Pastors
Finding Happiness in Christ Is Not Automatic
Happiness comes naturally in the same sense that fruit comes naturally from a tree. If the tree gets sufficient sunshine and water, if the ground is rich in nutrients, if the tree doesn’t contract diseases, then yes, it “naturally” produces fruit.
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Hurting Pastors – 11 Pains of Being a Pastor
Nobody except a pastor can fully understand the excitement that comes with a first pastorate. What I didn’t know then, though, was that the pastorate often brings its own types of pain capable of hurting pastors.
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3 Things That Happen When We Forget Jesus Is Alive
This weekend, we celebrated the most crucial, world-changing, heart-rendering, paradigm-shifting, life-reorienting truth in the universe: Jesus is alive.
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Why Does Jesus Call the Canaanite Woman a Dog?
I’ve always been a bit unsettled by Jesus’ reference to the Canaanite woman as a “dog.” But I noticed something a few nights ago when our associate pastor was teaching on this passage. I’d never noticed this thread before and I think it’s actually the key to understanding the passage
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Preaching About It *IS* Doing Something About It
It seems like all “we” do is preach about problems without actually doing something about them.
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5 Marks of Relevant Churches
Central to the mission of the Church is offering a compelling witness to the life-saving and life-transforming power of the gospel message. In other words, we are called be relevant.
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R.C. Sproul: What Is the Kingdom of God?
Since God is the Creator of all things, the extent of His realm must be the whole world. Manifestly, then, the kingdom of God is wherever God reigns, and since He reigns everywhere, the kingdom of God is everywhere.
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The Great Evangelical Disaster
In 1984, Francis Schaeffer wrote a book titled "The Great Evangelical Disaster." It was a jolting shift from cultural critique to cultural confrontation with clear political overtones.
