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Using Contextualized Language
By Ed Stetzer on Apr 18, 2024
This article is the third of six in a series on preaching in light of cultural shifts and biblical illiteracy.
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Four Mistakes Pastors Make In Giving A Gospel Invitation
By Dr. Larry Moyer on Apr 17, 2024
I have spent more than 40 years in evangelism and specifically evangelistic preaching. Interacting with pastors across the world has been one of the greatest privileges I enjoy. From that experience, I would like to share the four common mistakes pastors make in giving a gospe linvitation at the conclusion of a message.
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Running The Race With God Beside Me: Eric Liddell’s Journey Of Faith - Part 3
By Duncan Hamilton on Apr 16, 2024
Two years ago I travelled China’s Shandong Provence; specifically to the city that Eric Liddell knew as Weihsien and which is now called Weifang. I walked around the site of the camp where he died of a brain tumour six months before the Second World War ended. The earth that held him during that war holds him still. No one can identify where Liddell was buried. So, instead of a grave, he has a monument – an enormous slab of rose granite shipped from the Isle of Mull in the Hebrides.
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When A Pastor Is A Growth Barrier - Part One: Dealing With Sin
By Ed Stetzer on Apr 15, 2024
I have worked for a long time to help pastors with growth barriers in their church. They can be anything from worship issues to strategy to theology and more. So many barriers can get in the way of a church growing, but a central one isn’t found in the processes of the church. There may be a number of reasons a ministry grows cold and a church slows down. But often, the heart of the problem is the heart of the pastor.
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6 Things I Heard That Convinced Me We Needed A New Church Website
By Joanna Gray on Apr 13, 2024
As church communicators we’re constantly looking for ways to make the ministry better not only for visitors, but for our church members as well. There are always little hints and quips here and there that our church family members say that give us a not-so-gentle nudge toward what we should be doing to better the ministry and further the mission.
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