4 Compelling Reasons to Share with Your Congregation About Serving In Children’s Ministry
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Has Busyness Made Your Life Barren?
Busyness can make life barren.
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The Surprising Joy of Daily Struggle
Practice every day? For one year?
“No,” most of us will respond. Whatever it is, “I don’t want to, I don’t have to, and you...
Laying Aside the Earthly; Get Ready.
“For we know that if the earthly tent which is our house is torn down, we have a building from God, a house not...
11 Things a Pastor’s Kid May Be Thinking
I am the daughter of a pastor. I'm also friends with many other pastor’s kids. Once a pastor’s kid, always a pastor’s kid. If you're a...
3 Ways Gospel Centrality Shapes Our Everyday Lives
Written by: Newton Chilingulo
Newton, his wife Vanessa, and their three children live in Lilongwe, Malawi. He leads Reformation Bible Church, a gospel-driven, Christ-centered church. Newton’s...
Living with a Perspective
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5 Leadership Lessons from a Waterfall Climb
We were in Ocho Rios, Jamaica and signed up for the 1,000 ft. waterfall climb (Dunn’s River Falls), set in the beautiful and natural...
10 Ways Pastors Can Escape the Ministry Stress Zombie Zone
In a previous post I discussed how ministry stress can sometimes make pastors feel like zombies: listless, unmotivated, and mentally distracted. Many of you took the...
On Finding Yourself In a Burning Building or Sinking Ship.
“Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought you to be…” (2 Peter 3:11)
The issue of faith–to believe...
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