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Reaching Your Community With the Gospel of Love
You can’t always blame culture for your church’s lack of growth.
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Does Your Church Love the Unclean?
A church that fails to minister to the undeserving is a church without a harvest of souls.
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Upgrade Your Church Culture
Building a culture in your church that truly glorifies God takes passionate devotion.
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Church. Not Just a Routine
Is church a Sunday routine or a life-changing opportunity to worship the Creator?
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Are You Praying For Spirit-led Conviction?
Does your church pray for the Holy Spirit to call souls to Christ?
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Self Care Begins With Friend Care
How do we make the most of the friendships God has so generously given us?
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5 Judgement-Free Ways to Love the Lost
What would you do if you witnessed injustice, judgement and hypocrisy?
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Debunking the Top 6 Critiques of the Bible
God was intimately involved in the process of determining the canon of the Bible.
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Sicarii: Who Were These Assassins?
They wanted their independence from Rome, and they would do anything to get it.
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Are the Attributes of God Important? Part Two
Truly knowing who God is affects your prayers, your worship, and your spiritual growth.
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Bible Tidbits: Who were the Zealots?
Don’t let politics destroy unity among believers.
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Seekers Part Four: Discipleship and the Church
Christ is the ultimate seeker. He seeks and saves the lost.
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Seekers Part Three: God Seeks and Saves
God is seeking worshipers, making disciples, and shepherding His people.
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Seekers Part One: Your Church’s Recruiting Strategy
Evangelism is not optional for the church.
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One Church Survey, One Pastor and 4 Foundational Truths
Your home tells a story.
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4 New Testament Reasons We Freely Give
Tithing really means giving BACK to God.
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What Does Jesus Want Your Church to Do?
Christ is the ultimate seeker. He seeks and saves the lost.
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Is Pursuing the Lost Your Church’s Vision?
A vision statement doesn’t guarantee that your church will be a visionary congregation.
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What Are People Looking For in a Church?
Church is the people of God coming together to worship God and living out His mission.
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Here Are 4 Foundational Truths on Which to Build Our Churches
Biblical success is doing everything for God’s glory.
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3 Timeless Functions of a Ministry Leader
How do you lead your sheep to where God wants them to be as they follow Him?
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What Happens between the Old and New Testaments?
Ever wondered what went on between Malachi and Matthew? Check this out . . .
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Making the Lord’s Prayer Intentional and Meaningful
The Lord’s Prayer is more impactful when you let it guide your daily time with the Father.
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The Old Testament Helps Us Understand the New Testament
A Christian’s identity is linked directly to the Old Testament, so why do we neglect it?
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Love in a Lost and Broken World: Final Week of the Advent
It’s not too late to love people who only know difficulty and strife, and who need Jesus.
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Christians Do Not Fear Science
Believers are called to faithfully live in but not of the world and testify to God’s truth.
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5 Ways to Truly Be in God’s Presence
Accomplishing God’s call on our lives requires an intimate, prayerful relationship with him.
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What is Your Church’s Disciple Making DNA?
A healthy church should be obedient to what God has clearly commanded: making disciples
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Is God Really Present in Your Church?
Leaders, do everything necessary, pay any price, to build a church where God is pleased to dwell.
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It’s Past Time to Double Down on Prayer
As the world’s darkness intensifies, the world’s Christians should be intensely praying.
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What Has Prayer Ever Done to Change the World?
Prayer could be the secret weapon to life-changing transformation in the lives of those around you.
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Jesus’ Command to Go, Tell, and Disciple is For Pew Sitters Everywhere
The Great Commission doesn’t say one word about a Christian’s church attendance.
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Being Certain and Being Right Are Two Different Things
My objective that day was to get to the hospital in downtown Chicago before the surgery to have prayer with […]
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Five Ways to BE the Church
We weren’t made to live in isolation but in community, so intentionally love and serve others.
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5 Myths About Why You Go to Church
Core values are principles and convictions that you have for both your life and your ministry. They are values focusing […]
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7 Things to Do While You Wait
We’ve all had to wait. Wait in line for a package, for test results. Waiting isn’t fun. We are impatient […]
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It’s Time to Be Selfless, Submissive, and Serving
The moment we commit ourselves to live for Christ is simultaneously the moment we resolve to die to ourselves. The […]
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This is How a Church Should Actually Function
We are commanded by Christ to “make disciples,” but somewhere along the way, making disciples became counting converts to some. […]
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Here’s How You Know if Your Church is Sick
There are many examples of people who thought they were healthy but when they visited the doctor it was the […]
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Surrender the Fight and be Declared the Winner
I’ve fought my share of fights over the years. Some were necessary. Some were stupid. Some I won. Some I […]
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The Church Needs a Little Drama
Joey B was an active participant in the worship and lecture at a recent seminar I attended. If he heard […]
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Not a Suggestion But a Command: Multiply
When churches become healthy, thriving, and begin to live “sent” they accept the mission God has given them. They realize […]
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All-Bark-No-Bite Christianity
The United States is one of the only countries in the world where the church is in decline. There are […]
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Your Pastor’s Three Greatest Prayer Needs
In July of 2018 my pastor at Antioch in Conway, Arkansas, Dr. Jason Aultman, asked each of the national and […]
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10 Tips to Wean Yourself Off Spiritual Milk
Many churches have a diet problem. I am talking about the spiritual diet. I think we need to think of […]
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Be Careful Where You Lean
I love the story of The Lorax, by Dr. Seuss, and one of the most impactful lines comes in an exchange […]
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The “No Big Deal” Sin of Gossip
Some sins are extremely common and even accepted as “no big deal” within the church. None of these sins would […]
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Christian Service is Impossible Without Worship
At my local church, it is made clear that every member of the body is expected to serve the Lord […]
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Becoming a Sacrifice
If you have accepted Him as your Savior, you have a duty to be holy, to be set apart from the rest of this world for His glory.
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Pastor, Are You Feeling the Weight of Decisions?
Are you feeling the weight of making a lot of decisions and being unsure of those decisions, along with their […]