Thanks-Living: Embracing a Life of Gratitude Every Day

Thanks-Living: Why 5:18? So many profound single verses from the Bible resound in our souls like a divine mic drop. We highlight, underline, memorize, and even sign these scriptural Mount Everests by our names. Yet how often do we miss the rich...

When You’ve Been With Jesus, You Cannot Stay the Same

When You've Been With Jesus, Your Life Begins to...

Authentic Masculinity: God’s Design for Men

Is Authentic Masculinity Even a Real Thing? Some say masculinity isn’t real, that it’s imaginary; just a stereotype or a social construct. Masculinity, it’s said, is like Santa Claus, a story we tell children...

How Pastors Can Use AI in Ministry Without Losing the Soul of Ministry

Pastors and Christian leaders are uniquely positioned to benefit from AI tools — and uniquely vulnerable to misusing them. Ministry is deeply human work. It involves souls, stories, suffering, repentance,...
Perception And Our Behavior

Perception And Our Behavior

“The picture I have of prayer is like Luke 15 and the prodigal son story, where the father ran to...

Stop Throwing Hail Marys

Stop Throwing Hail Marys

The American church is having a bit of an identity crisis. People want to be entertained, and they...

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Prayer is Not Just for the Spiritually Elite

Prayer is Not Just for the Spiritually Elite

    For many, a life of prayer and spiritual depth is not for them. It’s not that they do not desire it; it’s that they believe it is out of reach. There’ve been too many false starts in their spiritual life. A lot of well-intentioned declarations of...

Five Christian ways to handle an election year

Five Christian ways to handle an election year

    You may be a political junkie, searching out every possible partisan nugget in media and among friends, and looking forward to the bare-knuckled skirmishes of the new election year. Or you may find the sharp rhetoric and endless parsing of political...

Our God is a Relational God

Our God is a Relational God

    https://soundcloud.com/pastorresources/becoming-whole Before we can heal the brokenness in the world, we must diagnose the deeper issues of what causes brokenness. We must understand who God is, why He created humankind and what causes people to change....

Humor in the Church

Humor in the Church

    Believe it or not, this subject has sparked some controversy and theological debate among many pastors and theologians in the past. Some have taken the approach that Christianity is supposed to be a serious endeavor and, therefore, should not include...

Ignorance is Dominant

Ignorance is Dominant

    Having just come through the Christmas season I thought it would be a good time to look at an age old debate that always resurfaces during that time. I am speaking of the use of “Xmas” rather than “Christmas”. As any of you who have been in Christianity...

The 7 Rules of Rest

Pastor, you are called to preach. You are called to shepherd, you are called to lead. You are called to serve, you are called to sacrifice. You are...

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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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