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Psalms: Gritty Expressions of Agony and Woe! (Book 3)
Artwork Credit: thespiritualcoach.com Editor’s Note: We continue our series of blogs for those who are reading the Bible with us cover-to-cover this year. Interspersed with our thoughts on our daily reading, we want to provide some tips about reading the … Continue reading
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Tagged Agony, Bible, Bible study, Book 3, Christian, Despair, Old Testament, pain, Psalm Book 3, Psalms, Woe
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Healthy Church Attitudes
Artwork Credit: southsidenazarene.ca Yesterday we spoke of four common attitudes in the sick church. However, we also said that healthy churches grow, according to the New Testament: “And he gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the shepherds and teachers, … Continue reading
Posted in Church Health, Leadership Blog, Multi-ethnic / Urban
Tagged adapt, adaptable, attitude, attitudes, church growth, church health, evangelism, evangelistic, helpful, humble, love, loving, transparent, yielded
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Sick Church Attitudes
According to the New Testament, when a church is healthy is grows. “And he gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the shepherds and teachers, to equip the saints for the work of ministry, for building up the body of … Continue reading
Posted in Church Health, Leadership Blog, Multi-ethnic / Urban
Tagged Christian, church, church growth, church health, critical, Ephesians 4, ingrown, Kill-joys, selfish, sick church
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Psalms: Understanding Hebrew Poetry!
Artwork Credit: web.cn.edu Editor’s Note: We continue our series of blogs for those who are reading the Bible with us cover-to-cover this year. Interspersed with our thoughts on our daily reading, we want to provide some tips about reading the … Continue reading
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Tagged Bible, Bible study, Chiasm, Chiastic, Christian, Hebrew Poetry, Old Testament, Parallelism, Psalms, Strophe
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What Is Jesus’ Dream for Your Church?
Artwork credit: sundayschoolleader.com As a leader, you know what its like to want to see God move in a powerful way through your community. Many times we ask the wrong questions and fail to work with God towards his dream … Continue reading
Posted in Leadership Blog
Tagged Christianity, church dream, church growth, church health, dream, Great Commission
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Psalms: Intense Personal Intimacy With God! (Book 2)
Artwork Credit: houseoftitus.wordpress.com Editor’s Note: We continue our series of blogs for those who are reading the Bible with us cover-to-cover this year. Interspersed with our thoughts on our daily reading, we want to provide some tips about reading the … Continue reading
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Tagged desparate, failure, fiend, heartache, intimacy with God, joy, pain, shame, torture, tragedy, triumph, trust in God
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Evidences A Person Really Cares
Photo Credit: lagrange.edu Recently I have considering the question: “What drew 100s and 1000s of people to Jesus type of holiness?” It’s a question from Alan and Deb Hirsch’s book, Untamed! As I continue to think about the question, I … Continue reading
Posted in Leadership Blog
Tagged care, Christ-likeness, Christian, comfort, concern, confront, defend, empathize, Jesus, love, support
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Transformed Interviews Steve Gladen About Small Groups With Purpose!
Steve and Matt Photo Credit: Melodee Smith In today’s episode, we return to the world of the 1st century and try to discover how the early church exploded upon the Roman Empire so quickly. Matt’s guest today is Steve Gladen, … Continue reading
Posted in Book Reviews, Interviews, Small Groups, Transformed
Tagged Christianity, church growth, church health, Saddleback, small groups, Steve Gladen
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Do You Have a Dream for Your Church?
Artwork Credit: facebook.com Within the heart of most of the leaders of your church is a dream they long to see God fulfill in their midst. In reality, those dreams can fall into one of three categories. 3 Types of … Continue reading
Posted in Leadership Blog
Tagged christian leadership, christian ministry, church, church health, dream, dreaming, Leadership, ministry, ministry dream
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Psalms: Worship Manual for Life!
Editor’s Note: We continue our series of blogs for those who are reading the Bible with us cover-to-cover this year. Interspersed with our thoughts on our daily reading, we want to provide some tips about reading the Bible in general. … Continue reading
Posted in Bible Reading, Just Read It!
Tagged Bible, Bible study, Christian, difficulties, Old Testament, problems, psalm, Psalms, suffering
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