Congregational Care

Articles Bullies in the Church
- By Todd Outcalt
- Posted on March 18th, 2013
Because my wife is a middle-school principal, I often hear stories about the school bullies. In fact, bullying has become a major point of conversation in the past decade, and…
Articles Review: Leadership that Fits Your Church
- By Eric Van Meter
- Posted on March 11th, 2013
Finding a good match between pastor and congregation is one of the great difficulties of all Christian denominations, regardless of the polity under which they operate…
Articles The Gift of Encouragement
- By Marjorie Thompson
- Posted on March 5th, 2013
As ordinary mortals, even the most persistent optimists among us become discouraged at times. To be discouraged means to lose heart. Metaphorically and spiritually, the heart is…
Articles The Gift of Compassion
- By Becca Stevens
- Posted on February 15th, 2013
The cost of loving is grief. It is written into the fabric of creation as our temporal bodies kiss the eternal in love. We bear this cost by loving one another with gratitude and…
Articles Review: The Judas Syndrome
- By Eric Van Meter
- Posted on January 18th, 2013
With his latest book, The Judas Syndrome: Why Good People Do Awful Things, therapist and author George Simon tries to explain why people do bad things, and how to deal with the…
Articles Review: Speaking of Dying
- By Eric Van Meter
- Posted on January 7th, 2013
In a Protestant church that has outsourced its role in the dying process to the secular medical world, authors Fred Craddock, Dale Goldsmith, and Joy V. Goldsmith seek to reclaim…