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The Definition of Ministry

Ministry is giving when you feel like keeping, praying for others when you need to be prayed for, feeding others when your own soul is hungry, living ...


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Spurgeon's Knocking Knees

Often, in coming down to this pulpit, have I felt my knees knock together.


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Safe but Sterile

Christian literature, to be accepted and approved by evangelical leaders of our times, must follow very closely the same train of thought, a kind of "party ...


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Pastoral Purity

The pastor should always be pure in thought, inasmuch as no impurity ought to pollute him who has undertaken the office of wiping away the stains of pollution ...


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Desired Attendance

During one service I was complaining to the Lord about the lack of attendance: "Lord, attendance is just not what I'd like it to be." This ...


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Vote Early, Vote Often

"Tell me how we get 100 votes to keep an evening service when only 15 show up."


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Imperfect Attendance

"We have a special gift for a lady that hasn't missed a service in forty-five years. Eleanor Smith! Where is Eleanor sitting? Eleanor? Eleanor ...


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Quelling a Rebellion

Annie Dillard, who won a Pulitzer Prize in literature at age 30, has written explicitly about her Christian faith. As a teen, however, she once decided ...


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Sleepwalking to Worship

I believe a very large majority of churchgoers are merely unthinking, slumbering worshipers of an unknown God.


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Too Busy to Pray?

If you have so much business to attend to that you have no time to pray, depend upon it, you have more business on hand than God ever intended you should ...


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