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How to Pray for Refugees During Times of War and Crisis

How to Pray for Refugees During Times of War and Crisis

Did you know that the number of refugees around the world has doubled in the past 10 years? In fact, there are more refugees in the world today than at any other point in history, surpassing the 100 million mark in 2022. The reasons these families have been driven...

Five Ways to Start Listening to God in Your Life

Five Ways to Start Listening to God in Your Life

What if you could hear God speaking? What difference would that make in your life? I don’t mean hearing an audible voice. I wouldn’t need to write about hearing that. You would just listen. Instead, I mean receiving a message from Him as a thought in the mind. The...

Overcoming Body Image Struggles in Marriage

Overcoming Body Image Struggles in Marriage

My husband always tells me how beautiful I am and speaks kindly about my body. Why can’t I receive it? Sixteen years ago, my husband and I had a fight I will never forget. I rarely remember why we were fighting, but this memory is one that left a mark on my heart. I...

A Guide to Small Group Ministry

A Guide to Small Group Ministry

Compared to large church services, small group meetings are often more interactive, conversational, and close-knit, helping members make deep connections as they work towards spiritual growth. Follow these tips for starting a small group ministry, and you’ll give the...

Three Ways Pastors and Churches Can Care for Missionaries

Three Ways Pastors and Churches Can Care for Missionaries

This year, over 7,000 missionaries will be forced to leave their calling. That’s almost 20 missionaries a day, throwing in the towel. Over the years I’ve heard a lot of reasons why mission workers return home. Look at some of the reasons we lose valuable, qualified...

Twelve Ways to Get Started in Evangelism

Twelve Ways to Get Started in Evangelism

I love the mountains and spend any time that I can hiking and climbing in them. I therefore own gargantuan quantities of hiking equipment, and one of my favourite pieces of kit is my ice axe. There is just one little problem. I’ve never used the thing. I certainly...

Eight Reasons We’re Afraid to Share Our Faith with Others

Eight Reasons We’re Afraid to Share Our Faith with Others

We live in a very fear-based culture. Our news media is full of endless stories about things we should be afraid of: climate change, pandemics, financial crashes, asteroid strikes, tortoises, shark attacks, coconuts falling on you, and so on. Whether irrational or...

Wherever, Whatever

Wherever, Whatever

Pastor Resources · Wherever, Whatever When I first gave my life to Jesus, I remember saying to him, “Wherever you want me, whatever you want, however and whenever you want it—I am all yours.” Honestly, I think that kind of response is just what love, in fact, does. If...

Leading the Church

Leading the Church

Pastor Resources · Leading In The Church   I have been disappointed by how many church leaders avoid having crucial conversations as if they were the bubonic plague. Instead, they believe the innuendos, reasoning, and deductions they’ve never investigated but...

A Pastor’s Worst Nightmare

A Pastor’s Worst Nightmare

Pastor Resources · A Pastor's Worst Nightmare   The first recorded sermon by Jesus is a pastor’s worst nightmare. Halfway through the place erupts violently. The hometown synagogue crowd furiously drives Jesus out of the city “in order to throw him off the cliff”...

How to Pray for Refugees During Times of War and Crisis

How to Pray for Refugees During Times of War and Crisis

Did you know that the number of refugees around the world has doubled in the past 10 years? In fact, there are more refugees in the world today than at any other point in history, surpassing the 100 million mark in 2022. The reasons these families have been driven...

Five Ways to Start Listening to God in Your Life

Five Ways to Start Listening to God in Your Life

What if you could hear God speaking? What difference would that make in your life? I don’t mean hearing an audible voice. I wouldn’t need to write about hearing that. You would just listen. Instead, I mean receiving a message from Him as a thought in the mind. The...

Overcoming Body Image Struggles in Marriage

Overcoming Body Image Struggles in Marriage

My husband always tells me how beautiful I am and speaks kindly about my body. Why can’t I receive it? Sixteen years ago, my husband and I had a fight I will never forget. I rarely remember why we were fighting, but this memory is one that left a mark on my heart. I...

A Guide to Small Group Ministry

A Guide to Small Group Ministry

Compared to large church services, small group meetings are often more interactive, conversational, and close-knit, helping members make deep connections as they work towards spiritual growth. Follow these tips for starting a small group ministry, and you’ll give the...

Three Ways Pastors and Churches Can Care for Missionaries

Three Ways Pastors and Churches Can Care for Missionaries

This year, over 7,000 missionaries will be forced to leave their calling. That’s almost 20 missionaries a day, throwing in the towel. Over the years I’ve heard a lot of reasons why mission workers return home. Look at some of the reasons we lose valuable, qualified...

Twelve Ways to Get Started in Evangelism

Twelve Ways to Get Started in Evangelism

I love the mountains and spend any time that I can hiking and climbing in them. I therefore own gargantuan quantities of hiking equipment, and one of my favourite pieces of kit is my ice axe. There is just one little problem. I’ve never used the thing. I certainly...

Eight Reasons We’re Afraid to Share Our Faith with Others

Eight Reasons We’re Afraid to Share Our Faith with Others

We live in a very fear-based culture. Our news media is full of endless stories about things we should be afraid of: climate change, pandemics, financial crashes, asteroid strikes, tortoises, shark attacks, coconuts falling on you, and so on. Whether irrational or...

Wherever, Whatever

Wherever, Whatever

Pastor Resources · Wherever, Whatever When I first gave my life to Jesus, I remember saying to him, “Wherever you want me, whatever you want, however and whenever you want it—I am all yours.” Honestly, I think that kind of response is just what love, in fact, does. If...

Leading the Church

Leading the Church

Pastor Resources · Leading In The Church   I have been disappointed by how many church leaders avoid having crucial conversations as if they were the bubonic plague. Instead, they believe the innuendos, reasoning, and deductions they’ve never investigated but...

A Pastor’s Worst Nightmare

A Pastor’s Worst Nightmare

Pastor Resources · A Pastor's Worst Nightmare   The first recorded sermon by Jesus is a pastor’s worst nightmare. Halfway through the place erupts violently. The hometown synagogue crowd furiously drives Jesus out of the city “in order to throw him off the cliff”...

Helping Your Small Group Thrive

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