Coming Back From Decline to Church Spiritual Growth
You must focus not on what is missing but instead on what matters: the person in front of you and the community that needs your church to experience church spiritual growth from decline.
Books
How to Develop Fervency and Compassion in Your Prayer Life
I needed divine help to motivate my prayer life. I discovered that we must first confess the following truth, as unflattering as it is: Lord, I confess that in and of myself, I do not really care about anybody but myself. Developing fervency and compassion in prayer requires acknowledging this self-centeredness.
National Back to Church Sunday: Free Resources and More
Get free resources to help your church invited the community to church for National Back to Church Sunday.
Pastoring Through Times of Loss
Often, when people face a significant loss, it shakes their faith, leading to spiritual dissonance where their beliefs about God are challenged by painful reality. Pastoring through spiritual dissonance requires understanding this unique challenge.
Making Sense of the Sermon on the Mount
If the Sermon on the Mount is part of the larger structure and progression in Matthews Gospel, then we cant make understanding the Sermon on the Mount about something other than what the rest of the book is about. Matthew is clearly not about a legalistic summons to earn your way into heaven.
Kevin DeYoung
When we sign up to follow Jesus, are we signing up for a lifetime of frustration?
5 Ways to Deal with Rebellious People
You may be leading a rebellious people, much like Moses did, but you can either obey God or surrender to the sinful nature by lashing out and fighting with others inside the church. Learn 5 ways to deal with rebellious people effectively.
Raising Children in Wisdom
If we agree that we want our children to accomplish their purposes and enjoy this full, abundant life, then the path of wisdom is the way. But what do I mean by wisdom in raising children in wisdom?
How and When to Memorize Scripture
No matter what method you use for memorizationnotecards, apps, the first letter method, writing or listening to the Word, or reciting it in the showerrepetition will be a necessary ingredient for how to memorize scripture.
Free to Fail
We dont live by faith by reading a rule book, or following a map, or working through a career development program. We do not begin with things, or pieces of paper, or ideas, or feelings, or deeds, or successes. Anyone who has learned the first thing about freedom to fail prefers to fail with Peter than to succeed with Judas.
