Author Archives: pp

Remember Death: The Surprising Path to Living Hope
By Matthew McCullough

Life-expectancy worldwide is twice what it was a hundred years ago.  And because of modern medicine, many of us don’t often see death up close.  That makes it easy to live as if death is someone else’s problem.  It isn’t.

Ignoring the certainty of death doesn’t protect us from feeling its effects throughout the lives we’re living now.  But this avoidance can hold us back from experiencing the powerful, everyday relevance of Jesus’s promises to us.  (more…)

Fake Or Follower
By Andi Andrew

We live in a culture where many identify as “Christian” without fully embracing what it looks like to follow Jesus day-in and day-out.  After gathering on a Sunday, do we simply go about our business, void of true transformation?  Is the gospel simply a self-help tool, the church just a place where our needs can be met?  It’s time to ask ourselves, “Am I really following Jesus?  Or am I just faking it?”

With eye-opening personal stories, Scripture, and thought-provoking (more…)

The Prodigal Prophet
By Timothy Keller

Most people, even those who are nonreligious, are familiar with the book of Jonah: a rebellious prophet defies God and is swallowed by a whale.  Less familiar to most people is the second half of this Biblical story – what happens after Jonah is released from the belly of the fish.  Yet it is in this second half of the story that one of the most powerful and important lessons of the Bible is hidden.  (more…)

Quit Church
By Chris Sonksen

Let’s face it.  Church isn’t working.  We hear sermons about the abundant life Jesus promised, but how many of us are actually living it?  How many of our churches are thriving?  How many people in our congregations are experiencing God’s blessings?  Maybe it’s time to call it quits.

Quit church?  Well, not exactly.  (more…)

The Passion Generation
By Grant Skeldon with Ryan Casey Waller

Millennials have disrupted almost every major industry.  Whether you’re a parent trying to raise them, a pastor trying to reach them, or an employer trying to retain them, they’re disruptive.  As the largest living generation, millennials are one of the most studied but misunderstood groups of our day.  And the chasm between the generations is only getting wider.

Speaker and founder of the Initiative Network Grant Skeldon (more…)

Now That I’m Called
By Kristen Padilla

As a woman in the church, it’s difficult to know what it means to say “I’m called to ministry.”  Whether you have been wrestling with that calling for years or are just starting to ask what it means, Now That I’m Called will provide you with guidance and direction on your journey.  Perhaps you are feeling the Holy Spirit leading you toward vocational ministry but are unsure of what that means or if you are hearing the voice of the Lord correctly.  This book will help you (more…)