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Screwtape Letters: How to Sabotage a Pastor
Dearest Grubnat, my poppet, my pigsnie, The reports of your progress warm my blackened heart. When you were assigned to one of the Enemy’s ministers ten years ago, his infernal Majesty and I knew you’d have a rough go of it. The zeal of one new to the pastorate can be a daunting challenge to…
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5 Reasons You Can’t Be the Leader You Were 5 Years Ago
Reposting an article by Thom Rainer There are some facets of leadership that are constant. Character and integrity are vital. You must have willing followers. And you must be courageous. Those are some of the key components of effective leadership five years ago. They still are today and will be fifty years from now. But…
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What kind of Men does God use?
Horatius Bonar, writing the preface to John Gillies’ Accounts of Revival regarding the leaders of the First Great Awakening, proposed that men useful to the Holy Spirit for revival stand out in these nine ways: 1. They are in earnest: “They lived and labored and preached like men on whose lips the immortality of thousands hung.” 2. …
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The Gospel and Judas
Judas, one of the 12 apostles chosen by Jesus, a very active and engaging disciple, smart and intelligent (made him on the treasury position), resourceful and ambitious… what went wrong? The love of self. Idolatry of money and the material things of this world lured him to do a very foolish decision. He was always…
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When we fail to plan, we plan to fail…. well not really
They say if we fail to plan, we plan to fail. Well almost a correct statement but missing a very important piece. Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones writes: We are all expert planners, are we not? Those people [the builders of Babel’s Tower] were planners. They drew the specifications of the city. They had it all worked…