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Gratitude for Faithful Pastors
OCTOBER IS PASTOR APPRECIATION MONTH. May we suggest doing something special for those who serve you and your church? However, may we...
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Calling All Clergy
Calling all Clergy to a place of refuge and encouragement. You certainly do not need permission to this place, but often a gentle...
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Encouraging Your Pastor
Do something special for those who serve your church. Year-round, become one who “comes along side” of God’s ministering servants.
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God’s “Sweet Spot”
Events occur that challenge our call from God to be a pastor/leader/shepherd to His people in His Church. Pastors quit the ministry...
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Lamenting Worship
Recently as I was teaching an Old Testament Survey class I was reminded that more than 1/3 of the Psalms were classified as lament....
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The best of times! The worst of times!
In A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens penned, “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times... it was the spring of hope, it...
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Seasons In Our Lives
“To everything there is a season, A time for every purpose under heaven.” – Eccl 3:1 Every season we experience in our lives has...
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Intimacy with God
One night after I told the Lord I wanted more of Him in my life, the Lord visited me with what I call “a baptism of His presence.” For...
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Prayer Produces Results
The car was traveling at a high rate of speed straight toward me in my lane. I considered shifting to the left lane, but what happens if...
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Adventures in Prayer - #2
In 2 Kings 19:20 - King Hezekiah took a letter written by Sennacherib which challenged God’s ability to keep Jerusalem safe, spread it...