Mature Leaders Are Disciples First

Leadership Requires Maturity in Christian Leadership We are in desperate need of leaders who are maturing. We are in desperate need of leaders who are even more fruitful. But what does being fruitful as a leader mean? Leadership Requires Maturity...

Christian Hospitality Matters in Everyday Life

Christian Hospitality Means Welcoming People...

Studying Scripture Together

Studying Scripture Together Through Biblical Culture Biblical Culture Shock and the Importance of Studying Scripture in Community (1232 words) When I attended seminary, I was given a wonderful opportunity to...

Understanding Church Unity in Christ Through Creation

If you’ve observed a tight-knit flock of birds racing overhead and asked yourself, “How come they don’t hit each other?” or “Which one’s in charge anyway?” you’re not alone in your questions. How do birds...

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Encouraging Authentic Prayer

Encouraging Authentic Prayer

Though it’s been the better part of eighteen years, I can still recall vividly the day I received a phone call at work from the secretary at the church my wife and I had recently joined. As much as I was confused at how she knew the phone number she had reached me at...

Gossip in the Church

Gossip in the Church

Have you ever played the gossip game? This game has been around for a long time—probably because of how well it illustrates the effect of gossiping. I remember a particular Vacation Bible School when the youth class played this game. The teacher began by whispering...

Cocaine Trafficking, Heroin, and the Grace of God

Cocaine Trafficking, Heroin, and the Grace of God

If you feel you've walked too far from God, trust and know that you can never go too far from God’s love and salvation. James Sizemore, pastor of Radiant Church, shares his redemption story of drugs, trafficking, and addiction and how through God’s grace, he and...

Giving Your Worship Service a Budget-Friendly Facelift

Giving Your Worship Service a Budget-Friendly Facelift

Has there begun a slight indentation on the top of your desk from where you bang your head each week trying to plan yet another worship service? Have you already run out of fresh ideas for Sunday worship this year . . . and it’s February? Are you not one of the lucky...

Keeping Church Volunteers from Burning Out

Keeping Church Volunteers from Burning Out

If your church fits the stereotype that 20 percent of the people do 80 percent of the work, then you can bet your last dollar that 100 percent of those 20 percent either are in the process of burning out, burnt out long ago and are simply mailing in the work they once...

Fighting Addiction With Grace

Fighting Addiction With Grace

Though it typically is thought to be in reference with alcohol, drugs, and, lately, pornography, the term addiction truly refers to an almost unlimited list of habits that negatively affect a person and/or the people around him or her. In addition to these, people in...

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...

Everything Old Is New Again

    My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends. —John...

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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. 

Dave Wike

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