I try to keep the mgpc website fresh by visiting other websites and stealing borrowing and tweaking features I like. Over time websites have become more streamlined and now assume that people know how to use them. Trevin Wax and Mikey Lynch offer some observations: Wax provides five ‘essentials’ for church websites. (and I know …

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A local church can be described in one of three ways: Movement, Monument or Mausoleum. (To which one of the commenters on Ortlund’s post adds a fourth: Memory) And there’s always a momentum, fueled by the hearts of the humans who are part of that church, which will seek to move it from the first …

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I try to ration my Paul Tripp posts, but they’re all so helpful. In this post from the Gospel Coalition, he addresses the danger of being so mired in ministry activity that pastors stop short of experiencing the constructive and restoring power of the Gospel when we have experienced the destructive power of conflict, attacks …

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