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- 1. Remember This Powerful Promise From Scripture When You Feel Inadequate
- "I am with you to deliver you!" are perhaps seven of the most significant words in all of Scripture (Jer. 1:8b). This septuplet of common words is found in a conversation that the Lord was having with ...
- Created on 03 June 2021
- 2. 6 Tough Prayers to Pray for Non-Believing Loved Ones
- I, like many of my readers, have a number of non-believing family members and friends. I pray at least weekly for all of them and daily for several of them—but knowing how to pray isn't always easy. Here ...
- Created on 29 January 2021
- 3. Is It Possible to Manipulate People Into the Kingdom?
- From where I sat as pastor, the deacon appeared to be brow-beating people into praying the sinner's prayer with him, then accompanying him to church the following Sunday to make public this "commitment" ...
- Created on 19 January 2021
- 4. Why This is No Time to Preach in Neutral
- In Dare to Lead, her wonderful book about vulnerability as the key to influential leadership, Brené Brown proclaims a simple and powerful truth, "Clarity is kind." And on the other side of the same coin, ...
- Created on 13 January 2021
- 5. 8 Questions to Evaluate Your Church's Evangelism
- I'm thinking about my own church today. I want us to be much more evangelistically oriented, so I'm asking these same questions I list for you today as I evaluate my church: 1. Am I personally evangelistic? ...
- Created on 05 January 2021
- 6. What Pastors Could Learn From Football Coaches
- Jim Mora was the popular coach of the New Orleans Saints NFL team from 1986 to 1996. On one occasion, as he and I shared an elevator, I introduced myself. I said, "Preachers can appreciate what coaches ...
- Created on 20 November 2020
- 7. How Your Courage as a Leader Can Draw Unbelievers to God
- You can't be effective in ministry (or in any other area of your life) if you don't work well with other people. Otherwise, you'll spend much of your ministry unhappy. "Cultivating a life in common" ...
- Created on 26 October 2020
- 8. Spirit-Filled Pastor: Are You Too Serious for God?
- One morning, as I stood in the kitchen preparing my favorite drink, iced tea, my lovely wife, Marsha, walked in and saw the seriousness across my face. She gently asked, "What's wrong?" My typical male ...
- Created on 14 September 2020
- 9. Spirit-Filled Evangelist: Don't Get Distracted by Darkness, Decay and Death
- I have heard these words in my spirit: "Don't get distracted." Could the distraction be, returning to the old routines that were non-productive in reaching the lost? It is said that, "Crisis gives birth ...
- Created on 11 May 2020
- 10. The 2 Roles You Must Embrace to Fulfill the Great Commission
- What does it look like to save the lost? Is it evangelism, bringing the life of our risen Savior to those still dead in their sins? Or is it discipleship, teaching rescued souls how to live abundant lives, ...
- Created on 28 January 2020
- 11. 5 Questions Every Preacher Should Stop and Ask
- It's good to stop and look around sometimes and ask ourselves some questions. We can think of a hundred such questions to ask ourselves: Where are you going? How did you get here? Are you doing what the ...
- Created on 14 January 2020
- 12. Preach a Powerful Altar Call With These 8 Simple Steps
- ... seeing growth by salvations? If so, one of the most important skills you must master as a pastor is how to give a clear, compelling invitation to receive Christ. We have seen over 19,000 people come t ...
- Created on 17 October 2019
- 13. The Key That Can Unlock the Salvations, Signs and Miracles We Desire ...
- There is a hunger intensifying in our country for revival, for a mighty move of God. But it will not fall until we lay hold of the key that can unlock the salvations, signs and miracles we desire. Jesus ...
- Created on 03 September 2019
- 14. 3 Steps to Help Your Congregation Develop a Heart for the Lost
- Pastor, the truth about you is: You are one of the most important people in your community—maybe the most important person. You are God's messenger and direction-setter for the people of your church. And ...
- Created on 10 July 2019
- 15. Why Every Parent of a Prodigal Should Take These 4 Steps
- I have realized over the course of the last year that there is an entire subgroup of Christians who desire to bring no attention to themselves or to their terrible cause. This anonymous company of wounded ...
- Created on 06 June 2019
- 16. How to Move New Converts Closer to Jesus
- One of the most exciting moments within the life of a church is when someone comes to know Jesus Christ as Savior. We celebrate having new believers in our churches, but are we leading them to become lifelong ...
- Created on 29 August 2018
- 17. RT Kendall: How to Know You Are Truly Saved
- Some teach that you cannot claim to be a Christian until you prove it by your perseverance. If you turn out well, good; this shows you were truly born again. But if you don't turn out well, this shows ...
- Created on 19 February 2018
- 18. Find Your Africa
- There's something powerful and memorable about the moment when someone asks Jesus to become their Savior. The born-again experience includes a complete change in our spiritual DNA. I don't have to understand ...
- Created on 14 December 2016
- 19. 5 Excuses That Could Be Blocking Salvations in Your Church ...
- For a long time I've wondered if there is a relationship between the number of salvations a church experiences and the number of times it offers salvation invitations. We'll never know for sure, but I'm conduct ...
- Created on 12 September 2016
- 20. 3 Things You Must Do Before Leading Others to God
- My whole life I've been impatient. in the past, I have often looked for ways to find a golden shortcut to the perfect product—but not at such high a price. We all know such golden products simply don't ...
- Created on 24 August 2016
