Outreach Leaders

We’ve experienced these hardships in our small, multi-national congregation in Dubai. As much as we grieve what the pandemic has cost us, I also see ways God has blessed us during this trial.

Everything in this life is temporary, fleeting, and repetitive. We want happiness, and we try learning, pleasure, and achievement to try to get them. But none of them ultimately give us the happiness we’re looking for.

All people have these thoughts a time or two, but those suffering with anxiety and depression let these “every now and then” thoughts turn into HABITUAL AND ACCUSING thoughts. They fester and become more sinister by the day. We suffer in silence and shame.

How often do you think about comforting your wife or your husband? God doesn’t want us to face the normal challenges of life without someone to help us. For the married, that means you have vowed to do what you can to serve your spouse.

They gather in small, unseen churches and in small groups from big churches. In homes and neighborhoods.

People prefer texting over talking. This is especially true in the United States. That's why you need to consider text marketing.

We are to confess our sin to God and trust Him to forgive us (1 John 4:9). My experience as a pastor and professor, though, has shown that some sins are tougher to recognize and confess.

When we come into his prayer meetings drunk – drunk on our ambition, our greed, our resentful grudges, our pornographic imaginations, our self-righteousness.