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Pastoring

What does it mean to love your wife like Christ loves the church?

Posted Nov 12 2009

At our last men’s prayer breakfast at our church, I shared the following devotion. I share it with you in hopes that all husbands everywhere might be stirred up to, or renewed in, their determination to love their wives with Christ-reflecting purity and power:

“Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and […]

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Pastor Appreciation Month

Posted Oct 02 2009

Encourage your pastor with these helpful resources…

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New sermon series: Preaching for Pastors

Posted Oct 28 2008

Faithful preachers are among God’s best gifts…

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Expository? Preaching?

Posted Oct 21 2008

Wayne Mack gives this sage-but-simple counsel to preachers:
I think there are two really, really basic mistakes you don’t want to make if you are an expository preacher. Yet the crazy thing is, I’m convinced these are two of the most common mistakes preachers make.
The first mistake is not to carefully exposit the passage you […]

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A readiness to present the message that is needed

Posted Jul 07 2008

Yesterday I finished reading Jay Adams’ little, but very helpful, book Truth Applied. In his typically good-humored and accessible — but practical and powerful — style, Adams lays out in the opening pages the importance of “applying” truth:
When you “apply” pressure to a wound, you make forceful contact with it in order to stop the […]

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