Western-world...

Flexible Diligence & Parenting

By Michael Sullivant One of the skills we are meant to learn during the parent stage of...

"I have called you friends" - Mutually Satisfying Relationships and Adult Maturity

By Joca & Joel Prudhomme Jesus calls us His friends. This is an incredible thought, not...

More Than Our Momentary Failures: Lessons from Parenting in the Child Stage

By Joel and Joca Prudhomme  Before having children, I was sure that I would be a great dad. What...

Child Maturity – Learning What Truly Satisfies

Child Maturity – Learning What Truly Satisfies    Have you ever been hungry, and...
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