2016
January 27, 2016 | by Guest Authors | Family Enrichment, Pastoral Development, Shared Articles
[Editor’s note: I have deleted from this article the stats, since they are covered in Josh McDowell’s research.] By: Mark Haviland Our families are under full-blown assault and our children are becoming the greatest casualties! This is such a large and complex subject to cover and we will only scratch the surface within this article, […]
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January 26, 2016 | by Guest Authors | Family Enrichment, Pastoral Development, Shared Articles
A COMPREHENSIVE, GROUNDBREAKING NEW SURVEY ON AMERICANS, THE CHURCH, AND PORNOGRAPHY: Impact of Internet Pornography on American Population and the Church BY: Josh McDowell Ministries which commissioned the Barna Group to do this study (New York, NY – January 19, 2015). In the most comprehensive, ground-breaking, in-depth and wide-ranging study to date on pornography among the […]
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January 18, 2016 | by Guest Authors | Biblical Study, Family Enrichment, Pastoral Development, Shared Articles
Even when my wife was unfaithful, I continued to experience the faithful love of God. By: Craig Keener / January 15, 2016 Most people know me as a New Testament scholar. To keep my reading of Scripture balanced, however, I do most of my devotions from the Old Testament. Indeed, I have encountered God especially […]
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January 14, 2016 | by Frank Tunstall | Historical Study, Missions
By Frank G. Tunstall Can God answer the earnest prayers of a native African in South Africa, doing it with the birth of a baby boy 9600 miles away in the rolling red hills of northwestern Georgia in the USA? This story will give the answer. Back in the foothills of the Drakensburg/Soutpansberg mountain range […]
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January 13, 2016 | by Guest Authors | Church Growth, Pastoral Development, Shared Articles
By: Gordon McDonald Marathon runners speak of “hitting the wall,” a moment in a race when the body appears to have exhausted all of its energy and pleads to quit. I borrow this phrase when I recall a life-altering experience I had one Saturday morning in my fourth year as a pastor. For me, hitting […]
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January 13, 2016 | by Guest Authors | Biblical Study, Church Growth, Shared Articles
Ed Stetzer is talking about what he sees as the lost passion today for soul winning evangelism in the evangelical community. As you read, ask yourself about your experience in the Pentecostal revival and its outreach today. To use Stetzer’s phrase, the evangelical community has fallen on “hard times.” Are we different, holding firmly in prayer to the zeal of […]
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January 6, 2016 | by Guest Authors | Church Growth, Family Enrichment, Shared Articles
Jon Nielson, College Pastor at College Church in Wheaton, Illinois, gives three very helpful insights into successfully passing the torch. – Pastor Frank By Jon Nielson “What do we do about our kids?” The group of parents sat together in my office, wiping their eyes. I’m a high school pastor, but for once, they weren’t […]
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January 6, 2016 | by Frank Tunstall | Biblical Study, Family Enrichment, Historical Study
By: Frank Tunstall It is a striking fact of ancient history that at the very time God was destroying Sodom and Gomorrah, He was also birthing a new nation from the seed of Abraham and Sarah. Baby Isaac was born the same year Sodom perished in the flames of brimstone from heaven (see Genesis 18 […]
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