If you’re looking to expand your influence as a staff pastor, I have exciting news for you! Over the past week, my team released a brand new resource just for staff members where you will discover the 7 most important principles to reigniting your passion for your church and your ministry and increasing your value and effectiveness to the rest … Read More
On the Gathering of God’s People
“To gather God’s people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life as prayer.” -Martin Luther
Top 50 Worst Countries for Christians
Today’s guest blog comes to us from Sarah Eekhoff Zylstra for Christianity Today. 2014 was the world’s worst year for the persecution of Christians in the modern era. Until 2015 surpassed it. The 2016 World Watch List (WWL) from Open Doors analyzes how African countries now outnumber Mideast countries on the list, affecting far more Christians numerically (though not as severely). Christian … Read More
Created for Another World
“If I find in myself desires which nothing in this world can satisfy, the only logical explanation is that I was made for another world.” – C.S. Lewis
Remembering Study Bible Scholar Charles C. Ryrie (1925-2016)
Today’s guest post comes to us from David S. Dockery for Baptist Press News. David is the president of Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Deerfield, Illinois. Earlier this week I heard the news that Charles Caldwell Ryrie, well-known evangelical and baptistic theologian and longtime faculty member at Dallas Theological Seminary, had passed from this life into the presence of Christ (Philippians … Read More
Don’t Miss Out! 2016 Maximizing Easter Seminar Goes Back in the Vault TODAY!
Easter is just 5 Sundays away (yes it’s earlier this year!) and you need to begin preparing NOW if this is going to be the best Easter ever at your church. I want to do all I can to help you DOUBLE your church’s impact this Easter – to help you fully cooperate with God to reach and keep as … Read More
Spurgeon on God’s Army
“The Lord gets his best soldiers out of the highlands of affliction.” – Charles Spurgeon
Avoiding Burnout
Today’s guest blog comes to us from Matt Perman for Christianity Today/Leadership Journal. Matt is former director of strategy at Desiring God and is author of the new book What’s Best Next: How the Gospel Transforms the Way. I know a pastor whose congregation expected him to treat his email like the phone, constantly monitoring it and responding immediately whenever something … Read More
McGavran Monday – Self-supporting Ministry
In honor of Dr. Gary McIntosh’s new biography of Donald McGavran, here’s today’s Monday moment: “Rapid discipling of entire tribes should be accompanied by an even more rapid production of an indigenous, self-supporting ministry.” – Donald McGavran Secure your copy of the book at 40% OFF plus insightful bonuses here. (the above quote is from p. 113 of The Bridges … Read More
An Interview with Gardner C. Taylor: Remembering One of America’s Best Preachers
Today’s guest blog comes to us in the form of an interview conducted in 1981 by Terry Muck and Paul Robbins for Leadership Magazine. In a 1979 story, Time magazine described Gardner C. Taylor as one of the seven best preachers in America. Yet Taylor, pastor of the 10,000-member Concord Baptist Church of Christ in Brooklyn, admits preaching has never been … Read More