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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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By Dr. George Crabb, Monday, May 19, 2025

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Why California AB 2943 Is a Threat to Free Speech Everywhere

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By Dr. Paul Chappell, Monday, April 30, 2018
This Bill Allows for Banning Biblical Books and Censoring Biblical Seminars and Preaching
I hope that by now you have seen California’s AB 2943 on the news or in your social media streams. This broad-sweeping piece of legislation is a threat to religious liberty and freedom of speech across the state and, by setting a precedent, across the country.
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10 Ways to Make Ministry a Family Affair

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By Sharon Rabon, Saturday, April 28, 2018
Intentionally Involving Your Children in the Ministry
The life I enjoy today started when I was young. I was reared in a Christian home and chose to marry a preacher when I was seventeen years of age. On many occasions I have had the privilege to teach teen girls. I always tell them, “You make the biggest decisions of your life when you are too young to make them.”
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Family Helps
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A Revival M.O.

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By Dr. Rick Flanders, Thursday, April 26, 2018
7 Items That Will Be Present in a Revived Church
When God sends revival to a church, there is a natural interest in prolonging the good effects of what has happened. One of the most important factors in extending the blessings of the revival is for the church to adopt what could be called “a revival M.O.”
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The Validation Trap

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By Dr. Paul Chappell, Monday, April 23, 2018
When I was a younger pastor, I loved serving the Lord. I lived full out for Christ and for the church the Lord allowed me to shepherd.
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Pastoral Leadership
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Encouraging Couples to Invest in Their Marriage

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By Gabriel Ruhl, Saturday, April 21, 2018
3 Ways Husbands and Wives Can Invest in their Marriage
As the leader of a couple’s class, new Christians will often ask me: “What are the main ingredients to having a happy marriage?”
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Family Helps
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Biblical Principles that Relate to Collaboration

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By Dr. R. B. Ouellette, Thursday, April 19, 2018
It seems there is a good amount of talk these days about people “collaborating.” Both collaboration and cooperation are legitimate and good words. To collaborate means to “co-labor, or to labor together.” To cooperate means “to operate together.”
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Five Ways to Convey Biblical Ministry Philosophy to Church Staff

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By Dr. Paul Chappell, Monday, April 16, 2018
One of the blessings of teamwork in local church ministry is the opportunity to invest in those who serve.
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Standing Together for Our Generation

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By Bruce Burkett, Friday, April 13, 2018
Modeling Your Ministry and Philosophy after Christ
What happened? I often contemplate this question when I consider the condition of many young leaders in my generation (and many in the generation before mine as well). It seems like my social media feeds often have reports from friends made in high school and Bible college or ministry colleagues who have gone hook, line, and sinker for some trendy, new philosophy of ministry.
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How Servant Leaders Serve Tomorrow’s Leaders

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By Dr. Paul Chappell, Monday, April 9, 2018
Investing in the Next Generation
The longer I serve in ministry, the more I recognize the value of working with young people. In fact, the longer I serve, the more I believe we should pour more of ourselves into serving our youth.
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Student Ministry
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God Still Works through Yielded Servants

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By Gordon Conner, Wednesday, April 4, 2018
Surrender Precedes Usefulness
Each time I read Exodus chapters three and four, I am reminded of the ongoing pattern of the work of God: in response to the cries of His people, God comes to do a mighty work of deliverance—and He did. The plagues of judgment upon Egypt, the dividing of the Red Sea, the giving of His Law, and provision of manna. All of these were mighty miracles that only the God of all power could accomplish.
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