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How to Organize Parties the Jesus Way
I have been meditating on this text for the past month and decided to write an article about it. “When you give a dinner or a banquet, do not invite your friends or your brothers or your relatives or rich neighbors, lest they also invite you in return and you be repaid. But when you…
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What does it mean to be Effective as a Pastor?
Matthew 25:21 His master said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a little; I will set you over much. Enter into the joy of your master.’ How Do I Measure My Effectiveness as a Pastor? When you read church growth books, you often encounter people telling you how…
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Measuring Success as a Pastor
“Every leader, in a sense, has got to establish some metrics of how he or she defines success in whatever his or her particular mission is. So, in some ways, the content of those measures will differ. But transcending that, I think if you look at all of the leadership literature, if you look at…
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Immunity Gap and Building Resilience
Our pediatric doctor mentioned the term immunity gap while we were having our kids checked up by the doctor because of a virus that was going around the metro. The term “immunity gap” has recently gained significant prominence in public health. It refers to the portion of a population that remains susceptible to a contagious…
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Miracles Do Not Mean I Am Okay with the Lord
Miracles do not mean I am okay with the Lord. If there was somebody who experienced the miracle of God time and time again, it’s Pharaoh. He was given a front seat of the mighty hand of God or, as the verse said, “the finger of God.” It made me realize that even if we…