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Stepparents: Learn to Listen for Love

Stepparents: Learn to Listen for Love

Pastor Resources · Building Love   To bond with stepchildren, stepparents are prudent to lead with love and to apply the principles of the 5 love languages with wisdom. Further, as we discuss in our book Building Love Together in Blended Families, to dissuade...

Grieving a Spouse: Vital Financial Decisions You Must Make

Grieving a Spouse: Vital Financial Decisions You Must Make

Pastor Resources · Grieving A Spouse - Vital Financial Decisions You Must Make   Dealing with the passing of a loved one is never easy, but it becomes more challenging when legal loose ends remain untied. In addition to navigating life without your spouse, you also...

Surviving Sorrow: Help Grieving Parents In Your Church

Surviving Sorrow: Help Grieving Parents In Your Church

  Helping parents who’ve lost a child must be one of the most difficult things pastors and church leadership teams must face. I am one of those parents. In 2008, when our three-year-old son died from strep throat, I did not know the Lord, nor go to a church. I...

A man of faithfulness

A man of faithfulness

  In 1 Chronicles 11:41, we see Uriah listed as one of David’s “mighty warriors”—the men who “gave his kingship strong support to extend it over the whole land, as the Lord had promised” (verse 10). Uriah was clearly consumed with the purposes of his king, David....

Angry at Your Spouse? Six ways to handle this emotion productively.

Angry at Your Spouse? Six ways to handle this emotion productively.

    “I don’t ever remember losing my temper until I got married.” All married couples experience anger. The tragedy is that thousands of couples never learn how to process anger productively. Marriage becomes a battlefield, each spouse accusing the other of...

Powerful New App

Powerful New App

    Conflict resolution is an interesting idea, but it is often very difficult to achieve. It's no wonder that so many Christians rightly solicit the wise counsel of their pastor. The only problem with that is that scheduling time with a pastor can be...

Pastors as Homemakers: Shaping the Christian’s First Family

Pastors as Homemakers: Shaping the Christian’s First Family

    A few years ago my wife and I attended a small international church in Limassol, Cyprus. Among the congregation were several Filipino domestic workers who led the singing, a couple who were refugees from Syria, about twenty Cypriots, and four pastors!...

The One and Only

The One and Only

    When I was a young girl, my dad told me a story about a well. He said, “Human beings are like wells. Every time we interact with someone, we take a little bit of our water to give them something to drink. But over time, if we continue to give from our...

Improving Family Relationships: A New Year’s Resolution

Improving Family Relationships: A New Year’s Resolution

    You’ve heard it said many times before. You’ve likely even said it to yourself. “Don’t sacrifice your family for your ministry.” You know it’s true, but you continue to struggle with the implementation. It’s not just about the preaching and teaching, but...

Stepparents: Learn to Listen for Love

Stepparents: Learn to Listen for Love

Pastor Resources · Building Love   To bond with stepchildren, stepparents are prudent to lead with love and to apply the principles of the 5 love languages with wisdom. Further, as we discuss in our book Building Love Together in Blended Families, to dissuade...

Grieving a Spouse: Vital Financial Decisions You Must Make

Grieving a Spouse: Vital Financial Decisions You Must Make

Pastor Resources · Grieving A Spouse - Vital Financial Decisions You Must Make   Dealing with the passing of a loved one is never easy, but it becomes more challenging when legal loose ends remain untied. In addition to navigating life without your spouse, you also...

Surviving Sorrow: Help Grieving Parents In Your Church

Surviving Sorrow: Help Grieving Parents In Your Church

  Helping parents who’ve lost a child must be one of the most difficult things pastors and church leadership teams must face. I am one of those parents. In 2008, when our three-year-old son died from strep throat, I did not know the Lord, nor go to a church. I...

A man of faithfulness

A man of faithfulness

  In 1 Chronicles 11:41, we see Uriah listed as one of David’s “mighty warriors”—the men who “gave his kingship strong support to extend it over the whole land, as the Lord had promised” (verse 10). Uriah was clearly consumed with the purposes of his king, David....

Angry at Your Spouse? Six ways to handle this emotion productively.

Angry at Your Spouse? Six ways to handle this emotion productively.

    “I don’t ever remember losing my temper until I got married.” All married couples experience anger. The tragedy is that thousands of couples never learn how to process anger productively. Marriage becomes a battlefield, each spouse accusing the other of...

Powerful New App

Powerful New App

    Conflict resolution is an interesting idea, but it is often very difficult to achieve. It's no wonder that so many Christians rightly solicit the wise counsel of their pastor. The only problem with that is that scheduling time with a pastor can be...

Pastors as Homemakers: Shaping the Christian’s First Family

Pastors as Homemakers: Shaping the Christian’s First Family

    A few years ago my wife and I attended a small international church in Limassol, Cyprus. Among the congregation were several Filipino domestic workers who led the singing, a couple who were refugees from Syria, about twenty Cypriots, and four pastors!...

The One and Only

The One and Only

    When I was a young girl, my dad told me a story about a well. He said, “Human beings are like wells. Every time we interact with someone, we take a little bit of our water to give them something to drink. But over time, if we continue to give from our...

Improving Family Relationships: A New Year’s Resolution

Improving Family Relationships: A New Year’s Resolution

    You’ve heard it said many times before. You’ve likely even said it to yourself. “Don’t sacrifice your family for your ministry.” You know it’s true, but you continue to struggle with the implementation. It’s not just about the preaching and teaching, but...

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