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The Painful Part of Wholeness
Pain is not the end of the Christian story. But it is a powerful character in our present chapters.
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How the Local Church Can Prepare Single Women for the Mission Field
“Intentional discipleship works two ways: it equips the woman who is going while simultaneously fostering an ethos of mission and responsibility in the women who stay.”
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How to Stack Your Leadership Pipeline With Your Best Volunteers and Team Members
Wherever I talk to leaders, they tell me one of their top challenges is finding enough people for their teams, particularly volunteers.
Then—usually within minutes—they...
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Conversations With Someone Not Ready to Change: Rolling With Resistance
Going directly after the problem with someone who doesn’t want to change only creates more resistance.
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The Missionary Legacy of Jim and Elisabeth Elliot
As my father wrote, “Lord, make my way prosperous not that I achieve high station, but that my life be an exhibit to the value of knowing God.”
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10 Questions to Refocus Your Life
Here are 10 questions I use to refocus my life each month during my monthly prayer and planning retreats in the mountains.
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God Remembers the Barren and So Should the Church
God enables seven women whom the Bible describes as “barren” to conceive for His divine purposes: Sarah, Rebekah, Rachel, Samson’s mother, Hannah, the Shunammite woman in 2 Kings and Elizabeth.
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Three Ways We Hide From God (and Others)
The purpose of being honest with God: to be taken from our embarrassing nakedness and clothed in Christ’s perfection.