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- 1. The Simplest Way to Reach the Broken
- ... evotionals at PastorRick.com. He is also the founder of Pastors.com, a global online community created to encourage pastors. For the original article, visit pastors.com. ...
- Created on 25 February 2020
- 2. Rick Warren: 3 Lessons You Can Learn From a Difficult Christmas Season
- ... ing with this Christmas. Let God heal you, so He can use you to heal others. God will use your pain to draw you closer to other believers. This is another truth you've seen through Celebrate Recovery. God w ...
- Created on 20 December 2019
- 3. How Churches Can Get Out of Alignment
- ... ck or it's just simple genetics—we all have a need for the occasional alignment. Our churches are the same. There are constant shifts in our staff team, our congregation and our community. We wake up one mor ...
- Created on 11 December 2019
- 4. 7 Ways to Love Your Community ...
- Church leaders should love their churches where they are now, not where they wish their congregations could be in the future. That's a given, or at least should be. But what about the community? Churc ...
- Created on 13 November 2019
- 5. Your Biblical Mandate to Serve People With Mental Illness
- ... is unconditional and unending. God doesn't say, "I love you if ..." God loves us because it's who He is. We get well in community. The Bible reminds us of this constantly. Paul writes, "Bear one another's ...
- Created on 31 October 2019
- 6. Why Your Church May Not Be as Evangelism-Focused as You Think
- Evangelism has the ability to make some of us very uncomfortable. We worry about offending people. We agonize over saying something wrong, unorthodox or unhelpful that might end up leading someone further ...
- Created on 15 October 2019
- 7. Florida Coffee Shop Brews Up a Noble Kingdom Cause
- ... w, but God's called us to do this. So we just need to get up and walk." A Testimony and a Hope And get up and walk the Kadolphs did—but not without challenges, including some from the Christian communit ...
- Created on 10 September 2019
- 8. 10 Surprising Questions Church Leaders Are Asking
- ... basis at Church Answers. Indeed, at times, a new question or comment comes up every five minutes in our 24/7 community. We have a team of subject-matter experts responding. The community responds to eac ...
- Created on 09 September 2019
- 9. How Your Church Can Better Reach Your Local Community ...
- Perhaps the most common question I get in church revitalization goes something like this inquiry: "What do I do to get people in the community to come to our church when our members don't live in or ne ...
- Created on 13 August 2019
- 10. Why Lucifer's Lie May Be Blocking Your Growth
- Most people have a desire to grow, but very few know how to do it. Growth requires change, and most people are change resistant. Growth occurs best when people are part of a community. This is because ...
- Created on 29 May 2019
- 11. This Church Prayed a Radical Prayer—And Saw a Radical Reward
- ... nt scale. We start to judge the success of what we do in the community by how many families it draws to our church. That's not necessarily a bad thing, but I started to wonder, What if we measured a diffe ...
- Created on 10 October 2018
- 12. How This Bible Verse Guides One Woman's Christ-Centered Fashion Line
- ... to every area of their lives—whether in raising their two toddlers, Nahla and Matthew; serving the Chicago community through their What's Your Forte? Foundation; or providing moms stylish designs made ...
- Created on 09 October 2018
- 13. How the Church Can Help Fix the Refugee Crisis
- "A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another, even as I have loved you, that you also love one another. By this all men will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another" ...
- Created on 24 September 2018
- 14. Ministry Leaders Step Up as Thousands Lose Everything in Century's Worst Flood
- GFA-supported workers (Gospel for Asia, gfa.org) are stepping up efforts to help with rescue and relief efforts in India's flood-stricken Kerala state, as the death toll and number of displaced people ...
- Created on 22 August 2018
- 15. Let's Help Bethel Give to Every Family Who Lost Home in Redding Fire
- ... rt" podcast so he could share what his church is doing to support and help heal its community. Eric says that the night the fire first broke out was traumatic for the entire community. Almost half the city—40 ...
- Created on 20 August 2018
- 16. 7 Common Traits of Healthy Teams
- ... m, I know I can't ignore it.) Celebratory atmosphere. Laughter builds community. A team needs time just to have fun together. And, there needs to be a freedom for spontaneous (and planned) celebration. ...
- Created on 12 July 2018
- 17. Francis Chan: Why Do Gangs Offer Better Fellowship Than the Church?
- Francis Chan relates the story of a man who converted to Christianity after being a gang member, only to be disillusioned and disappointed when he found that the gang offered better community than the ...
- Created on 13 June 2018
- 18. Great Church Groups Have These 2 Emotional Ingredients
- ... d of emotions in very close proximity to one another, if not simultaneously. How does your group (staff team, community group, co-workers, family) handle simultaneous events that are polar opposites emotionall ...
- Created on 29 March 2017
- 19. 4 Questions to Help You Improve Your Church-Wide Communication
- Most of us live in close proximity to our smartphones. We are constantly inundated with information and instantaneously have access to more data than we can absorb in a lifetime. Communication has become ...
- Created on 09 January 2017
- 20. How You Can Recognize Spiritually Receptive People in Your Community ...
- Pastor, you're surrounded by dirt. To be more precise, you're surrounded by soil—all kinds of soil. In your community, you have people who are ready to respond to the gospel and people who aren't. Your ...
- Created on 06 January 2017
