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Reborn from Manafest

Reborn from Manafest

Singer/rapper/songwriter/author/skater Manafest pushes musical envelopes, creating an uplifting, seamless blur between the spectrums of rap, hip-hop, rock and pop while selling 300,000-plus albums, playing more than 1,000 events logged over four continents and...

Brave New World from Amanda Cook

Brave New World from Amanda Cook

Bethel Music, the worship music and community of songwriters emerging from Bethel Church in Redding, CA, released the debut solo album from artist Amanda Cook, Brave New World, on September 25 through Provident Distribution. Featuring 13 original songs, the album...

You Hold It All from Travis Ryan

You Hold It All from Travis Ryan

Worship leader, recording artist and award-winning songwriter, Travis Ryan, released his five-song EP, You Hold It All, globally through Integrity Music. The EP is meant to be a shining testament to God’s faithfulness, through both the beautiful and the tragic...

Spontaneous Prayer

Spontaneous Prayer

I come from a tradition that privileges “spontaneous prayer” and looks suspiciously on scripted prayers or prayers written down beforehand.  According to this perspective, spontaneous prayer means prayer from the heart while written prayers are not from the heart.  I...

Differentiating Disruptions, Interruption, and Divine Appointments

Differentiating Disruptions, Interruption, and Divine Appointments

Life is filled with disruptions and interruptions. So how can we tell the difference between these and divine appointments? Here, PastorResources.com contributor Karen Whiting tackles this issue head-on: A woman touched Christ’s cloak and caused him to stop when he...

Time and Accountability Partners

Time and Accountability Partners

Sometimes time management is something that is much more achievable when you don't try to do it on your own. PastorResources.com contributor Karen Whiting is here to explain how an accountability partner can help: Accountability partnership is teaming up with someone...

When and How to Say “No” Graciously

When and How to Say “No” Graciously

As pastors, we may feel called to say, "yes" to everything. A congregant needs someone to chat with? No problem! Someone needs some sound advice? You're there! A wedding ceremony? You'll plan it! Someone needs a visit at home or in the hospital? Of course! But then,...

Beyond “Recitation”

Beyond “Recitation”

I remember, as an adolescent, entering a Scripture memory contest in my hometown. Obviously, the object was to memorize more scriptures than anyone else. I won that contest, and by a large margin (though I did misquote one…). Being a PK (preacher’s kid), obviously I...

Do I Really Matter to God?

I recently had a conversation with a really smart person. I don’t mean street smart—I mean a bona fide, card-carrying member of the genius club. This individual spoke English, but it wasn’t the English the rest of us speak. We were talking about the Bible. Since I’m a...

3 Problems with our Discipleship and 3 Remedies to Transform it

I don't surf, but if l did, the last three years at Transformation Church would be like surfing on a tsunami wave of grace. We've grown from 178 people into a multi-ethnic, multi-generational congregation of 2,400. More than 1,800 people have to come to faith, and...

Reborn from Manafest

Reborn from Manafest

Singer/rapper/songwriter/author/skater Manafest pushes musical envelopes, creating an uplifting, seamless blur between the spectrums of rap, hip-hop, rock and pop while selling 300,000-plus albums, playing more than 1,000 events logged over four continents and...

Brave New World from Amanda Cook

Brave New World from Amanda Cook

Bethel Music, the worship music and community of songwriters emerging from Bethel Church in Redding, CA, released the debut solo album from artist Amanda Cook, Brave New World, on September 25 through Provident Distribution. Featuring 13 original songs, the album...

You Hold It All from Travis Ryan

You Hold It All from Travis Ryan

Worship leader, recording artist and award-winning songwriter, Travis Ryan, released his five-song EP, You Hold It All, globally through Integrity Music. The EP is meant to be a shining testament to God’s faithfulness, through both the beautiful and the tragic...

Spontaneous Prayer

Spontaneous Prayer

I come from a tradition that privileges “spontaneous prayer” and looks suspiciously on scripted prayers or prayers written down beforehand.  According to this perspective, spontaneous prayer means prayer from the heart while written prayers are not from the heart.  I...

Differentiating Disruptions, Interruption, and Divine Appointments

Differentiating Disruptions, Interruption, and Divine Appointments

Life is filled with disruptions and interruptions. So how can we tell the difference between these and divine appointments? Here, PastorResources.com contributor Karen Whiting tackles this issue head-on: A woman touched Christ’s cloak and caused him to stop when he...

Time and Accountability Partners

Time and Accountability Partners

Sometimes time management is something that is much more achievable when you don't try to do it on your own. PastorResources.com contributor Karen Whiting is here to explain how an accountability partner can help: Accountability partnership is teaming up with someone...

When and How to Say “No” Graciously

When and How to Say “No” Graciously

As pastors, we may feel called to say, "yes" to everything. A congregant needs someone to chat with? No problem! Someone needs some sound advice? You're there! A wedding ceremony? You'll plan it! Someone needs a visit at home or in the hospital? Of course! But then,...

Beyond “Recitation”

Beyond “Recitation”

I remember, as an adolescent, entering a Scripture memory contest in my hometown. Obviously, the object was to memorize more scriptures than anyone else. I won that contest, and by a large margin (though I did misquote one…). Being a PK (preacher’s kid), obviously I...

Do I Really Matter to God?

I recently had a conversation with a really smart person. I don’t mean street smart—I mean a bona fide, card-carrying member of the genius club. This individual spoke English, but it wasn’t the English the rest of us speak. We were talking about the Bible. Since I’m a...

3 Problems with our Discipleship and 3 Remedies to Transform it

I don't surf, but if l did, the last three years at Transformation Church would be like surfing on a tsunami wave of grace. We've grown from 178 people into a multi-ethnic, multi-generational congregation of 2,400. More than 1,800 people have to come to faith, and...

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