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Church leadership

“No one wears shoes”: Encouraging lessons for pastors in a secularized culture

Jim Denison, PhD

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Church leadership

Seek eternal treasure in the passionate pursuit of the pearl of great price

Mark Turman, DMin

FILE - Stacie Wood and her husband, Andy Wood, stand for a portrait on Sunday, Oct. 16, 2022, at Saddleback Church in Lake Forest, Calif. Stacie Wood, the woman pastor at the center of the Southern Baptist Convention's decision to oust Saddleback Church, has said in February 2023, she will continue to serve as a ministry leader despite her longstanding ties to the nation's largest Protestant denomination. (AP Photo/Allison Dinner, File)

Biblical living

Should women hold ministry leadership positions?

Denison Forum

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Church leadership

Why I tend to be conflict avoidant

Jim Denison, PhD

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Church leadership

Pastoring is not a spectator sport

Mark Turman, DMin

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Church leadership

How to face life’s hardest questions

Jim Denison, PhD

A woman forms her hands to make a heart shape with a football stadium in the background. © By WavebreakMediaMicro/stock.adobe.com. Both Valentine's Day and the Super Bowl can remind us of God's love.

Church leadership

What do Valentine’s Day and the Super Bowl have in common?

Jim Denison, PhD

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Church leadership

Are most pastors insecure? What it means to be a secure leader

Jay Richardson

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Church leadership

How to choose a church—or leave one

Mark Turman, DMin

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Church leadership

Pastor, should you “change your life every decade”?

Jim Denison, PhD

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Church leadership

“The greatest competitor of devotion to Jesus”

Jim Denison, PhD

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Church leadership

Pastor, do you have the faith to be courageously obscure?

Mark Turman, DMin

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Church leadership

The wrong way to resolve the tension between solitude and service

Jim Denison, PhD

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Church leadership

Providence in strange places

Jim Denison, PhD

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Church leadership

Three cultural lies too many Christians still believe

Chris Elkins

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Church leadership

Is calling this year “2023” a bit presumptuous?

Jim Denison, PhD

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Church leadership

The most unique gift: God’s comfort

Mark Turman, DMin

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Church leadership

The day my father died

Jim Denison, PhD

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Church leadership

A passion for growth

Mark Turman, DMin

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Church leadership

Obedient to the last word, open to the next

Jim Denison, PhD

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Biblical living

Three wise ways to see Christmas

Mark Turman, DMin

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The Daily Article

Two prominent pastors return to ministry: What Matt Chandler and Johnny Hunt can teach us about the role of humility and the dangers of entitlement

Ryan Denison, PhD

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Church leadership

The humbling reason Peter is my favorite apostle: A word of encouragement for preachers during Advent

Jim Denison, PhD

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Church leadership

To judge or not to judge? To tolerate or not to tolerate?

Bruce B. Miller

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