The Spirituality of Major Gift Fundraising

My guess is that you or some of your colleagues in the field are thinking, “What the heck are these guys talking about now?” “Spirituality and Major Gift Fundraising?” What’s this all about? Okay, I get it. Today when youRead more…

Generosity Exercises

The excellent ‘Generosity Exercises’ book by Gary Hoag invites Christians to explore passages in three sections: (1) the Old Testament, (2) the Gospels, and (3) the rest of the New Testament, the world of the Early Church. This format helpsRead more…

Gaining His Favor: God loves leaders too.

Gaining His Favor On many occasions, I have pointed leaders to the passage in the Bible where John the Baptist is baptizing Jesus. The heavens open and there is a spiritual happening with audio where God’s voice was heard toRead more…

Barriers To Godly Leadership

What are some of the most common barriers that keep leaders from finishing well. If we are aware now, we can be on the alert for the trap that is designed for us personally. In the Arrow Leadership Program, leadersRead more…

Rediscovering The Gospel Of Reconciliation

Editor’s Note: This Cape Town 2010 Advance Paper has been written by Antoine Rutayisire as an overview of the topic to be discussed at the Morning Plenary session on “Building the Peace of Christ in our Divided and Broken World.”Read more…

Missionary Spirituality Part 2

Follow up from my last post. As a missionary, “What has been your greatest spiritual struggle?”

Missionary Spirituality

I am a new user so I hope I am doing this correctly. I didn’t find my topic anywhere on the website. As a missionary involved in member care, I am concerned about assumptions organizations and churches make about theRead more…

Sowing Subversion In The Field Of Relativism

Globalization and migration have brought religious pluralism—something that Asians have lived with for millennia—to the West. Singaporean theologian Mark Chan mines his experience as an Asian believer to help Christians everywhere evangelize those who have been blinded by the fallaciesRead more…

Spirituality of Fundraising

By way of introduction, I want to say that fund raising, if you think about it from the perspective of the Gospel, is not a response to a crisis. Fund raising is first of all, a form of ministry.Read more…