Free Advent Resources to Launch Your Christmas Season
These exclusive free advent resources from OUTREACH, INC. will help you prepare your church and congregation for a spiritually-minded holiday season.
Every Pastor’s Trap: Busyness
Busyness can become an identity. It may be how you’re known. We hear people say to us, “Oh, you’re always so busy,” and we feel both a sense of pride and sense of wanting anything other than busyness for ourselves.
Without Discipleship, Your Church Is the Fellowship of Low Expectations
Discipleship, we suppose, is for those few super-saints called into the ministry, and so we are trapped in the fellowship of low expectations.
From MinistryTech.com: HOW TO PICK THE RIGHT ChMS
If you are interested in a quick ChMS selection guide, MinistryTech.com has an easy-to-use tool.
17 Symptoms of a Toxic Team Culture
Great leaders take responsibility for bringing clarity to their team culture. How do you know if you’ve got a healthy volunteer and staff team culture, or a toxic team culture?
Pornography and Church Discipline: Is it Ever Appropriate?
For all the time and prayers, hopes and hugs, promises and good intentions, resolutions and moral resolve—nothing seems to happen. It all appears futile. Is there ever a time to connect pornography and church discipline?
3 Reasons to Outline Your Sermon Before You Write It
There’s a bridge between sermon preparation and whatever form of sermon writing that you do. That’s why you should outline your sermon.
Free eBook: “Ministry Resources for Women” by Laura Krokos
Download and share this free eBook with your church community, “Ministry Resources for Women” by Laura Krokos.
Church Planting: A Place of Uncertainty
When it comes to the future being uncertain, that pretty much sums up life, doesn’t it? It’s possible that you’re in a place of uncertainty right now.
Church Planting: The Family Business
He entrusts us with the task of announcing his kingdom, and making disciples fit for the king. He does not entrust this task to servants: He gives it to brothers. In a way, that means church planting is the family business.
Ministry Isn’t a Marathon: Sometimes the Most Spiritual Thing You Can Do Is Take a Break
While well-meaning and good-intentioned, I’ve now come to find this statement to not only be inaccurate, but potentially destructive. Maybe ministry isn’t a marathon.
