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What do you learn about leadership and cultural change in the examples of Asa and Josiah?
Articles for tag: God’s Word
February 1, 2021
10 Foundation Stones of the Church No. 10: Praise
A few weeks before the pandemic’s arrival in early 2020, my wife and I drove to Grand Island, Nebraska, to speak to a conference of rural churches from across the state. We had the privilege of encouraging 125 leaders. That was a pretty long trip, even in a hybrid vehicle, so we needed to stop every so often to fill up with gas. If we were to run out of gas, it would be pretty silly to get mad at the car. It’s our responsibility to fuel up when needed. In a similar way, we need regular fuel stops to
October 27, 2016
The Pastor”™s Wife: 7 Discoveries She Wishes She Had Understood Sooner
By Michael C. Mack Christine Hoover has been a pastor”™s wife for 14 years and is author of The Church Planting Wife. She says when she and her husband, Kyle, started in ministry, she felt unprepared and afraid. After all, she says, “There is no training ground for ministry life for the pastor”™s wife, there is just the doing it.” If she could go back in time to the beginning of their ministry life together, she says on her blog at www.gracecoversme.com, she”™d tell that young girl these seven things: 1. Humbly yet boldly accept the opportunity to influence others
January 16, 2008
God”s Word, Our Opportunity
By Mark A. Taylor Several years ago, I spoke with a friend who was pursuing a graduate degree in a city about two hours from home. During this time he regularly stayed overnight there with a minister whose name every Christian church leader knows. More than once he commented on a ritual this minister and his teenage son shared. Each evening the two gathered at the kitchen table, ate from a plate of cookies, and read out loud a chapter from the Bible. This was their practice every weeknight, and we”re struck with its simplicity. Any family could do something
