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Started reading book 2 weeks ago. Anyone want to give me their feedback?
Read more…Started reading book 2 weeks ago. Anyone want to give me their feedback?
Read more…I've read the book Every Man's Battle By Stephen Arterburn, Fred Stoeker, Mike Yorkey. I've found a lot of really helpful tips and advice in it, but yet I feel like the book focuses a little too much on my effort and "purity techniques" and not enoug
Read more…I don't know about you but while I was being discipled, I never heard anything about my mentors going through a crisis of faith. Sometimes I think that believers go through crises of faith and perhaps fall away because they don't know how to get thr
Read more…Just finished Piper's new book, THINK. It is a wonderful call for us - individually and collectively as the Church - to think, to read, to reason, to meditate on our faith and on the glories of our God and our Savior Jesus the Christ. I found myself
Read more…Through the years, I have found and continue to find solace in coming to know and knowing my Creator in His letter(s) to me, to you, to us.
I have been of the mind, this part of my relationship with Him has been and was His purpose to capture me. I
What do you think?...What makes one believer an Intercessor while some seem to have no interest in intercession? Is it a gift? A calling? A mark of spiritual maturity or obedience? How does a person move from self-centered prayer to being burdene
Read more…c. 1984/2004 (20th Anniversary Edition with Leader's Guide, Baker Books.
Bill Hull writes with years of experience under his belt. He has lived out his mission to return the church to its discipleship roots as a pastor and as a leader of an independe
What comes to mind when you think of the term, "Evangelism?"
I think my first exposure to Evangelism was at a "tent meeting" where a preacher was preaching a "hell-fire and brimstone" message in which people were being converted through fear.
Lat
Read more…One of the best resources that I've seen on Resolving Conflict is a book by Ken Sande, "The Peace Maker: A Biblical Guide to Resolving Personal Conflict" Baker Books (2004).
In his book, Ken elaborates on how the following principles can lead to
Read more…My husband is a Youth Pastor and one of the mission trips that we have done is through the SanFrancisco YWAM base.
We were sent into the Tenderloin District and the Haight/Ashberry area to minister to homeless, drug addicted, prostitutes, etc. For
Read more…I'd like to hear more from others about how they moved through feelings of indequacy related to mentoring. I'm not sure that feelings of inadequacy are always a negative thing because they cause me to depend more fully on the help of the Holy Spirit
Read more…I'm so thankful for the memorization that I did when I was younger. Though my desire to memorize Scripture today is still strong, my memory is not. My short-term memory is horrible. Does anyone have any strategies for Scripture Memory with those
Read more…I have an appreciate for differences in worship styles and I've always been bothered by the "Worship Wars" that too often occur in the Church. I think of the early church and of persecuted churches and realize that they probably weren't standing aro
Read more…I don't know if this is true for others but I find that one of the barriers to me enjoying my relationship with God is that I have a tendency to project onto God characteristics or traits that really don't represent who He is but rather, they represe
Read more…Forgiveness is Not saying in any way that a wrong is right. Forgiveness does Not take away the consequences of the wrong either with the victim or the doer of the wrong. Forgiveness does Not solve all the relationship problems caused by the wrong. Fo
Read more…I grew up in Mali West Africa where my parents were missionaries. At age six I went about 700 miles away to boarding school in Mamou Guinea. This was a boarding school for missionary kids. About seventy five percent of the children who attended there
Read more…Talking with Reuben Deil the other day and he asked if the 247 Network had a forum. I told him that there was a blog on the website but no "forum". So I am trying this out to see if the word is disseminated adequately . . .
Read more…Has anyone else experienced periods of time where it seems like God sidelined you for a while to work on some things in your own life. And then when you felt called to get back in the game, you felt a sense of inadequacy or it seemed that there wer
Read more…So how does one overcome embedded sin? Each person must answer the question for themselves. But, is there help. And What does help mean? I ask the question who will start the answer?
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