Notable Voices and the Week in Review: December 10, 2016
Five Reasons a Christmas Eve Service Reaches the Unchurched
Worship and the Next Generation featuring Mark Hall
Five Keys to Renewing Evangelistic Growth in Your Church
Five Keys to Better Blogging in 2017
Invite Your One featuring Jeremy Roberts
4 Ways to Work for a Boss You Don’t Like — Eric Geiger
Work is so much more fun when you enjoy both what you are doing and whom you are serving alongside. Here are four thoughts I share when people ask me about working for a boss they don’t like:
How to Stop Being a People Pleasing Pastor or Leader — Ron Edmondson
We tend to do what we value most. You must begin to value the vision more than making people happy. Make sure your vision is God-honoring and God-ordained – which I’m confident it is. When you are leading a church, obviously you want to do the will of God. He gives us latitude I believe, but we want to make sure whatever we do honors Him and gives Him glory. Be confident of this.
5 Christian Clichés That Need to Die — Matt Smethurst
A good sentence is a gift. We love finding complex truth shrink-wrapped in clear, simple, memorable form. It’s why Charles Spurgeon, C. S. Lewis, and Tim Keller are dominating a newsfeed near you. Even God likes pithy statements — at least enough to breathe out a whole book of them. But one-liners aren’t always helpful. Sometimes, in our desire to simplify truth, we can trivialize and even obscure it. And to obscure the truth is to tell a lie. Here are five popular Christian clichés that aren’t biblical and therefore need a memorial service.
How Does a Pastor Fight Through the Preaching Hangover? — Brian Croft
You may call it something different, but every pastor knows about it. It is the mental, emotional, and spiritual crash that takes place the next day (Monday) as a result of pouring your heart and soul out in the proclamation of God’s word to God’s people the day before. There is no easy remedy, medication, or quick fix that can prevent it. There are, however, several practical efforts I make every Monday that are tremendously helpful to fight through the fog. Here are 5 suggestions for your consideration:
14 Words of Advice for Guest Preachers — Sam Bierig
My role at Midwestern has allowed me to see many young seminarians receive invitations to preach as pulpit supply for pastors and local congregations in our region. It can be quite a rewarding assignment if handled well, but it can also be nerve-wracking if you don’t follow proper decorum. Through many trials and travails of my own, I have gathered for you 14 tried-and-true rules of thumb to which I try to adhere when I am called upon to be a guest preacher. What an immense stewardship you have been given! Take it seriously young proto-pastor.
5 Tips for Christmas Sermons That Bring Guests Back — Brandon Hilgemann
Are you ready for your Christmas sermon? As you are well aware, Christmas Eve services are one of the highest attendance days of the year for most churches. It’s the big event, the big night. Hundreds—maybe even thousands—of people will trust their valuable time to your church. But the week after, will your guests come back? This could be the only chance you get to make a good impression. The stakes are high. So here are five tips that will help you preach a sermon that brings guests back for more.
