Issue #275
9/6/2006
A leader's prayer life
by Rick Warren
A Christian leader is a praying leader. One of your first and most important acts as a leader is to pray. Nehemiah gives us a great example of how a leader prays. Faced with a big task, he started off depending on a big God. Here are four principles I've learned from Nehemiah's prayer that has helped me pray as a leader. [more]
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Helping your church pray on purpose
by Tom Holladay

When a church is built around God's purposes, everything is built around those purposes – including its prayer life. In this article Saddleback Teaching Pastor Tom Holladay, shares how your church can learn to pray on purpose. [more]


How to be a Christian in a Brave New World
Joni Eareckson Tada and Nigel M. de S. Cameron (Zondervan, 2006)  

This book tackles some of the most profound ethical questions facing Christians today, including stem-cell research, cloning, and genetic engineering. It draws on both cutting-edge information and life experience to help believers think through issues they can no longer ignore. This book will not only teach you about these important issues, but it will help you think through them from a biblical perspective.

 
   


"If it’s big enough to worry about, it’s big enough to pray about." - Rick Warren



"I do not pray for these alone, but also for those who will believe in Me through their word; that they all may be one, as You, Father, are in Me, and I in You." - John 17:20 (NKJV)



Five years later: 9/11 attacks show no lasting influence on Americans’ faith - According to a recent Barna survey, Americans aren't expressing their faith any differently than they were the summer before the 9/11 attacks. Barna says none of its 19 spiritual indicators are statistically different than they were at that time.
National Study on Youth and Religion - This national study on youth and religion includes all sorts of information about how youth in America practice their religious faith. The national telephone study started in 2001 and will run through 2007.
Purpose Driven HIV/AIDS Survey - Saddleback Church would like to know what your thoughts and feelings are about the Church's responsibility to respond to HIV/AIDS around the world. When you fill out the survey, you'll get a free download of one of the conference seminars from last year's Purpose Driven HIV/AIDS Conference.
Register for a Purpose Driven Church Conference in Mississippi! - Dave Holden and Chuck Wells of Lake Gregory Community Church in Crestline, Calif., will be leading a Purpose Driven Church Conference in Pascagoula, Miss. At the conference, you'll learn everything you need to know to build your church around God's eternal purposes. The first 100 people to sign up get a free copy of Rick Warren's book, The Purpose Driven Church. The conference will be held Oct. 5 and 6 at Calvary Baptist Church in Pascagoula.


HIV/AIDS won’t be stopped without churches, Warren tells religious leaders - Manda Gibson

Praying pastors needed for church growth - Chuck Lawless

How to lead a ‘winning’ prayer meeting - Cheryl Sacks

Say good-bye to your prayer ministry and ignite a prayer revolution - Alan Nelson

Michigan church’s prayer ministry helps reach community’s unchurched - Kathy Bruins

How to lead your church on a prayerwalk - Dan R. Crawford

Can a highlighter make you a better preacher? - Dave Stone

Escaping the stress trap (Part 6) - Mary Southerland



“Pray, and let God worry.” - Martin Luther

"When I pray, coincidences happen, and when I don't pray, they don't." - William Temple

"Personally, I'm less afraid now than I was before Sept. 11, because I have a greater sense of God's sovereignty. He's in control, and he has a plan for the world. Not only that, he has plans for me individually. And he loves me more than any human being ever could love me. So what's really to fear?" - 9/11 widow Lisa Beamer, in Sept./Oct. 2002 Christianity Today

"Make no small plans. For they have no power to stir humanity's blood." - Daniel Burnham, a 19th-century architect

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