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The Danger of Bypassing Your Emotions

Spiritual bypassing simply means that you use spiritual concepts, platitudes, or activities to “bypass” or avoid dealing with your true feelings, especially the hard ones like anger, grief, fear, loneliness, envy, and shame. Here are the dangers.

#1 Reason Why Your Church Isn’t Getting a Bigger Social Media Response

Here’s what you need to know about posting on social media and how to get a robust social media response.

The One Sentence Pastors Hate To Hear

There is one sentence you should never say to your pastor or church staff. Even as the first few words are spoken, the listener feels his or her emotions plummeting.

Desiring God: How to Have Intimacy With God

Our experience of God’s nearness or distance is not a description of his actual proximity to us but of our experience of intimacy with him. This is as true in our relationship with God as it is in our relationships with other human beings.

Preachers: Until Christ Be Sweet, Sin Will Not Be Bitter

Let us be truthful about sin. But let us preach Christ so wonderfully and beautifully that the bitterness of sin becomes obvious held next to the radiance of His splendor.

A Believer’s Wake-Up Call

Believers, get in the fight! There’s a battle raging, behind the veneer of this world. It’s a battle between believers and the forces of darkness for the souls of humanity.

5 Short-Timers Who Don’t Really Help Church Attendance

There are five types of individuals who are most likely to not stay very long. I’m afraid there is nothing in this article that will help you keep them. But perhaps, if you have advanced warning, their departure won’t hurt so much.

6 Results of Relational Evangelism

Traditional approaches are losing its impact on today’s teens who need and want more. Instead, let’s look at six things that happen when you switch gears and start to focus on relational evangelism.

7 Key Steps of Recruiting, Training and Retaining Church Volunteers

In my experience, there are three parts (Recruit, Train, Retain) to this process, so I’ve included my 7 Steps of recruiting, training and retaining church volunteers.

What Does the Bible Say About Domestic Violence?

What does the Bible say about domestic abuse victims? Despite it being a reality within the church, we have largely remained silent on the abuse so embedded in our homes and neighborhoods.

One Reason I’m Not Faithful in Evangelism

One reason we tend to be bad at evangelism is because we often try to call people to the grace of Jesus while at the same time being judgmental against them in our hearts.

100 Three-Word Posts for Online Outreach

To get your creative muscle amped, we’d like to get you thinking in even shorter bursts of truth for online outreach.

8 Signs You Love Legalism More Than Jesus

Legalism is adding anything to the gospel. Legalism in the church takes the words “Follow me” and adds stipulations, clauses and barriers. Find out the eight signs you love legalism more than Jesus.

Start Your Day With Listening to God

We need to hear from God before we hear from everybody else. That’s a good reason not to start the day by looking at email or text messages, but rather to start by listening to God by going to your primary inbox: Scripture.

Outreach Strategy for Advertising: 10 Helps

An outreach strategy uses advertising to help us tell the message of the church and the Christ of the church.

Building a Great Church Usher Team

In the same way that not just anyone can be on the worship team, work in children’s ministry or lead a small group, not just anyone can be a church usher. The right gifts, passion, and ability make a big difference.

‘Evangelize’ Is in the Bible; ‘Evangelism’ Isn’t

The word evangelize is used 52 times and the word “evangelist” is used a few times as well, but the word “evangelism” is as absent as a loudmouth in a boot camp for mimes.

Sharing Jesus in the Muddy Water of Modern Culture

I have a few gripes with some of the methodology that is prevalent out there today when it comes to sharing Jesus. The biggest, of course, is that many are not clear on the gospel of grace. But,  I guess, muddy water is better than no water at all.

12 Crazy Cool Church Outreach Ideas from Churches Just Like Yours

Whether you’re part of a big church or a small church, here are some great church outreach ideas to inspire you and energize your planning for the year.

8 Tried and True Practices to Lead up Well

When you lead up well, you are trusted more, empowered at a greater level, able to make a significant contribution, and rise in responsibility.

Rebecca McLaughlin on Whether Christians Can Agree To Disagree About Same-Sex...

Dr. Rebecca McLaughlin joins “The Stetzer ChurchLeaders Podcast” to talk about how church leaders can respond to common arguments that use the Bible to affirm same-sex relationships, the “why” behind God’s design for marriage, and the “beautiful and glorious vision” Christianity has for friendship.

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