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Issue #307
4/18/2007
How to get more out of your reading time
by Rick Warren
All leaders are readers. If you want your ministry to grow, you have to keep growing personally. Reading is a big part of that. Here are seven tips to help you get the most of your reading time. [more]
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Four questions for every dollar
by Kent Shaffer

How does your church spend money? Good stewardship is essential if we're going to fulfill God's purposes through our churches. In this article Kent Shaffer offers four questions for us to think through before we spend church money.  [more]

Lose It For Life
Stephen Arterburn and Linda S Mintle (Integrity, 2004)  

Co-written by Saddleback member, noted author, and popular radio host Stephen Arterburn, this book can help you and those in your congregation keep your weight off when you diet. The book focuses on the physical, emotional, and even spiritual elements that lead to permanent weight loss. Saddleback has a variety of small groups currently going through the book, using the DVD-based curriculum that is also available.

  
   


"The moment I - as a pastor - stop growing, this church will stop growing. You must always be developing and growing and becoming what God wants you to be. Learning to be a leader takes a lifetime." - Rick Warren


"Pay close attention, friend, to what your father tells you; never forget what you learned at your mother's knee." - Proverbs 1:8 (MSG)


Free Rick Warren messages for communities in crisis - If you plan on addressing the Virginia Tech massacre in your weekend sermon, Rick Warren has several free sermons dealing with crisis on Pastors.com. Click on the above link and look for the messages entitled: Connecting with God in Crisis, Rebuilding Your Life When You've Lost Everything, and Finding the Strength to Go On.
Group Ministry's Volunteer Central - On this site, you can sign up for a free weekly e-mail (called Tuesdays Tips) designed to help you work with volunteers more effectively. For a subscription cost, you can also get access to other resources on the site to help your volunteer ministry.
Potential church gift for grads - Looking for something to give away to the graduates in your congregation this year? This project, designed specifically for churches to give graduates, includes great music by top Christian artists, video advice from the artists, a humorous TV “webisode,” and more.
Steve Sjogren's Serve! online newsletter - Steve Sjogren's e-mail newsletter is full of articles that can help you and your church be more effective in servant evangelism. You can sign up for a free subscription to the e-newsletter on the site.
Rick Warren podcast: Maintaining God's blessing - Check out the latest Rick Warren podcast, where Pastor Rick talks with Pastors Kerry Shook (Fellowship of the Woodlands - Houston, Texas) and Lee McFarland (Radiant Church – Surprise, Ariz.) about how to maintain God's blessing on your life and church. Sign up on the site to find out when new podcasts are added!


Rwandan churches using genocide’s broken pieces to build a nation - Manda Gibson

Saddleback survey to help pastors mobilize for ministry nationwide - Erik Rees

Boosting your women's ministry on Mother's Day - Debbie Eaton

Fresh ideas for Mother’s Day - Diana Davis

Mother’s Day reflections - Kelly Boggs

Applying the power of targeted prayer - Eddie Smith

God’s peace a key to his power - Mary Southerland


"God could not be everywhere and therefore he made mothers." - Jewish proverb

"As a mother, my job is to take care of what is possible and trust God with the impossible." - Ruth Bell Graham

Around 96 percent of American consumers take part in Mother's Day in some way. - Source: Hallmark

"A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives." - Jackie Robinson

"Make no mistake: There is no promise of safety in Jesus' call. As he calls us into the frightening arena, he points to the wounds in his hands and side, as if to remind us that we are afraid for good reason. It really is a dangerous world. It really does wound us. Eventually, it kills us." - Mark Galli, managing editor of Christianity Today (on Christianitytoday.com)

"Christianity does not deny the reality of evil or try to hide from its true horror. Christians dare not minimize evil nor take refuge in euphemisms. Beyond this, we cannot accept that evil will have the last word. The last word will be the perfect fulfillment of the grace and justice of God." - R. Albert Mohler Jr., washingtonpost.com and Newsweek's 'On Faith' Web site

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