Did you miss it? I’ve been doing a survey on volunteer challenges and I’d like to get your feedback. It’s a brief 45-second survey – www.ChurchLeaderInsights.com/volunteersurvey As a thank you, I’ll send you my brand new E-Book on recruiting volunteers: EIGHT BIBLICAL PRINCIPLES FOR RECRUITING NEW VOLUNTEERS: Miss Any of These and You’ll Always Lack Volunteers ($29.95 Value, yours FREE). … Read More
New E-Book on Recruiting Volunteers – Get Your FREE Copy!
It happens every week. You try to recruit as many volunteers as possible so that you can have the greatest impact possible. Some people jump at the opportunity to volunteer and others get that ‘deer in the headlight’ look, shocked that you would ask. As a pastor, it seems like I’ve heard every excuse in the book as to why … Read More
Six Popular Fictitious Pastors
Today’s guest blog comes to us from Adam Marshall for Christianity Today. Adam’s article highlights the most popular – and mostly fictitious – portrayals of ministry. We should hardly be surprised to find ministers serving, preaching, praying, and leading in the stories we watch, listen to, and read. After all, art imitates life, and pastors are deeply engaged in the … Read More
C.S. Lewis on a Good Rule for Reading
“It is a good rule, after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an old one in between. If that is too much for you, you should at least read one old one to every three new ones.” – C.S. Lewis
William Tyndale on the Church
“The Church is the one institution that exists for those outside it.” -William Tyndale
Becoming a Global Christian and Developing Your Heart for the Lost
Today’s guest post comes to us from Karen Coleman for Eternal Perspectives with Randy Alcorn. Karen and her family spent 23 years in Cameroon, West Africa doing missions work. It might come as a surprise to some, but if you do a Bible search for the words “mission” or “missionary”, you aren’t going to find much. To understand the role of … Read More
From one pastor to another…
Kerrick Thomas is a pastor and friend of mine who has learned first-hand how to manage personal crisis and church leadership. Over the last year, he has experienced crisis in his own life: The tragic loss of his mom in a fire . . . then less than a week later his wife having reconstructive surgery on her ankle that left … Read More
A.W. Tozer on Protecting the Church
“The church that is not jealously protected by mighty intercession and sacrificial labors will before long become the abode of every evil bird and the hiding place for unsuspected corruption. The creeping wilderness will soon take over that church that trusts in its own strength and forgets to watch and pray.” -A.W. Tozer
Charles Spurgeon on “Lukewarm” Churches
“I do not think the devil cares how many churches you build, if only you have lukewarm preachers and people in them.” – Charles Spurgeon
R.A. Torrey on Prayer
“The one who expects God to do as he asks Him, must on his part do whatever God bids him.” -R.A. Torrey