Author Archive
December 14, 2017 | by Guest Authors | Events, Family Enrichment, Pastoral Development
ChristianityToday.com/pastors/2017/november-web-exclusives/what-your-pastor-really-wants-for-christmas.html?utm_source BY:The editors of CTPastors.com This Christmas, forego the wooden praying hands, the cross-stitched Bible verses, and the clever bobble-heads. When we asked pastors what they wanted for Christmas, most of their answers fell into one of three categories: appreciation, rest, and time. So think twice before grabbing that last-minute Starbucks gift card; this list […]
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December 7, 2017 | by Guest Authors | Biblical Study, CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS, Evangelism, Historical Study, Pastoral Development, Scriptures, Shared Articles
http://seanmcdowell.org/blog/can-there-be-one-right-religion; Posted November 14, 2017 By: Sean McDowell Recently I was in a conversation with a friend, and he asked how I could say that Jesus is the only way. I simply responded, “I’m not saying it. Jesus said it. Take it up with him.” He certainly didn’t expect that response. And I didn’t […]
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November 28, 2017 | by Guest Authors | Family Enrichment, Pastoral Development, Shared Articles
http://blog.thrivingpastor.com/the-one-group-you-might-forget-this-christmas-2/?refcd=574803&utm_campaign=Thriving+Pastor By John McGee Nov. 27, 2017 The holiday season is upon us. As a pastor you have planned Christmas Eve services, prepared end-of-year reports, and been invited to more Christmas parties than you care to remember. With all of the activity involved in getting your church ready for Christmas, it can be easy to […]
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November 22, 2017 | by Guest Authors | Church Growth, Emotional healing, Evangelism, Family Enrichment, Moral issues, Pastoral Development, Prayer and Intercession, Shared Articles
By Phil Larson, as told to Frank Tunstall The world’s largest casino is located on I-35 at the Texas/Oklahoma border. It’s the economic powerhouse of the whole area. The casino also multiplies drunkenness, illegal drugs, gangs, shootings, prostitution, and every other form of sin. In short, broken families and abused children litter the landscape. I […]
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November 7, 2017 | by Guest Authors | Church Growth, Evangelism, Pastoral Development
https://www.christianitytoday.com/karl-vaters/2017/october/small-church-pastor-penalty-specialty.html?paging=off BY: KARL VATERS For years I bucked against the idea that I am a small church pastor. Instead of seeing it as my calling, my heart and my passion, I treated it like it was my penalty for not having the skills to be a big church pastor. So I consumed every church growth […]
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November 7, 2017 | by Guest Authors | Biblical Study, Evangelism, Historical Study, Pastoral Development, Research
http://www.christianitytoday.com/history/issues/issue-43/how-we-got-our-bible-christian-history-timeline.html Have you ever wondered how the Bible has developed through the centuries, so that we today have the Bible in English? Dr. Phillip Comfort does a good job tracing the development of the Bible in this chronology, up to the publication of the King James Bible in 1611. One of the major points of contention that […]
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October 17, 2017 | by Guest Authors | Historical Study, Middle East, Pastoral Development, Persecution of Christians, Prayer and Intercession, Shared Articles
constitution.com/million-poles-gather-pray-country-mainstream-media-calls-islamophobic/ By Onan Coca October 11, 2017 Almost 90% of the people in Poland identify as some denomination of “Christian” with about 87% of the population claiming to be Roman Catholic. So when more than 1 million Polish citizens gathered at the nation’s borders to pray for the future of their country, they were mostly praying as […]
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October 10, 2017 | by Guest Authors | Church Legal Issues, Finances, Pastoral Development, Shared Articles
www.utm_source=internal&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=blog&utm_content=irs_taxes_pastor_for_salary_he_never_received_2017_10_05 By: Raul Rivera This time of year we get an abundance of phone calls from pastors who have still not filed taxes or from those who feel they have prepared them incorrectly. Although ministry often requires pastors to “bring things to light,” I am amazed at how many pastors each year leave their taxes […]
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October 6, 2017 | by Guest Authors | Church Growth, Evangelism, Historical Study, Scriptures, Shared Articles
By: Onan Coca September 22, 2017 In an amazing display of solidarity with their history, more than 200,000 Ukrainians poured out on to the streets of Kiev to sing songs and to praise Jesus as they celebrated the 500th anniversary of the Protestant Reformation. (Something we will do here in the USA on October 31st.) Sergey Rakhuba […]
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September 20, 2017 | by Guest Authors | Church Legal Issues, Disaster Relief, Evangelism, Finances, Historical Study, Persecution of Christians, Shared Articles
christianitytoday.com/edstetzer/2017/september/this-dogma-wont-hunt-feinstein-durban-sanders-and-new-relig.html?utm_ So much for Article VI of the U.S. Constitution By: Ed Stetzer Sept 8, 2017 Christians will be applauded when they show up to feed, clothe, shelter, and encourage the battered victims of Harvey and Irma. As long as they keep their dogma in their hearts and not in their mouths, they are welcomed—but […]
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