Charles Stone is pastor of West Park Baptist Church in London, Ontario. He’s also author of a new book called People-Pleasing Pastors: Avoiding the Pitfalls of Approval-Motivated Leadership. I plan on reviewing
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A Word for the Discouraged
Discouragement. Fear. Doubt. These three harbingers of anxiety may not have been Paul’s “thorn in the flesh” but for most of us
I spoke to a church planter whose vision was lofty: to transform a city for the glory of God, or something like that. He admitted that the reality was a little humbler. Some
Derek L. Worthington describes the three tenets of post-Christian spirituality in his book The Call of Jesus:
* a distant God — remote, detached, and uninvolved with our lives;
* “me” as a functional god, with
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Five Errors to Drop From Your Easter Sermon
If you want to help people see Holy Week with fresh eyes, start by dropping these familiar fallacies.
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