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Navigating Church Communications
For many pastors in small churches, one word often describes their experience with church communications: overwhelming. The landscape is filled with countless options, each claiming...
Welcome to Change – The New Normal
One thing hasn’t changed and never will….we know who brings us tomorrow, and the next day, and the next. We know who created our world and everything in it.
Pray – Listen –Obey
There is a simplicity to prayer that many fail to grasp, it is just talking to God. For many the ways we are taught or have experienced have been formal…
The Leadership Gift and Equipping Gifts
As you think about this vital distinction between (a) the spiritual gift of leadership and (b) those who have a leadership effect through an equipping gift, here are a few more important considerations:
Leading Successfully without the Gift of Leadership
There are many in leadership positions who do not have the spiritual gift of leadership? Are they in the wrong role? Have we understood the nature of biblical leadership?
Pathways: Empowering “Unusual” Pastors
When it comes to ordination, do people go into ministry roles at predictable times in their lives? Not according to the Bible.
Beware of Reductionism
Article 12 of the Belgic Confession (AD 1561) highlights from Scripture the…
5 Invitations in the Moment
Based on the surveys from our first conference together, the overwhelming…
MISSIONAL VISION: CHURCH LEADERS AS MISSION EQUIPPERS
When the Reformation kicked off, one of the elements of reforming the Church…
God's Children Are Not for Sale...why we should encourage everyone to see The Sound of Freedom
This prophetic pronouncement by Jim Caviezel playing Tim Ballard in this true…
“Watching Church” Is A Spiritual Oxymoron
It's been said that golf doesn't only produce character; it "reveals" it. The same…
Leadership Responsibilities - "Watchmen on the Wall"
Ezekiel 33:1-9 may not be a well-known passage, but in the times in which we…
WHAT CAN WE DO?
I vividly remember one of my first Consistory meetings. I was about 26 years old…
Changing the Conversation by Focusing on Service
“For who is greater, the one who is at the table or the one who serves?
Three Prayers and the Stirring at Asbury
Many of us have been captivated by the stirrings of the Spirit that are happening at…
If My people pray
This is a perspective from another brother in Christ. A blog about prayer should…
Origins: A Movement Begins…
This is the story of the movement that became the Alliance of Reformed Churches…
Thank You for Your Faithfulness
Pastor Shawn Hulst (Fellowship / Hudsonville, MI) does a great job appreciating the…
Don’t Waste Your Departure
Leaving the problems of the mainline behind only has value to the degree that…