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Issue #301
3/7/2007
Six physical factors that affect your worship service
by Rick Warren
Your church's physical environment has a lot to do with how your guests will perceive the service. We need to do all that we can to make sure that there is nothing about our facilities that will distract people from the powerful Gospel message we want them to hear on the weekends. Here are six extremely important environmental issues to which you need to pay attention. [more]
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Getting the unchurched from the ‘street to the seat’ this Easter
by Kerry Mackey

Kerry Mackey, Saddleback's membership pastor, wants to encourage you to think about the totality of your guests' Easter experience – from the “streets to the seat” – this year. It's not enough just to get people to come to your services this Easter. You want them to come back the next week! [more]

Bishop of Rwanda
John Rucyahana (Word, 2007)  

This may be one of the most important books you'll ever read. Written by an extraordinary Christian leader in the nation of Rwanda, it tells an amazing story of how a country ravaged by hatred learned to forgive and how the Church played a leading role in making that happen. You'll not only find out more about how God is healing Rwanda, but look close enough and you'll see how God wants to heal your community as well.

 
   


"Mature faith is flexible." - Rick Warren


"But when the Holy Spirit controls our lives, he will produce this kind of fruit in us: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. Here there is no conflict with the law." - Gal. 5:22-23 (NLT)


Sabrina Sloan fan site - One of the contestants on American Idol this year, Sabrina Sloan, grew up at Saddleback. Her mother was a long-time staff member at the church. Pastor Rick has not been shy about asking for people to vote for her. So check out her fan site and don't forget to vote for her this week!
New articles on HIV/AIDS Caring Community! - This Web site is full of articles and tools designed to motivate and equip you to minister effectively to those with HIV/AIDS in your community and around the world. If your church isn't currently involved in HIV/AIDS ministry, take a look at the site and ask God to open your eyes to how you can help people suffering through this pandemic.
Internet Evangelism Day, April 29 - You can find resources on this site to help you promote the Internet as an evangelism tool in your church.
Great books online – and they’re free! - This site offers everything from reference books to Agatha Christie to the Lincoln-Douglas debates. You can't download them, but they are available online to read.
Minister's Tax Guide - Tax day is coming soon! If you're in ministry and you need help with your taxes, take a look at this guide provided by Guidestone Financial Resources.


21 fresh ideas for Easter - Tamara Rice

Helps for your sermon this Easter - Joe McKeever

'Bone box’ documentary offers a unique opportunity for churches - Steve Sjogren

Six secrets to getting parents to commit to your children’s ministry - Janice Long

E-filing may make taxes easier this year - Howard Dayton

How to find an ‘instant mentor’ - Waylon B. Moore

Fellowship in a purpose driven church - Gordon MacDonald

The power of faith in your ministry - Mary Southerland


"There is more evidence that Jesus rose from the dead than there is that Julius Caesar ever lived or Alexander the Great died at the age of 33. It is strange that historians accept thousands of facts for which they can produce only shreds of evidence. But in the face of overwhelming evidence of the resurrection of Jesus Christ they cast a skeptical eye and hold intellectual doubts. The trouble with those people is that they do not want to believe." - Billy Graham, Peace with God

"Both children and theologians were part of the Palm Sunday throng. One can only imagine that the theologians had spent a very hard morning working with old Hebrew word roots. Their scholarship was rigorous, and it left them so distracted, they never saw the Son of God when he entered the city. The children, well ... they were quite another matter. They loved Jesus and were so glad to see him coming into Jerusalem, they began to shout their uninhibited praises." - Calvin Miller, The Christ of Easter (Broadman & Holman, 2004)

"Satan is not concerned with how many people gather in a service if all they do is sit and listen and leave. Satan does not care how much seed is sown as long as he can steal it away." - W. Oscar Thompson Jr., Concentric Circles of Concern (Broadman, 1981)

"The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain."  - Dolly Parton

"Authentic faith works to keep the eternal in focus." - William Wilberforce, Amazing Grace (revised and updated by Bob Beltz) (Regal, 2006)

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