A couple of years ago Vice President Mike Pence mentioned that he follows the “Billy Graham Rule.” This created confusion outside the church and fresh debate inside the church as to how men and women should relate in the workplace. If you are not familiar with the Billy Graham Rule it came from Reverend Graham’s […]
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Recently I read *Resilient – Child Discipleship and the Fearless Future of the Church. One of the things that stood out to me was when the authors described that most kids’ ministry leaders don’t have a metric for measuring success in kids’ ministry. I know this to be true because one of the questions I
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This July marked 22 years of pastoral ministry for me in the same church. Growing up, I moved often and rarely lived more than three to five years in an any given location. Two decades in the same place has been surreal and filled with its joys and pains. Pastoral ministry is not easy and
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Daylight savings is a mixed bag. I really don’t know why we still do it. For church folk we love falling back because everyone gets to church when it actually starts, but hate springing forward because people miss church all together. I jest, when people arrive at church. (I do notice how many church remind
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Kevin DeYoung in his fantastic devotional exposition of the Heidelberg Catechism explains the threefold outline of the Catechism in such a concise and profound way. Question one of the Catechism shapes our whole existence. The first thing we need to know as a Christian is that we belong to Jesus and not to ourselves. But
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[callout]”Try Grammarly’s plagiarism checker free of charge because as I have famously said to error is human; to forgive, divine.”[/callout] “If a child is engaged by a story nothing else competes” – Sally Lloyd-Jones Stories are powerful we forget this, Jesus did not but we do. We get distracted by the shiny things that
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I love the Heath brothers I have read all three of their books. I like their books because they start with a hypothesis then do research and mix in person stories and application. Recently I read a book they wrote called Decisive. In the book Decisive they tackle the idea of how we make decisions
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One way that I plan on doing this is by doing events for the family based around the community of Facebook. The first event that we did was called “Facebook Family Fun Night” What is Facebook Family Fun Night? Well the origin of my idea came from Kendra and her team at North Point Church. I
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There has been a question that has dogged me lately, and it’s this. “Why isn’t there more innovation in Ministry.” I have thought about this for a while and the latest issue of Harvard Business Review is all about innovation. I read an article about the DNA of an Innovator, it really got me thinking. One of the biggest take
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1. Free Easter Curriculum God to the Rescue 2. How We Tweek Minute to Win It Games for kidmin. 3. Need a Christ Centered Easter Curriculum? 4. Why we wrote our own curriculum? 5. Our idea for a Collaborative Kidmin Curriculum. 6. About 7. How to Customize Facebook For Your Children’s Ministry. 8. Stuff Kids Pastor’s Like #105: Candy and Drugs. 9. Free
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