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If You Want Ministry to Last, Give It Away
I was a youth pastor at the time. And we were growing. Teens were coming to know Jesus almost every week it seemed. Another church in the area asked me to come to help them vision what youth ministry...
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What If Our Church Building Was a Field?
“When you reap the harvest of your land, do not reap to the very edges of your field or gather the gleanings of your harvest. Do not go over your vineyard a second time or pick up the grapes that have...
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When Preaching Hide the Shark, Don’t Jump It
Growing up I had a steady diet of Fruity Pebbles and Nick-at-Nite television. One of the shows I watched was Happy Days. So I was kind of excited to see the other day an entire channel dedicated to...
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10 Characteristics of a Narcissist
One of the most helpful books I’ve read in the past 5 years is When Narcissism Comes to the Church by Chuck DeGroat. Much of the emotional and spiritual abuse that happens comes from the hands of those...
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What Does Narcissism Look Like in a Church?
Yesterday, we looked at a few characteristics of a narcissist and also outlined a narcissist cycle of abuse. What happens when someone who is fixated on themselves enters your community or becomes your...
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A Simple Discipleship Plan
One of my favorite stories to tell when I’m trying to inspire a congregation to engage the work of children is this one. L.R. Scarborough tells a story from the ministry of D.L. Moody: “Mr. Moody tells...
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How We Lost the Conversation on Human Sexuality
“Father, why’d you get so upset at that man who helped the lady?” Everyone else seemed to be celebrating at synagogue when the visiting teacher had helped Miss Ruth. But not his dad. His father, a...
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From One Table To Another, Or How to Change An Opinion
I want to make a modern-day Matthew (Levi). But we aren’t as united as they were in first century Jerusalem. If you wanted to provide a stock image of a hated member of society a tax collector was an...
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Deconstruction and Filling the Gap
“And the younger of them said to his father, ‘Father, give me the share of property that is coming to me.’ And he divided his property between them.” (Luke 15:12) When I read that verse I think about...
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Of Basketballs And Jesus’ Rescue
When I was a little boy, and reader I mean little boy, I was at the park playing basketball by myself. A group of bigger kids came and took my basketball and started playing a game, quickly edging me...
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