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Spiritual Maturity Matters More Than Age In 1 Corinthians 13:11 Paul declared, “When I was a...
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Finding Real Encouragement in a Discouraging World
The enemy has a strategy, and it’s devastatingly simple. Discouragement: The Enemy’s First Strike If he can get us discouraged, he can get us disappointed. If he can get us disappointed, he can get us distracted. If he can get us distracted, he can get us divided. If...
Leadership Lessons from Overcoming the Odds
After my ninth birthday and with my mother’s permission, my dad began to be present more consistently in my life again. How Football Shaped Early Leadership A sports enthusiast, my dad saw it as his responsibility to introduce me to football. Those are still some of...
Leaders Must Remember They Are Beloved
Do you remember your first leadership title? Maybe it was pastor, director, manager, or supervisor. You likely felt the affirmation and responsibility as someone entrusted to lead others. It’s a significant moment, but it can also be a subtle trap. Our title begins to...
Hospitality That Reflects Christ
And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds, not giving up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but encouraging one another—and all the more as you see the Day approaching. —Hebrews 10:24–25 Every day they...
Restoring Joy in Work and Ministry
How to Restore the Whistle in Your Work Hi ho, hi ho, it’s off to work we go… Remember the seven dwarfs singing as they headed off to work? Does that describe your mornings? Work Was Never the Curse Unfortunately, sometimes we come to view our work—and ministry—as a...
Addiction, Brokenness, and the Hope of Christ
When I was seventeen, someone introduced me to a drug called crystal meth. Since the age of eleven, my story had been a drug-induced downward spiral, but this was a new low. How Addiction Took Control Crystal meth is an upper. You can snort it, shoot it up with a...
Practice Hospitality: Becoming a Person of Welcome
Why We Must Practice Hospitality in a Broken World Family and friends welcomed them to a foreign land. My parents were the first of their families...
Ask Better Questions to Expand Your World
Why You Must Ask Better Questions in Life EXPANDING—OR SHRINKING—YOUR WORLD The dimensions of your life expand or shrink in proportion to the...
Pastor as Gardener: A Biblical Model for Ministry
Pastor as Gardener in Biblical Ministry The story of the early church—Mary, Thomas, Peter, and so many more—is a story of lives transformed through...
Faith Behind the Mask: Finding God in Hidden Pain
Faith Behind the Mask in the Modern Church Have you ever walked into church and wondered if anyone could tell you were wearing a mask? As you leaned...
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"As revival closes in on the one-week mark at Asbury University, reports are circulating of other colleges and universities where revival fires have...
How The Gospel Enables and Empowers Sexual Purity
Growing up in a churchgoing family, Kate had been taught that maintaining her sexual purity for marriage was of “utmost importance.” She had been...
Liturgical Renewal
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Why Are Women Leaving the Church?
Women have always attended church at higher rates than men, but that may be changing. From 2003 to 2019, women’s attendance dropped from 48 percent...
About the President
Dave Wike is a family man. Serving pastors, and those who desire to do the same, became his calling over the last 20+ years. He and his wife Margie live in North Carolina. They have a son living overseas, and three daughters still at home. Dave enjoys writing instrumental guitar music, and plans to complete his Masters in Biblical Counseling. He’s also well aware he can do nothing good apart from the Holy Spirit.
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