Bible Verses on Wisdom
Walk with God: “Let not thine heart envy sinners: but be thou in the fear of the LORD all the day long.” Proverbs 23:17
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Running a Church Is Harder Than Running a Business
Business analyst Peter Drucker once observed that the three most difficult leadership roles he could imagine were hospital administrator, university president, and church minister. His reasoning was simple: each role requires leaders to wear multiple hats while meeting wildly different, and often competing, expectations.
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Discerning Priorities by Spending Time with God
It’s staggering to contemplate the demands placed on Jesus’ life. Not only did He come to seek and to save the lost (Luke 19:10), but He was continually sought out by the multitudes. Naturally, once you heal a blind man and cleanse a leper, you’re pretty much in high demand!
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A Review of the Book by Paul Powell
I recently read a great little book. It isn’t exactly a book that is “hot off the press.” How To Make Your Church Hum was written in 1977, and it came into my possession the same way most of my books do—via a used bookstore. A few years ago I saw this book for sale, and its title caught my attention.
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Praise Comes from a Proper Focus
President Theodore Roosevelt delivered a speech in 1906 at the dedication of the office building for the House of Representatives in which he stated: “You may recall the description of the Man with the Muck-rake, the man who could look no way but downward with the muck-rake in his hands; who was offered a celestial crown for his muck-rake, but who would neither look up nor regard the crown he was offered, but continued to rake to himself the filth of the floor.”
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Don’t Tune God Out
I once read a sign in the lobby of a church that said: “When God speaks, He will not call your cell phone, so please turn yours off as you enter the auditorium.” I enjoyed that immensely but have also been convicted by its message. With all of the modern technology today ringing in our ears, I wonder if we would even recognize God’s voice if He did “call.”
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How to Infuse Joy into Your Church
All of us go through times when things just seem “down.” It may be that some folks have become unhappy and left the church. It may be that key people have moved away from the area. It may be that there has been a crisis or problem which has dampened the spirit of the ministry. What do we do during those times?
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God’s Acceptance Is All You Need and You Already Have it
You couldn’t be any more loved by God than you are right now. Does that statement strike a nerve of unrest with you? It’s absolutely true. We all love affirmation. We all desire significance and recognition. We all benefit from being encouraged by others. And yet, this silent struggle for approval can often become an over-riding motivation that keeps us on an unpredictable roller coaster of insecurity and instability.
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How to Turn Failure into a Learning Experience
When I was a teenager, our school participated in the presidential fitness test program. We did sit-ups and pull-ups, ran the fifty-yard dash, stretched our fingers past our toes, and accomplished a whole list of other exercises.
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Helpful Points for Making Missionary Prayer Cards
Remember that your prayer card is going to be in people’s Bibles, on their refrigerators, and every place in between for years to come. Here are some of the mistakes that we, and some of our missionary friends, have made. Learn from our errors!
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The Christian’s Life Should Magnify Christ
In Philippians 1:20, Paul shared that his desire was to magnify Christ in his body whether by life or death. He wanted to live as Christ desired him to live, and if he had to die for Christ, then so be it. Either way, Paul wanted to live so people could see Christ in his life.
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