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Trauma and the stress that can accompany it often keep an individual hyper-focused on the event, re-creating the trauma over and over, trying somehow to undo the feeling of helplessness and powerlessness through the negative ruminations.
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4 Goals of a Church Planter

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By Brian Leversee, Friday, April 2, 2010
How to Develop Your Ministry
From the moment you realize the call of God on your life to plant a church, you begin to develop a new mindset. It seems as though every passing thought and every new discovery is centered on getting this new church started. Dreaming begins, strategies are contemplated, and goals begin to be set.
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Top 10 Church Planting Questions

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By Mark Irmler, Tuesday, March 30, 2010
What is the pressing need of our generation? For every Christian to be a reproducing Christian, every pastor to be a reproducing pastor, and every church to be a reproducing church...
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Encouraging Others

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By Dr. Paul Chappell, Tuesday, March 30, 2010
3 Ways Your Life Can Encourage Those around You
The Apostle Paul wrote to the church in Rome about their relationships with others. He assured them they could have godly, Christ-honoring relationships...
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Demobilizing the Church

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By Dr. Rick Flanders, Tuesday, March 30, 2010
Don't Let the Direction of Your Church Shift
It is not difficult to see the spiritual battle that was going on as the church at Jerusalem sought to carry out the commission of her Lord in the early chapters of Acts.
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Pastoral Leadership
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Calling Sinners to Repentance

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By Dr. Rick Flanders, Tuesday, March 30, 2010
The Necessity of Repentance
The story of Levi Matthew helps us with the questions that have been raised about evangelism and personal holiness. When Levi answered the call, “Follow Me,” he immediately. . .
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A Packed House

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By Dr. Rick Flanders, Tuesday, March 30, 2010
Two Factors That Pack the House
Word went throughout the city that Jesus was in the house of Simon and Andrew, and soon the place was packed with people. The city of Capernaum, and particularly this house. . .
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Pastoral Leadership
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Adultery

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By Dr. Rick Flanders, Tuesday, March 30, 2010
The Hypocrisy of America
In the closing months of 2009, the man who earned the right to be named “Athlete of the decade” was caught in an embarrassing situation that exposed to the world that . . .
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Would You Die for It?

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By Dr. Rick Flanders, Tuesday, March 30, 2010
Obedience vs. Compromise
It seems that a distinction was first made by attorney David Gibbs years ago in a sermon he gave many times in churches and fundamentalist conferences all over America. He told the story of an Amish man named Yoder who defied . . .
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Mind Your Own Business

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By Dr. Rick Flanders, Tuesday, March 30, 2010
Get off the Planning Committee and Get on the Production Crew!
The Acts of the Apostles opens with the account of our Lord’s forty-day Bible conference with His apostles during which He taught them, “Things pertaining to the kingdom of God.” Wouldn’t you have loved to have been there with them?
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The Devil Loves Church Planting

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By Mark Irmler, Tuesday, March 30, 2010
Churches Must Plant Churches
The devil loves church planting. Mormon churches, Kingdom Halls, mosques, and doctrinally-weak Christian churches are all fruit of Satan’s plan to twist the true, biblical church-planting model. He inspires false teachers to spread a false gospel and a false church.
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