Maybe it's not just a matter of poor leadership and weary volunteers yearning to go home…

Good discussions don't just happen. Here's how one leader started out and failed--but through trial and error discovered what makes discussion work.

One man's experience of the first few years after seminary--mortification and edification.

Good leadership is a limited resource that must be carefully nurtured and renewed. David McKenna advocates a great idea that could go far toward eliminating leadership frustration, waste, and break-down.

Lay counseling accomplishes many things: it involves members in the work of the church, it provides a fulfilling ministry for lay persons, it takes a load off the pastor. It also solves people's problems.

Ted Engstrom shares five books that are helping him in ministry.

Motivation begins when goals and feelings are skillfully blended together.

Motivation is like a superstructure that can quickly collapse unless it is built upon a strong base of vital ideas.

Six Christian leaders share their ideas on developing motivated staff members.

With deep concern Norman Shawchuck asks, Are you a people shrinker?

Howard Hendricks offers some practical suggestions for evaluating local church ministry.

He watched his dreams crumble at Circle Church. Did that failure invalidate his ministry?

Conflict. Crisis. The corporate church often does not see its own power to make and destroy its servants.

Can people who are vastly different really learn to love one another? How can a caring fellowship be built upon such differences?