Coaching can be a daunting task, especially if you’ve never been coached yourself. However, with God’s grace and help, and a little bit of coaching guidance, you can help those around you transform the dreams God has placed on their hearts into reality.

Like Bruno of Disney's 2021 animated feature, many of us still don't really know how to talk about what we feel, discern and are experiencing in this new "Post-Covid” reality. A renewed focus on mental health has helped some get the necessary care they need, but as a collective of culture it seems most of us are simply just trying to move on. We struggle to know how to talk about what is really happening at large in our culture's "zeitgeist".

Lurking in the shadows of many well intended church programs is the belief that this parable represents an outdated model. Simple proclamation and demonstration of the power of the gospel in our communities simply is seen as "not for today" amongst other modern ideas. The problem with this ideology is that you will not find it in the ministry of Jesus.

Dave Farris is a rural pastor who has been led on a unique path in ministry. He leads a missional, micro church network in what many might consider an unlikely place: rural Virginia.

Almost every ministry leader we speak with longs to do more than simply grow their ministry bigger. Yet far more often than not as we dig into the nuts and bolts of how the ministry operates in the day-to-day, we discover that many leaders are unintentionally blocking multiplication.

As much as I believe in missional church, I’m tired of vilifying and scoffing and rolling my eyes at people who don’t.

96% of adults keep their cell phone within arm's reach every single day.

So why aren't we leveraging that to reach people with the gospel?

It’s been an exhausting season for many of us. From pastors to teachers to nurses to stay-at-home moms to construction workers, it seems like most everyone is tired.

In the midst of this weariness, Jesus’ invitation in Matthew 11 is one we need to attend to.

The call here is simple, yet profound: stop fighting to dominate culture, start tending and nurturing so that we can all live in a culture in which health, growth, and reconciliation thrive, as God intended.