Be one. Build many.
Because all of us are prone to idolatry, we are likely more prone to one expression of sin than the other. If you are prone to laziness, you likely enjoy comfort and leisure more than accomplishment and the grind. As I have offered four ways to fight being a ministry workaholic, here are four ways to fight being lazy in ministry.
Eric Geiger
If you’re to teach well, you must first find God for yourself in His Word and in your life. Then, out of that you can teach others. Only then will your teaching be life.
Malcolm Webber
During a trip to Cuba, I was able to spend time with local leaders. All together, we served about 150 pastors that represented conservatively over 8,000 people in their churches. Here’s what I learned.
Charles Stone
With everything going on in your life it is important to think about your life’s goal, your life’s influence, and your death. What am I doing and what am I doing that is unique? What is the significance of your life on this earth?
Brent Hoover
We are all restoration projects, but disdain and run from the remodeling. It is too close, too painful. We do not value what God is working to produce in us.
Elaine Vitikainen
Many churches have lost one important thing in the pursuit of becoming missional – a true dependency on the all-sufficiency of the Bible. Following attractional, missional, or invitational models, churches become derailed from the central purpose that Scripture gives believers – knowing God by His Spirit in a Christ-centered community.
Brent Hoover
Do you struggle with having a healthy fear of God? This holistic design will help.
Malcolm Webber
In Part 2 of this series, we examine the final three attributes of The Perfect Father revealed in His statements to His Son.
Gary Russell
An examination of God the Father’s words to His Son. What can we learn from their relationship that will impact our own relationships with our parents and children?
Gary Russell
If you are a leader, you will face turbulence in your ministry or organization. Sometimes the turbulence feels so intense that leading seems impossible. Here are four essentials for leading through the turbulence.
Charles Stone
Listen to our new episode of In the Word with Malcolm Webber.
Malcolm Webber
From before time as we know it through all of eternity, God’s attributes remain unchanged. He never gets “better” or “worse.” His plans and promises do not change, ever! His promises were true for Abraham, Moses, and David and they are true for you and me.
Lisa Nagle
There’s a lie floating around out there that goes something like this: getting older will automatically make you closer to Jesus. Just the mere passing of days doesn’t do that. I sure wish it were that easy.
Alan Briggs
A leader helps someone move from where they are now to somewhere else. But what do leaders actually do to cause this to happen? Find out more in this brief excerpt from Leading by Malcolm Webber.
Malcolm Webber
As I look at the way I have typically treated myself – when I review the way I think about myself – I realize that I haven’t seen myself as someone the Father of the Lord Jesus delights in. My preoccupation is not with God’s goodness, with His love for which no adjective is sufficient; my preoccupation is on the many ways I blow it – [...]
Rev. Kevin McClure
Burned out and frustrated Christian leaders are now recognizing that they have been absorbed in His work more than in His Person. Our training programs might harness the latest and greatest of human wisdom and methods, but if we do not bring our emerging leaders into face-to-face encounters with the Son of God, lives will not be changed. [...]
Malcolm Webber
In the desert with little water and scarce food, it is a struggle to survive, and that can lead to discouragement. God never wanted life for Jewish leaders to be such a struggle when they came back from Babylon, but they were measuring their problems against their own puny strength rather than measuring them against our mighty God. They [...]
Raj Chelvaraj
Even in the midst of restructuring, divestment and redundancy programs during COVID, here are the four key ingredients of trust that high trust leaders still lived out.
Rick James
Paul Tripp discusses how to fit mission into your schedule without causing it to become one more thing on the to-do list.
Paul Tripp