Catalyst Articles

How can we ensure that we are spending our life on what counts? To be busy with what matters we need to live by a set of greater commitments. 

Each year, the holidays shepherd in the busiest season of ministry for church leaders.

We are whole beings, easily influenced by the small decisions we make that design our daily environment.

Seen in this light, a calling that brightens the eyes of God doesn’t necessitate one quitting their job as a barista at some coffee company and running to seminary to get trained for “real work.” Instead, we need to ask how can we redeem our labors behind the cash register.

After much conversation, listening, and friendly debating, the Catalyst team has compiled a list of the 11 podcasts every church leader should listen to.

Christ doesn’t just command us to be unified. While on earth, He showed us how to build communities knit together by a deep sense of belonging.

How long has it been since you felt a level of contagious, infectious, unflappable, unstoppable happiness?

Competition’s role is to sort people in an order of value. But the work of the Church is to be fueled by humility, the ability to forget the self.

Grace is the water that our lives long for. We desire it. We’re thirsty for it and in desperate need of it.

Being open-handed with wealth is an important marker of spiritual maturity and all of us should be generous with our money. But there are other important ways young leaders can live radically generous lives.

If we look at the life of Jesus we will see a man pressed, yet at peace. How was he able to combat anxiety in the midst of the most demanding call to ministry known to mankind?

What parts of yourself do you miss that you use to be when the worries were less and the adventures were greater?