What to Do When You Don’t Want to Love Your Spouse: Psalm 90:17 (NKJV)
And let the beauty of the LORD our God be upon us, And establish the work of our hands for us; Yes, establish the work of our hands. Psalm 90:17 (NKJV) Do you remember your first disagreement with your spouse? Maybe you felt undervalued or misunderstood. Maybe you thought your spouse could be doing a better job. Maybe you…
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What Difference Does Scripture Engagement Make?
“Engagement” is a buzzword in both business and the church these days. Companies want to ensure their employees are engaged because engaged employees are more passionate and productive, more team-oriented, and more committed to the mission and vision of the organization. Engaged employees aren’t just hired hands who come to work to punch a time clock. They’re invested on a…
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Our Words Can Be Helpful or Harmful
The following reflection can be the starting point for a small group encounter based on Ephesians 4:29-30. As a leader, make your own personal application and then help your group to come to grips with the challenges of shaping speech for the edification of their listeners. I grew up in a home where I learned at an early age that…
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Engaging Millennials to Reach Their Generation
Engaging millennials has been a growing concern for church leaders in the past several years, especially since in recent decades millennials are reported to be the fastest growing group of “nones”—the religiously unaffiliated. But while some millennials may be leaving the church, recent research by Billy Graham Center executive director Ed Stetzer reveals that among devout Christians, the number of…
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Engaging the Bible with the Saints
After nearly 30 years of pastoral and missionary ministry I had read many books, always interested in the latest contribution of the popular writers on pastoral ministry, Scripture engagement, and evangelization. During my last three years of active pastoral ministry, I made a commitment to read only writers that had written before I entered the ministry in 1983. I intentionally…
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Thank God it’s Thanksgiving!
Once again, we’ll do our turkey and football thing for Thanksgiving. And church leaders may complain about how this holiday misses the mark: It’s not really about gratitude but about plenitude. We celebrate our excess. Too much food and a house full of relatives. Maybe so, but somewhere in that day a tiny miracle might happen. A closed heart might…
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7 Simple Ways to Connect with the Bible
What takes a person from Bible reading to Bible engagement? How do the words on the page, or on the screen, become part of a conversation, the expression of a living relationship with a loving God? At one time or another, most of us have gone through the minimal Bible experience—the rote devotions, the perfunctory passage of the day—and we…
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