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4 Ways Your Church Can Utilize Social Media To Reach More People For God’s Glory

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Does your church or ministry utilize social media to share the Gospel and inform the public of how God is moving in your church? There is a pretty basic but highly effective formula to using social media to help your church or ministry reach more people for God’s Kingdom.  The formula consists of the following… [...]

Ways In Which God Can Be Glorified In A Christian’s Death

Foxe Book of Martyrs

I have recently been reading Foxes’ Book Of Martyrs and, as a result, I’ve been both appalled and challenged in my witness for Jesus Christ. Foxe accounts for us a brief biography about a young man’s faith that is not only graphic but also rather convicting spiritually.  At least for me. Some 1,800 years after [...]

The Difference Between “Pleasing” God And Giving God “Pleasure”

Every Christian wants to please God, without question. No Christian ever wakes up in the morning and says, “I wonder how I can make God angry with me this morning?”  That just doesn’t happen.  Ever. But how often do we, as Christians, wake up in the morning and say, “How can I live my life [...]

Christian Cartoon: THE PREACHER

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Everyone wants to be heard.  Everyone has a voice.  Everyone has a message.  Everyone has an opinion.  Everyone… But few have a pulpit…or an audience..or a soapbox…or a blog…or a tribe…or even a listener within an earshot who cares at all about what they have to say. As a pastor, a guest preacher, a volunteer [...]

Christian Cartoon: ALMOST GOOD ENOUGH FOR GOD’S LOVE

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Practically every unsaved person around the world believes that they have to do something in order to make their god pleased with them.  Regardless of what religious persuasion a person is coming from, every religion in the world essentially falls into that bucket. The bucket is called: Human Effort But even if someone comes from the [...]

Christian Cartoon: SELFISH PRAYER

selfish prayer (12_13_11)

One of the things that Christians do very little of is pray correctly.  What I mean by this is that we often pray selfishly rather than praying for things that would honor God, glorify Jesus, and encourage those around us. Too often the focus of our prayers is inward, for and about ourselves, and to [...]

5 Reasons Why Ministry May Be Killing The People At Your Church

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Have you ever thought about why we actually do the things we do, inside the church? No, seriously, why do we do what we do?  Why do we have things like men’s ministries, women’s ministries, children’s ministries, music ministries, conferences, evangelism training courses, prayer meetings, etc., etc., etc., etc.? Could it be that we are [...]