Saturday Suggestions: December 17, 2016
Don’t miss these posts about celebrating Christmas (including thoughts about not buying your spouse a gift), managing millennials, and expressing appreciation.
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10 Church Growth Myths We’ve Heard
Over the years my Lawless Group team has been doing consultations, we’ve heard many commonly held ideas about church that have ultimately proven to be myths. Here are a few of them.
Read More12/16/16 Do Good
READING: Titus 1-3, Philemon 1 The transforming power of the gospel changes us on the inside, but that internal change must be evidenced in our…
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10 Church Myths We’ve Heard
Over the years my Lawless Group team has been doing consultations, we’ve heard many commonly held ideas about church that have ultimately proven to be myths.
Read More12/15/16 Finishing Well
READING: 2 Timothy 1-4 “Finish well.” I use those words a lot when I train students and missionaries. I’ve seen the enemy mow down so many leaders in the battle that I’ve realized…
Read More12/14/16 False Teaching and Unqualified Leaders
READING: 1 Timothy 1-6 Paul loved Timothy deeply as a “true son in the faith” (1 Tim 1:2), and he trusted him with the responsibility to confront false teachers. The apostle wrote this first letter…
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6 Ways to Celebrate Christmas in the Midst of Holiday Craziness
I didn’t always enjoy the Christmas season as a pastor. I loved telling the story of the Christ child, but my introversion made me uncomfortable with numerous parties, and my waistline made me anxious about far-too-many holiday meals.
Read More12/13/16 All That Matters
READING: 2 Thessalonians 1-3 Back in the 1970s, many of us worked overtime to determine who the Antichrist would be (the “man of lawlessness” of…
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11 Reasons to Love the Senior Adults in Your Church
Occasionally, I speak in a church that is predominantly senior adults. Each time I do, I think about how a church like that is going to survive – but I also remember why senior adults matter.
Read More12/12/16 A Missionary Heart
READING: 1 Thessalonians 1-5 I read this book today, and all I can think about are missionaries. Paul, of course, was a missionary who spent three Sabbaths preaching…
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