In this excerpt, pastor and author Brad Edwards shows readers what makes church, church and calls Christians to examine their individualism and leave it outside the threshold of the sanctuary.

In this excerpt, pastor and author Seth Lewis shows readers the appropriate response to discovering the majesty of being made in God’s image is to respond to him in worship.

In this excerpt, pastor and author Jeremy Writebol challenges readers to make it their life’s ambition to share the gospel with all those around them.

In this adapted excerpt, pastor and author Josh Hayden shows readers the potential profit of “burying our preferences” for the sake of our shared mission.

In this excerpt, pastor and author Ray Ortlund extends the good news of the gospel to sinners lying at rock bottom, reminding readers that “…we will find such an astonishing hope nowhere else.”

In this excerpt, author Luke Cawley describes the cost of forgiveness as Jesus “bears the weight of reconciliation on his own shoulders so that our evasion, hostility, and all the accumulated grime of the years no longer need to come between us and God.”a

In this excerpt, pastor and author Dwayne R. Bond tells a story of how a church’s hospitality and care lead to the Lord’s work of salvation.

Most churches don’t have a motivation problem; they have a mobilization problem. This excerpt from The Nehemiah Way by John H. Wilson and Amy Lynch tells the stories that motivated them to write this book.

In this excerpt, pastor and author Jeremy Linneman shows readers the difference between “approaching God as merely a strong and powerful and compassionate God and approaching him first and foremost as our Father.”

In this excerpt, bestselling author, national speaker, and ministry leader Elyse M. Fitzpatrick reminds readers, “Everything that needed to be done to deserve God’s blessing has already been done” in Christ.

People all around us—even those looking back at us in the mirror—are searching for an identity. In this excerpt from Chris Morphew’s book Worth It, he shows Christians that our most foundational identity is in the very love of God.

Ministry is a team effort, and we are all involved. We need to minister to each other. That is what it means to be part of the body of Christ.