Experts in volunteer recruitment say that you should get to know your segments, target interactive communications to move volunteers from one level of engagement to the next and speak directly to the wants of each segment in order to convert shoppers to committed leaders. One key strategy missing is prayer, especially for kingdom ministry. Psalm…
The current financial crisis is considered by many economists to be the worst since the Great Depression of the of the 1930s. It resulted in the collapse of large financial institutions, the bailout of banks by national governments, and downturns in stock markets around the world. In many areas, the housing market had also suffered, resulting in numerous evictions, foreclosures and prolonged…
If we don’t eat, we become malnourished. The same applies to spiritual food or feeding on the bread of life, God’s word. From a survey of 1050 Reformed and Evangelical pastors in 2005-06, 81% said there was no regular discipleship program or effective effort of mentoring their people or teaching them to deepen their Christian…
Robert Webber, in his book, The Younger Evangelicals wrote, “The calling of the church in every culture is to be mission. That is, the work of the church is not to be an agent or servant of the culture. The churches’ business is not to maintain freedom or to promote wealth or to help a…
The earth is intimately tied to the sun, around which it revolves. Without the sun, life on earth could not exist because of the need for light, energy and holding it in place so it won’t spin off into outer space. Because the moon is big, its gravity tugs on the earth under the location…
Personal identity in answering the question, “who am I?” is what makes you unique or different from others. It is the way you see or define yourself, including the network of values and convictions that structure your life. A proper personal identity is dependent on knowing God’s benefits and great love for you. Personal identity…
“O Be Careful Little Eyes What You See” is the first line from a children’s Sunday School song. The song warns children to be careful what they see, hear, say, and do. We are affected by everything around us such as foods we eat and drink, medicines we take, books and newspapers we read, television…
Many of us think God is reluctant to answer prayer. We pray and God appears to ignore us. For many years, my wife and I asked God for a baby. We spent time and money looking at fertility issues. In God’s time, Karen conceived and Steve was born. Is there a basis for believing that…
Coming into God’s presence with thanksgiving empowers you to speak of God’s reign so you remember His righteous judgment and experience His power to defeat spiritual enemies. Otherwise, a hardened heart prevents entering into God’s rest that leads to forgetting His righteous judgment and power to overcome the world, flesh and devil. Enter Into…
You discovered the key to happiness as moment-by-moment trust, security, protection and satisfaction in God (Ps. 91). Martin Seligman, one of the founders of positive psychology, has written in his new book, Flourish, that the goal of well-being has five elements: Positive emotion (of which happiness and life satisfaction are all aspects) Engagement Relationships Meaning…
People keep searching for the key to happiness. People fill their lives with so many things: working on a computer, talking on their cell phones, listening to the radio, watching the television, combing our hair, etc. The more multi-tasking one can do the better, we often reason. God has another plan. He wants us to…
Many people waste their life on earth. They don’t make the most of their time. John Piper wrote, “Fight for us, O God, that we not drift numb and blind and foolish into vain and empty excitements. Life is too short, too precious, too painful to waste on worldly bubbles that burst. Heaven is too…