December 31, 2024
Healthy Churches Produce Healthy Leaders
leaders can evaluate four vital signs that speak to the health of the local church: Students, Statements, Struggles, and Statistics.
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March 4, 2024
March 10 Application | ‘Lowercase Leaders’
Uppercase leaders demand attention; lowercase leaders quietly do God’s work. . . .
January 29, 2019
Q. Should Women Be Involved in Church Leadership and Preaching Roles? (A. YES)
By Lorelei Pinney Nij It is incredible the modern church remains mired in the centuries-old debate of the role of women in ministry. In the late 1970s, when I was a senior at Dallas Christian College, one of my professors challenged me to examine this topic using only Scripture as my prooftext. It was enlightening and empowering to discover the principle limitations on women were not divinely inspired but were placed on them by men. Jesus’ View of Women I explored this question first: “How did Jesus treat women and what did he teach about women?” It is
August 16, 2010
Lesson for Aug. 22, 2010: Growing in Joy and Peace (Philippians 4:1-14)
This week”s treatment of the International Sunday School Lesson (for August 22) is written by Thomas May who serves as discipleship minister with Eastside Christian Church, Jeffersonville, Indiana. Growing in Joy and Peace (Philippians 4:1-14) By Thomas May I recently moved into an office in a just-completed wing of the church building. If you visit, you will find two walls lined with scads of books collected over years of ministry and education. My desk is situated in the midst of the shelves so that when I prepare lessons and sermons, many of the books literally are at my fingertips. But in the
