This month's special edition of Catalyst Monthly features articles from our latest small group resource, The Catalyst GroupZine Volume 2: The Culture Issue. We've picked out a few of our staff favorites for your reading enjoyment. While it's just a sample of the rich, relevant, and visually innovative articles you'll find inside the GroupZine, we hope it will spark your interest and conversations within your community.

David Hodges is a 27 year old Grammy Award Winning musician from Los Angeles, California. He joined a band called Evanescence in 1999. They made a demo in an apartment in Little Rock, Arkansas that landed them a record deal a year later. The record took off beyond all their expectations. Since leaving Evanescence, David has started a band called Trading Yesterday which recently released their debut album "More Than This." In this true story from the Catalyst Groupzine 2: The Culture Issue, David shares his insights on his faith, how he engages culture, and embraces community.

Have you ever been driving and had what you thought was a revolutionary idea? Has an idea for a new venture ever kept you up at night planning and dreaming? Have you ever created a product in your mind that you knew could influence the standard of living for millions of people? What did you do about it? In this article Scott Greene, youth pastor and creator of Two Weeks Back (www.twoweeksback.com) shares how he has learned to tell the difference between "good ideas" and "God ideas."

The church is supposed to be a place that gives evidence to the resurrection power of Jesus Christ; where people find new life and hope. It's supposed to overcome death and destruction not submit to it. Though churches are in possession of the most profound, exciting, needed, and life changing truth the world has ever known, many of them present this truth in a way that's superficial and boring. In this excerpt from the upcoming book, Change Your Church for Good - The Art of Sacred Cow Tipping, pastor and author Brad Powell explains that even the most irrelevant, boring, dying church can become relevant and revitalized. But to do so, they must change - which is never easy.

We can spend our whole lives trying to satisfy the one insatiable part of our being, our soul craving. Our capacity for spiritual experience both proves our need for something greater than ourselves and leaves us wanting when we fill it with anything but God. In this article based on his new book, Soul Cravings, Erwin McManus reminds us that Jesus calls us to follow Him and experience nothing less than life and life beyond measure.

Went on a Greek Orthodox pilgrimage in Northern England and Ireland, and stopped at Durham Cathedral. The churches are built in "geometry of love." Noticed that the towers of the cathedral looked like the towers of the castle right across from the cathedral - were those that built Durham Cathedral fueling …

There is value in story-telling. Each of us has a story to tell.Kevin's story - Kevin grew up with three brothers. His alcoholic parents moved everywhere and periodically abandoned them. On one occasion, his mom left them for five days. One of his brothers uses a neighbors phone to call their …

God is sending us out to announce that the Kingdom of God is near, not that we have a cool church.Let's change the conversation from "the church let me down" to "Here's the way that God has empowered and inspired me to pick up the work of the church and carry …