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Monday, August 19, 2019

Monday's Catch: What a Famous Poet Can Teach Rural Pastors and More

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What a Famous Poet Can Teach Rural Pastors

Stephen Witmer suggests just three reasons (admitting that there are many more) we should read and re-read the seventeenth century Anglican poet-priest George Herbert's only published prose work, A Priest to the Temple or, The Country Parson: His Character and Rule of Holy Life. Read More
A Priest to the Temple or, The Country Parson: His Character and Rule of Holy Life is available for reading online on the Project Canterbury website. I must admit that I have read this classic work numerous times. For the same work in modern spelling, see the article, A Priest to the Temple or, The Country Parson: His Character and Rule of Holy Life.
Celebrating The Essential Role Of The Historically Small Church

Let’s help today’s small churches be as great as yesterday’s small churches. Read More

The Power of Small Church Outreach

Leverage your advantages to reach your community. Read More

Trends in New Hispanic Church Plants

As with most other church plants, new Hispanic church works see exponential growth during the first few years. Read More

Millennial Men: Dispelling the Myth of the Unreachable Generation

The belief that Millennial men are part of an unreachable generation is a myth. Read More

8 Reasons Why We Preachers and Teachers May Be More Boring Than We Think

I admit that I debated whether to write this post – primarily because I might be unknowingly describing my own teaching and preaching. At the same time, I don’t want to suggest that most preachers and teachers are boring. I don’t believe that’s the case at all. My point here is to challenge all of us—beginning with me—to consider these issues/reasons as we preach and teach. Read More

How to Pray in Spiritual Warfare

This article is part of the How to Pray series. Read More

How The Church Became “Missional”

In the past few columns ... we’ve looked at Mark’s critique of the missional movement and his proposal for a different outlook. Today, I’m putting his critique in wider context, to show how missiology moved from what was essentially a church-centered view to a mission-centered view in the past seventy years or so. Read More

Reviving Evangelism for the Next Generation

A majority of practicing Christians do not consistently support evangelism, and almost half of millennial Christians believe it is flat-out wrong to evangelize. Now what? Read More

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