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Team Ministry
[1] EVERY MEMBER NEEDED “As it is, there are many parts, but one body. The eye cannot say to the hand, “I don’t need you!” And the head cannot say to the feet, “I don’t need you!” On the contrary, those parts of the body that seem to be weaker are indispensable … But God […]
Cure For Tiredness
RE: Look Out the Other Window – Monday Morning Memo 11-6-00 Look Out the Other Window A Monday Morning Memo for the Friends of the Wizard of Ads When Pennie was a little girl, she worried about growing old with a husband. It’s not that she feared losing her youth or beauty, her gnawing concern […]
Mama Gates
Mama Gates (Bill Gates) In the early days of Microsoft, Bill Gates was so focused on his work that instead of hiring a secretary, he practically hired a mother. Her name was Miriam Lubow. “Miriam adopted a motherly solicitousness toward her abstracted young boss, setting up barbering appointments, make sure his hair was combed, straightening […]
Writers: Have A Life Purpose
Have a life purpose, author tells writers By Jim L. Wilson (Oct. 2000) GLORIETA, N.M. (BP)–Christians who are not walking in God’s purpose for their lives are merely surviving, an author told participants in the fourth annual Glorieta Christian Writers’ Conference, Oct. 17-21 at Glorieta, a LifeWay Conference Center, in New Mexico. Jan Johnson, a […]
Mustard Seed Versus Mcworld (Tom Sine)
Clergy/Leaders’ Mail-list No. 0-027 (Book Review) MUSTARD SEED VERSUS McWORLD: Reinventing Life and Faith for the Future by Tom Sine. (Baker Books, Grand Rapids, MI. 1999), 249. ISBN 0-8010-9088-1 Reviewed by David W. Virtue FOR more than 30 years Tom Sine has kept alive the biblical truth that the Kingdom of God, contained in a […]
Full Of Hypocrites
Clergy/Leaders’ Mail-list No. 0-201 (General) SO YOU THINK THE CHURCH IS FULL OF HYPOCRITES by Norman Bales “I’m not going to have anything to do with the church because it’s full of hypocrites.” I suppose most of the people who use that line think they invented it. It’s a handy phrase that gets a person […]
When Is It Time To Move On?
Dear Fellow-Yoked, Pastoral tenure and the discernment of God’s timing for each of our ministries is one of the most difficult facets of ministry. Should I stay? Or should I leave? Today’s article, by Rev. John Simpson, General Superintendent of the Baptist Union of Victoria (Australie), has some good, common-sense insight from “down under.” Enjoy […]
Biblical Worship And Ours
Clergy/Leaders’ Mail-list No. 0-206 From ‘Sunrise Sunset’ (HarperCollins/Harper San Francisco), Rowland Croucher’s book of daily meditations. Feel free to use or adapt it. Praise the Lord! With trumpet sound… lute and harp… tambourine and dance… strings and pipe… clanging cymbals, clashing cymbals! Let everything that breathes praise the Lord! Psalm 150. Biblical worship was sometimes […]
The Ministry: “Almost Inevitable Ruin”
*THE MINISTRY: “ALMOST INEVITABLE RUIN” By Tammi Reed Ledbetter LIBERTY, Mo. (BP)–“Regardless of your age or education or experience, it is almost inevitable that you will become the kind of minister you do not want to be,” warned Don Whitney, associate professor of spiritual formation, in his commencement address May 20 to Midwestern Baptist Theological […]
All Are Ordained To Ministry
Al Fogelman wrote in message . > > An excellent response. One needs to find our God, themselves. Not thru > other people, ministers, pastors, priests and such. For they are ony > witness to their own beliefs, Not necessarly true for you, me. with > love, al. > > On Sun, 29 Oct 2000 […]
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