Tag: ministry
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Don’t Abandon Me Like Those People Did
Paul is trying to encourage Timothy to hold on to his ministry. He decides to use two examples, one negative and one positive.
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A GUEST POST–CHURCH CONFLICT
Derek Elkins wrote today’s blog post. Derek and I are both founding “Bards” at Bardandbook.com where we write and publish, along with many others. He sent me this yesterday as a reflection on a troubling situation he’d observed at a distance. Check out Derek’s Amazon page by clicking here. So, it’s happened to all…
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REFLECTING ON YESTERDAY’S FOOLISHNESS
So yesterday I preached that great passage from 1 Corinthians. For the word of the cross is folly to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God. (1 Corinthians 1:18, ESV) The sermon juked and jived around the paradox of God’s foolishness compared with the world’s…
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BETTER SOLUTIONS TO MINISTRY FUNK
In between putting out brush fires, I read an interesting article today about dealing with ministry funk. The article is written by super popular and super hip pastor Steven Furtick (How cool is Steven Furtick? He’s so cool his church is named ‘Elevation’–yeah, he wants you to know you will never be as cool as…