Love Languages Strengthen Relationships

Love Languages Go Beyond a Single Expression of Love The 5 Love Languages explains how everyone has a primary love language, one that resonates most deeply. But it’s rarely the only way that person feels loved. A secondary love language can be...

God’s Impartial Love Reveals Our True Identity

Impartial Love Shapes How We See Humanity From...

Unshakable Faith in a Culture of Compromise

When Truth Gets Twisted: How Secular Culture Is Rewriting Christianity from Within “My dear Wormwood, I note with grave displeasure that your patient has become a Christian . . . There is no need to despair;...

Deep Conversations Build Meaningful Relationships

Deep Conversations Create Authentic Connection “Friends, do I have permission to go deep with you?” This is how I start many of my keynote talks, because I’ve learned over time that if you give people a...
Warfare and Royalty

Warfare and Royalty

PREPARING FOR OUR MISSION, PART 3 Embracing Spiritual Warfare and Royalty Promoted to Royalty...

Rethinking Church Growth

Rethinking Church Growth

Two Misguided Assumptions About Church Growth As a church leader, perhaps you’re asking yourself,...

Overcome Toxic Thoughts

Overcome Toxic Thoughts

He was my favorite teacher. I had hoped and wished to get Mr. Saperstein for the fourth grade, and...

Embracing Forced Pauses

Embracing Forced Pauses

Doesn’t a forced pause always seem to happen at the most inopportune times? Not now, Lord, we tend...

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Mastering the Emotional Effects of Negative Thinking

Mastering the Emotional Effects of Negative Thinking

Understanding the Emotional Effects of the Fall The emotional effects of the fall have had a persisting impact on all of humankind. Consider for a moment the following questions: Do you struggle with worry about minor matters or perhaps worry about things that might...

Ministry Transitions in Genesis 12

Ministry Transitions in Genesis 12

I’ve been thinking a lot about what it means to go into something new and leave the something old behind. I am in the middle of a ministry transition. After about 9 years on staff at my current local church (a church I also grew up in for about 9 years before being on...

Pastoral Commitment to Young Adult Groups

Pastoral Commitment to Young Adult Groups

During our five-year study, we witnessed constant negotiations be- tween young adult innovation teams and the larger congregational leadership structure. Those in senior leadership roles often struggled while learning how to engage with young adult leaders or...

Trusting God When Life Feels Uncertain

Trusting God When Life Feels Uncertain

“Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways submit to him, and he will make your paths straight.” (Proverbs 3:5-6, NIV) Why Trusting God Is Difficult I’ve been studying the topic of trust lately. And what I’ve...

Discovering Joy in Beauty and Salvation

Discovering Joy in Beauty and Salvation

You know it when you feel joy. She “jumps under one’s ribs and tickles down one’s back.” But joy dodges our attempts to pin her down. She is tricky to define. Trying to catch joy with a definition is like fishing with a shoelace, like trying to describe a friend to...

The Call to Be a Good Church

The Call to Be a Good Church

In 2001, Jim Collins published a book on business management titled Good to Great, concerning the steps companies had to take to be excellent institutions. This book became a bestseller and even influenced the American church, with many churches endeavoring to become...

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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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