Pastors
Overwhelming Leadership Muscles for Development
You cannot grow physical muscles without the muscles being overwhelmed. Your muscles need resistance and challenges to grow. The same is true for leadership muscles.
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The Second Coming – 4 Lessons From Parable of the Bridesmaids
Using the parable of the bridesmaids Jesus Himself instructed us to “keep awake” and be aware of the signs of the times.
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An Eternal Perspective Brings Us Great Comfort in Grief
Our grief has an expiration date. The world as it is now is under the curse, but God will lift it once and for all: “No longer will there be any curse” (Revelation 22:3). No more sin. No more cancer. No more dementia. No more suffering. No more death.
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Leaders Can’t Avoid Conflict—It’s How You Handle It That Matters
Conflict is inevitable but divisiveness is avoidable. How we handle human conflict determines whether the outcome is unity or division.
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The Rise of Cultural Christianity
The nature of cultural Christianity is not hard to grasp. Consider that in the U.K. only 1% attend a Church of England service, yet 46.2% describe themselves as Christian.
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God Doesn’t Believe Our Convenient Excuses
The convenient excuses are usually big picture things: "The church is full of hypocrites,” I protested. It allowed me to remain in isolation. I thought they were convenient excuses, merely to get my way, but God wasn't buying them.
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Praying in Jesus’ Name
It is altogether possible for believers to close their prayer with the words "in Jesus' name" or “in Christ’s name” or “for Christ’s sake” as a sort of mindless mantra.
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Creativity Isn’t a Threat to the Truth—It’s an Opportunity for It To Shine Through
Of these two things you can be certain—nay, three: death, taxes, and a raging debate among preachers at the release of each new season of "The Chosen."
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7 Reasons Why Monthly Church Business Meetings Are Dying
Less than one-third of American Protestant churches have these monthly meetings. That is an incredible decline hardly noted by many pundits.
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Remembering Persecuted Christians on 9/11
Twenty-three years after the attacks of Sept. 11, the rise in Christian persecution is unprecedented. Its scope and frequency are alarming.
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How To Wisely Help Your Team Learn
Wise leaders curate skillfully what they ask those they lead to read because "what develops us, changes us."
