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Part 3: Significance By: Dan Reiland In the past two entries, we have talked about how to navigate periods of survival or success in our ministries. But many of us still long for something deeper (or at least we should). In this final installment of an excellent article by Pastor Dan Reiland, we hear from... Continue Reading →
Part 2: Success By: Dan Reiland We all long to bear fruit in our ministry. However, in our previous entry, we shared Pastor Dan Reiland’s thoughts on a stage of ministry he deems surviving. Is there a way to more consistently experience significant ministry impact? Today we continue the series from Dan Reiland’s article as we... Continue Reading →
Part 1: Survival By: Dan Reiland We all want to experience significance in ministry. We hope for success, and yet sometimes find ourselves merely surviving. Is there a way to more consistently experience significant ministry impact? Is it always through success? How can you break out of survival mode? This article may be for you or someone... Continue Reading →
Recently, I have been thinking about the effect “attitude” plays in a missionary’s life. We send missionaries out to challenging places, and I believe a massive part of their success can be attributed to the way they view God, each other, and their circumstances (in other words: attitude). Some seem to be discouraged about everything. ... Continue Reading →
By Dr. Stan Toler (1950-2017) If you had a super power, what would you want it to be? I love to ask people that question. The responses are always interesting. Flying tops the list. Others will say teleportation, invisibility, or x-ray vision. It’s fun to speculate about the good we might do if we had... Continue Reading →
Freya Galindo Guevara Over the course of our lives, we have all had to go through various situations that have left us feeling discouraged or defeated. They made us feel beaten down, afflicted or worried. Maybe we felt weakened, powerless, or like we had lost all our energy. Many times instead of drawing close to... Continue Reading →
By Scott Armstrong I’ve been thinking about the parable of the talents recently. And it’s making me uneasy. You know the story, right? Matthew 25 tells us that a man gives one servant five talents, another servant two, and a final servant one. After a long time away, the master comes back to find that... Continue Reading →
“When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the Lord appeared to him and said, ‘I am God Almighty; walk before me faithfully and be blameless. Then I will make my covenant between me and you and will greatly increase your numbers.’” (Genesis 17:1-2) By Emily Armstrong God is renewing his covenant with Abraham that the promise... Continue Reading →
By Scott Armstrong “So do not be ashamed to testify about our Lord.” There it is, in black and white in verse 8 of the first chapter of 2 Timothy. No getting away from it; testifying about what Jesus is doing in our lives is the expectation. It’s what Christian’s do. So, why is doing it... Continue Reading →
“So he came to a town in Samaria called Sychar, near the plot of ground Jacob had given to his son Joseph. Jacob’s well was there, and Jesus, tired as he was from the journey, sat down by the well. It was about noon. When a Samaritan woman came to draw water, Jesus said to... Continue Reading →
