5 Truths to Help Lead Pastors Serve Strong
What fuels passion and morale for ministry isn’t your educational background, your grace-gift of teaching, your experience as a communicator or your riveting personality—lead pastors serve strong.
What fuels passion and morale for ministry isn’t your educational background, your grace-gift of teaching, your experience as a communicator or your riveting personality—lead pastors serve strong.
Guilt and shame sting, but they need not be deadly. Although people and circumstances around us may still shame us (and it hurts), Christ can release us from its destructive power.
As we think about the importance of Bible engagement and discipleship, many readers who feel intimidated by the Bible wonder why so many own numerous Bibles, yet rarely read them?
When you have nonbelievers coming to your church who are spiritually hungry, this is a joy and one of the best kinds of healthy church development you can experience.
Faith- and non-faith-based community groups can use these performance spaces for concerts and recitals.
Speak to the culture like you're in Athens, not in Jerusalem, and expect to be scoffed at and smile sweetly back, and expect some to give us another hearing, and others to believe.
The number who claim to be neither religious nor spiritual has doubled.
The distraction of decline shapes our conversations: when we think our issue is decline or lack of resources, our discussions are usually not about God and how he moves.
James reminds us that the tongue is not easy to tame (James 3:1-12) – but still we must, what we say matters.
Dream Big: The world and too often Christians are cynical of success and big dreams. I don’t know why this is because big dreams, big visions, and grand ambitions are sprinkled throughout the Bible.