By Charles Stone on May 28, 2024
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"Unless you stay at the same church your entire life, you will leave one ministry or church and go to another, perhaps several times. I’ve learned that leaving is more of an art and is often difficult. Here are 7 insights I’ve learned that have helped me make a graceful exit."
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By Mary C. Wiley on Jun 24, 2024
"We live in a microwave meals, listen-to-podcasts-in-double-time world. We want more with less; work smarter not harder. However, the move forward or get left behind mentality of today is not a good transferrable principle for discipleship. Mostly because discipleship is all about people, and people can’t be boiled down to a series of tasks. People are messy and their needs aren’t linear."
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By Bill Couchenour on Mar 22, 2024
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The greatest threat to the church may not be external opposition but internal consumerism. Biblical discipleship demands recalibrating expectations, structures, and leadership.
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By Ray Hollenbach on Feb 28, 2026
Take ten minutes and write down the details from your preaching passage. Then ask yourself, “How can I help my listeners move from watercolor to the sharp clarity of oil?”
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By Ed Stetzer on Jun 24, 2025
True transformation is not moral improvement but new life in Christ. Scripture reveals that gospel change begins with regeneration and continues through lifelong sanctification.
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By Hal Seed on Aug 29, 2022
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You make a dozen decisions a day. How do you know what’s the right decision? What moves your church forward? What’s wasting time?
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By Joseph Mattera on Oct 7, 2025
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Some pastors preach messages that show they spend more time studying behaviorism and sociology than they do the Scriptures.
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By Carey Nieuwhof on May 18, 2024
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"If you’ve been in ministry for any length of time, you know the challenge of trying to move the mission forward and handle the pastoral needs of a congregation at the same time. One of the most perplexing problems pastors and church leaders face is how to handle ‘pastoral emergencies’—the crises that come up in the lives of people that they look to you to help solve."
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By SermonCentral .com on May 24, 2023
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"I was so moved that the desire to say it again another way kept urging me on. So I wrote this."
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