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Understanding the Emptiness Crisis
For two decades Americans have become more unhappy, more discontented, and more depressed than ever before. This is not just empty rhetoric; the research is clear. Suicide has gone up every year in nearly every state for the last two decades (“Suicide Rates on the...
Living with Restoration Rhythms
Sustainable Activism Includes Rest I’ve come to recognize I am an exponentially more kind, patient, and attentive person after I have had a good night’s sleep. With every thirty minutes of uninterrupted shuteye, I become a better listener and more attuned to the...
Try God Breakthrough in Ministry
As I write this, our local church has been experiencing massive growth. Throughout this process, I’ve been asking and seeking God for a larger gathering place. On one particular blessed Sunday, as I noticed people walking down the street and being shuttled back and...
Walking in Freedom Through the Holy Spirit
Once, I went to an escape room with my mom and sisters. Oh, man, my blood was pumping the whole time! I felt anxious—the pressure to figure out the way to freedom while the clock was ticking. And sadly, we didn’t succeed. Why not? We didn’t ask for help. We were told...
Faith Foundation Guide for Parents
Work began on the bell tower, the final structure of a cathedral complex in Tuscany, in 1173. This eight-story tower would stand two hundred feet tall and be made of marble. But by the time the third story was complete, a problem was apparent: the tower was leaning....
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Young But Useful: Why Young Believers Matter
Spiritual Maturity Matters More Than Age In 1 Corinthians 13:11 Paul declared, “When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me.” Notice Paul did not say, “When I...
Living With Kingdom Influence
You are a kingdom disciple living as a kingdom servant while making a kingdom impact that will resonate throughout all time. And you do this through what we read in 1 Peter, which says we are to “proclaim the excellencies of Him who has called you out of darkness into...
Understanding the Emptiness Crisis
For two decades Americans have become more unhappy, more discontented, and more depressed than ever before. This is not just empty rhetoric; the research is clear. Suicide has gone up every year in nearly every state for the last two decades (“Suicide Rates on the...
Living with Restoration Rhythms
Sustainable Activism Includes Rest I’ve come to recognize I am an exponentially more kind, patient, and attentive person after I have had a good night’s sleep. With every thirty minutes of uninterrupted shuteye, I become a better listener and more attuned to the...
Walking in Freedom Through the Holy Spirit
Once, I went to an escape room with my mom and sisters. Oh, man, my blood was pumping the whole time! I felt anxious—the pressure to figure out the...
Faith Foundation Guide for Parents
Work began on the bell tower, the final structure of a cathedral complex in Tuscany, in 1173. This eight-story tower would stand two hundred feet...
Promise of Heaven
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Finding Peace in Life’s Storms
In the mid-1970s Steven Spielberg produced a movie called Jaws, the fictional story of a monster shark that made a meal out of the swimmers off the...
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All Occasions Invite His Mercies
Years ago, a friend of mine led a conversational ESL class for immigrant women in her town. She covered all the things you need to know to get...
Walking With Jesus Through the Wilderness and Into Grace
Forty years ago on an early afternoon in October while driving on a North Carolina interstate, I turned to Jesus as my Savior and Lord. This past...
Becoming Pillars in the Church Through Suffering and Support
Will You Be a Pillar? A week after I preached my Platforms to Pillars sermon in London, I was leaving a speaking event, feeling exhausted after a...
Freedom from the Pressure to Perform in Ministry
Have You Felt That Insidious Pressure to Perform? A poor man plodded toward home, bent under a heavy sack of potatoes. A wagon drew up beside him....
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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