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PKs Offer Their Protection
Pastors, don’t make your kids have to set boundaries for you. What do I mean? Well, there’s nothing like being a PK. I can say that from experience precisely because I am, well, a preacher’s kid. For all the dour, sour words my sister and I have heard from fellow PKs...
Eight Signs of Spiritual Growth
How well I remember my first vegetable garden! Each day I would lovingly water the tender plants and carefully check their growth. I found it exciting to watch them increase in height and fullness every few days and to know they were flourishing. Planting a garden led...
Spontaneous Prayer
I come from a tradition that privileges “spontaneous prayer” and looks suspiciously on scripted prayers or prayers written down beforehand. According to this perspective, spontaneous prayer means prayer from the heart while written prayers are not from the heart. I...
Overcoming procrastination
Most pastors have areas they always do well and other activities that they dread and can procrastinate doing. The main reasons people procrastinate are lack of interest or purpose in the task, fear of failure, disorganization, and a false sense of timing. Postponing...
From The God We’ve Made…To God With Us
What do you do if you’re trying to do everything right and it’s not working? There’s no point in dismissing me here. You probably know what I’m talking about. You’re a pastor for crying out loud. You’ve devoted your life to getting this faith journey right and had the...
Differentiating Disruptions, Interruption, and Divine Appointments
Life is filled with disruptions and interruptions. So how can we tell the difference between these and divine appointments? Here, PastorResources.com contributor Karen Whiting tackles this issue head-on: A woman touched Christ’s cloak and caused him to stop when he...
Living Intentionally
What would you do if you knew you only had six months to live? That question confronted me during a recent close brush with death. A blood clot had...
Proximity and Presence
At Canaan we are trying to live into our tagline “the church where love makes the difference,” which we have found to be a very...
Heaven: It’s Not for Everyone
Most people believe in an afterlife. And in most cases, this belief involves a good place and a bad place. If you’re a good person, and you embrace...
Four ways to help your teens disconnect from social media and spend time with God
It’s no surprise that students need to spend daily time alone with God. And its also no surprise that a student’s relationship with...
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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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