Step 1: Pray and Review Pray. We have an amazing privilege as Christians to integrate our planning with prayer. Prayer is essential for our planning, because God is the one who ultimately makes our plans effective. (See Proverbs 16:3). Begin your weekly planning as a time of prayer, asking God […]
May this sermon help you improve the quality, freshness, and variety of your pulpit ministry, and better meet the spiritual needs of those in your congregation. Sermon Title: A Quality of Discipleship — Astuteness Text: “I tell you, use worldly wealth to gain friends for yourselves, so that when it is gone, […]
Many skills make for an effective minister, but there is one without which everything else we do is useless: make disciples. Apart from that, all the money we raise, buildings we build, ministries we organize, sermons we preach and songs we write won’t move the mission forward. Without that one […]
I had been a pastor for ten years when I realized I didn’t believe in heaven. My mother had died, and the devastation I felt at first was normal, understandable. But then, it hung on, and eventually grew into the dark, clinging despair of depression. I knew I shouldn’t feel […]
Most leaders search out books on leadership to discover new tools, ideas, or skills. We are charged with the task of knowing what to do next, knowing why it is important, and then bringing the necessary resources to bear to make it happen. Yet the first and most difficult task […]
May this sermon provide assistance to you as you seek to improve the quality, freshness, and variety of your pulpit ministry. Sermon Title: Three Looks at the Lord’s Supper Text: “But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of that bread, and drink of that cup” [1 […]
