For the second time in less than a year, Azusa Pacific University has announced it is lifting its ban on homosexual relationships, this time with approval from its Board of Trustees.

Some of the most effective ministry lessons are learned from mistakes and in-the-trenches ministry experiences. If you are new in ministry, here are some tips from someone with 20 full-time years of kids ministry experience to help you avoid pitfalls and burnout in ministry.

Gospel advancement cannot be divorced from the power of prayer. Nor should prayer be divorced from the need for gospel advancement regionally, nationally and internationally.

The fastest shrinking category in American religion is still the largest category—people who self-identify as Christian, but whose religion is not a central part of their lives. We call these people nominal Christians.

"You only have to be in your 20s to realize how much things have changed in the last decade."

"The kitchen table and living room are perhaps the best places for this discussion."

So what are you looking for? Certainly gifts and abilities are a factor, but second only to character. And what are we looking for in terms of character?

Though we may never know what Paul’s “thorn in the flesh” was, this seems to be a reasonable explanation for it...