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6 Steps to Upholding Sexual Purity in the Church

Stetzer reminds us that we can demonstrate a more excellent sexuality as a missional embodiment of what Jesus desires for all of humankind.

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7 Steps to Establishing a Grandparenting Ministry in Your Local Church

Larry McCall discusses seven steps to a paradigm shift to establish a grandparenting ministry in your local church.

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Reframe Your Teaching on Pornography

Nick Stumbo shares steps we can take to become places that truly transform the broken sexuality of our congregation and of the world.

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The Pastor’s Essential Library: The Christmas We Didn’t Expect

Be amazed once more by the unexpected details of Jesus’ unique birth and saving work with these short daily devotions and prayers, and renew your worship of our humble, generous and loving Savior.

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Church Growth: It Happened After I Met Arnold Schwarzenegger

Evangelism is another word for compassion. If we don’t love people, we won’t evangelize to save the lost and bring them into the church.

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Thanksgiving: Guilt, Grace, Gratitude

True gratitude before God is centered on the gospel from which all the other benefits flow. God-centered gratitude includes more than the gospel, but the gospel is certainly the beginning. 

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Raising Pastors’ Kids–Together

When church leadership is healthier and more balanced, it will be more healthy for the pastors and particularly their families.

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A Time for Thanksgiving

Direct your heart towards God’s gifts so that thanksgiving may overflow to your visitors as you serve them with a thankful heart.

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6 Ways Pastors Can Shepherd Their Churches to Support Foster or Adoptive Families

There are many ways that the people of God can rally around those who feel a unique call to foster care and adoption.

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The Pastor’s Essential Library: The Death of Porn

The Death of Porn by Ray Ortlund is a series of personal letters written to men assaulted by the porn industry.

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Thankful Pastors Produce Thankful Christians

Our flocks need us to set the example of being filled with thanksgiving. We may do this by cultivating gratitude in our hearts, as we give thanks to God for them.

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7 Habits of Highly Effective Missions Committees

We are dependent upon God to bless our efforts as we pursue the Great Commission.

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Tune My Heart: Cultivating Godly Affections in Worship

Cultivating a heart tuned to worship God rightly requires that we take a fair inventory of our heart’s emotions in our worship.

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The Pastor and His Community

Being known by selecting two or three people who aim to build trust with you through asking specific questions is a way for a community to love their pastor, as well as a way for a pastor to love his community.

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What Makes a Good Pastor? (Foundations of a Faithful Pastor)

As pastors, we must examine our heart’s motivations to examine ourselves and ensure that we are not drifting toward danger.

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How Our Church Encouraged Us to Adopt

Adoption won’t always move in a straight line, but it’s an outreach of immense importance and one that rests at the heart of the Gospel.

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The Pastor’s Essential Library: Putting Your Past in Its Place: Moving Forward in Freedom and Forgiveness

Lives grind to a halt when people don’t know how to relate to their past. Stephen Viars introduces a third way to view one’s personal history—by exploring the role of the past as God intended.

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How Churches Can Help People Find Freedom from Pornography

The church needs to help Christians understand the beauty and power of sex that is so compelling that we would never be satisfied by porn.

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Encouragement for Pastors

The pastorate is no easy job, but those who have faithfully followed the call of God into church ministry can be encouraged in several says.

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Pastors, Take Heart in the Fact that God Sees You

Whatever challenges you are facing, whatever questions you are holding, whatever brutality you are grappling with on this fallen planet at this moment, know that you are seen, known, understood, and deeply beloved by God.