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Ministry at your breaking point
by Rick Warren
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Stress is a natural part of ministry. A certain amount of it is even helpful to accomplishing what God has called you to do. But when you feel like you’re at your breaking point, it’s time to step back and remind yourself of four key stress-busters from the Bible. [more]
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Raising the value of stewardship at your church
by Chris Goulard
As a pastor, you probably cringe at teaching about stewardship. You don’t want to scare people away by challenging them to give. Yet Jesus taught on financial stewardship more than almost any other topic in the Bible. If it was that important to Jesus, it should be that important to us. In this issue, Chris Goulard shares six components of a stewardship strategy you can use at your church.
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| One Month to Live |
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| Kerry and Chris Shook (Waterbrook, 2008) |
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What if you lived your life like it was the last month of your life? Would it change anything? A few years ago, Pastor Kerry Shook challenged his church staff to do just that. The results were mind-blowing. This book will challenge you to live with that same level of urgency. It would be a great book to use as background for your teaching or to take your staff through. Kerry’s church, Fellowship of the Woodlands, is a former winner of Saddleback’s Purpose Driven Church Health Award. It’s a book Pastor Rick highly recommends.
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"People are always more encouraged when we share how God’s grace helped us in weakness than when we brag about our strengths." - Rick Warren
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"He gives strength to the weary and increases the power of the weak."
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Isaiah 40:29 (NIV)
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Build a family health portrait - Create a family health portrait that you can store online and share with a new doctor. It’s put together by the U.S. Surgeon General’s office.
A new lead on the Ark of the Covenant - A real-life Indiana Jones thinks he’s discovered the Ark of the Covenant of the Old Testament. But he takes a lot of leaps to get there, according to this Time magazine article.
John Ortberg on hope management - Delegation is an important part of an effective pastoral ministry. But there’s one role you’ll never be able to delegate – the dispenser of hope.
Unbound Bible - Biola University has Bible translations and study tools in a variety of languages on its site. You can also find free Bible software for your Palm Pilot.
Create your own online newspaper - Use a variety of online resources to create your own daily newspaper.
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Warren’s 12 ways to teach your congregation to study God’s Word
- Tobin Perry
When God takes you up on your sermon
- Doug Slaybaugh
Ten tax mistakes
- Howard Dayton
Take advantage of an early Easter to launch groups
- Mark Howell
How to improve your love life – part three
- Mary Southerland
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“I often went fishing up in Maine during the summer. Personally, I am very fond of strawberries and cream, but I have found that for some strange reason, fish prefer worms. So when I went fishing, I didn’t think about what I wanted. I thought about what they wanted. I didn’t bait the hook with strawberries and cream. Rather, I dangled a worm or grasshopper in front of the fish and said: ‘Wouldn't you like to have that?’ Why not use the same common sense when fishing for people?”
- Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends and Influence People
Regardless of the total size of an iceberg, approximately one ninth of it will be above the water.
- 10,000 Answers, the Ultimate Trivia Encyclopedia (Gramercy, 2004)
“Answering the call of our Creator is ‘the ultimate why’ for living, the highest source of purpose in human existence. Apart from such a calling, all hope of discovering a purpose will end in disappointment… Nothing short of God’s call can ground and fulfill the truest human desire for purpose.”
- Os Guinness, The Call: Finding and Fulfilling the Central Purpose of Your Life (Thomas Nelson, 2003)
“Let go of what you think life should be so you can experience the life you have.”
- Rhonda Britten, founder of the Fearless Living Institute
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