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Any gifted communicator can tell you what you should be doing. A great pastor journeys alongside you as you seek to do it together.

We must prepare our teenagers by speaking forthrightly about the temptations that await them after high school. We must help them be on their guard and learn how to be fully “armored up” with the spiritual protection that Jesus provides every believer (Ephesians 6:11).

Why We Must Depend on the Promises of God in Difficult Times

Periodically take a solo retreat. Occasionally I’ve taken a night and a day at a local retreat center. I’m usually the only one there. When I go, I think, pray, plan, write, and study. Those periodic getaways refresh my soul and help break me from the rigors of ministry, resetting my focus to respond appropriately to the stresses ministry brings.

As the church, we are responsible for telling the most important story in human history.

Reaching a Demographic Many Churches Are Missing

Here is why the church exists: for the glorification of God, the edification of the saints, and the evangelization of the world. In other words, for 'upward, inward, and outward" purposes.

What I needed was one-on-one instruction from a mentor. The classroom classes on preaching did not work for me. I was too much of a rebel, I’m thinking, looking back. Too determined not to make my sermons sound like everyone else’s.