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How to make your church guest-friendly by Rick Warren
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Responding to conflict in small groups by Tom Atkins When you have a group of diverse personalities going through a range of issues each week, you’re bound to have conflict. In this issue, Tom Atkins shares 10 suggestions for promoting reconciliation and applies the Matthew 18 model of conflict resolution to group life. [more] |
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"I believe that pastors are the most strategic change agents to deal with the problems society faces. If I didn’t believe pastors have the best chance of making a difference in our world, I’d be doing something else." - Rick Warren |
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"Don’t forget to show hospitality to strangers, for some who have done this have entertained angels without realizing it!" - Hebrews 13:2 (NLT) "Then the King will say to those on his right, ‘Come, you who are blessed by my Father, inherit the Kingdom prepared for you from the creation of the world. For I was hungry, and you fed me. I was thirsty, and you gave me a drink. I was a stranger, and you invited me into your home.’" - Matthew 25:34-35 (NLT) |
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My Utmost for His Highest - Oswald Chambers’ classic devotional is available free-of-charge on the RBC Ministries Website. You can also find Our Daily Bread completely free on this site. Both devotionals might make good links for you church Website as people look to reestablish a devotional habit in the new year. Pastors.com blogs - Browse through the blog entries of all sorts of folks in ministry on Pastors.com. Or start your own blog here. Awakening: 21 Days of Prayer and Fasting - Start 2009 by uniting with other churches for a season of prayer and fasting. Awakening takes place January 11 to 31. Learn more about how you can participate on this site. Pure Praise: A Heart-Focused Bible Study on Worship - Pure Praise is a study for worship teams and worshippers that strips away the glam and flash and gets back to the heart of worship. If your church’s worship is on autopilot, this nine-week study by Dwayne Moore will inspire new passion and understanding. Biblical Art on the Web - On this site you can find just about every piece of biblical art available on the Web. You can search for the pieces by keyword, biblical text, biblical subject, and artist. How relativism led to today’s economic climate - In this Christianityoday.com article Chuck Colson lays out the connection between the economic crisis and the culture’s continued march toward relativism. |
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Teaching the next generation to reach their oikos for Christ - Tom Mercer What we can learn from Jehoshaphat’s prayer life - Dwayne Moore Assessing potential leaders for church plants or multi-site expansion - Dave Gallagher Coming out of the dark – part one - Mary Southerland |
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