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You need to read the article in its entirety, but Mark Galli has an amazing editorial on “church marketing.” We have reached church marketing at a point that’s just hard to stomach at times. Big churches, small churches, we are all guilty of trying to “market our product” and increase our “market share.” I remember a seminar my denomination put…
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In our church we have been going through our new discipleship theme: LIFE Together. LIFE represents four key areas of Christian growth and we want to spend our church life and energy training everyone in each of those areas. L — Loving God (being people of the Book and people of worship)I — Infilling of the Spirit (being people who…
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A little fun in my crazy world of learning a new job… On another blog I read about a personality profile page. It’s kind of fun. Try it out and see what you think. Here are my results.
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Do I know Christ? Time Magazine’s newest attempt to put a spin on Christian’s who doubt is an article on Mother Theresa and her supposed “crisis of faith.” We so often chalk up people’s private questions to “crisis.” There can be doubt, but crisis? I would say that is not what marked the life of Mother Theresa. Cynics and agnostics…
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A note of encouragement from Indianapolis this week. I’m not IN Indy, but the news from the General Council of the Assemblies of God was encouraging to me. This was a year when our General Supt., Tom Trask, retired. It was a bit “controversial” because a LOT of younger ministers (they say 40 and under, but it’s more like 30…
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A note of encouragement from Indianapolis this week. I’m not IN Indy, but the news from the General Council of the Assemblies of God was encouraging to me. This was a year when our General Supt., Tom Trask, retired. It was a bit “controversial” because a LOT of younger ministers (they say 40 and under, but it’s more like 30…
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I was reading an interview with a pastor named Bob Roberts. A comment he made struck home with me, so here it is: How did church planting become important to you? Years ago, I was at a point of growing our church big. I was concerned about how fast we could get there. We relocated, and the church started going…
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You Pray Like a Girl If we all prayed like Hannah in First Samuel, that would be a compliment! In my own life it seems that much of the church today relies on praying women. I am thankful for praying women! Just one question…where are the men? We need to learn from Hannah, and pray like a girl! Men need…
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“You can enter God’s Kingdom only through the narrow gate.” Matt. 7:13, NLT Who teaches you? Whose disciple are you? You are somebody’s disciple. You learned how to live from someone else. Contrary to contemporary Western thought, we are NOT our “own person”. Who has discipled you over your lifetime? One of the major transitions in life is to recognize…
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The Vitality of the Word of God Psalm 19:7-14 One of the most important ways for me to stay equipped as a leader is to make sure my core values are strong. If my core values are in tact, then I discover purpose in my life. From purpose will flow vision and mission. Who God is and who I am…
