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Three Tactics for Discipling Your Church on the Issue of Abortion

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Abortion is a reality in our society. How does the church disciple her members to deal with this issue? This article points to three things which can be done to help members deal with this issue: develop a theology of "outcry," recognize fighting abortion as a social justice ministry, and teach members how to talk about it with one another and unbelievers.

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Five Keys to Preaching Gospel-Centred Sermons

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How do you preach gospel-centred sermons? This article explains five keys to this: learn to apply the gospel to yourself, stick with the sins revealed in the passage, be content with the passage's gospel solution, address your spiritual growth, and depend on the Holy Spirit.

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Five Benefits of a Well-Structured Small Group Ministry

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Well-structured small groups Bible studies can be of great benefit to the church. They can be places to train and develop leaders. This article discusses five benefits of a well-structured small group ministry.

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How Basic Economics and Effective Church Leadership Go Together

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Is there a relationship between economics and church leadership? If you see economics as stewardship, then there are some lessons to take from economics. An economically wise church leadership requires that out of all the ministry opportunities before you, allocate your limited resources to the most effective ministry opportunities.

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Top Ten Sermon Introduction Mistakes

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How do you write a sermon introduction that will grab the attention of those listening to your preaching? Knowing how not to do it helps in knowing how to do it. By avoiding these ten mistakes you can work towards writing a sermon introduction that will draw attention.

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Ten Ways to Avoid the Awkward Silence in Your Small Group

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How do you break the ice in a small groups Bible study? This article suggests ten ways you can get the conversation going.

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Twenty-Two Productivity Principles from the Book of Proverbs

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Is there a biblical productivity? The book of Proverbs provides the answer to the question of productivity. This article identifies twenty-two productivity principles from Proverbs.

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Ten Tips for Your Next Hospital Visit

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Do you as a pastor approach hospital visits with a sense of fear and trepidation? These ten tips can help you prepare better for your hospital visitation.

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Five Quick Reasons to Manuscript Your Sermons

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Using a full manuscript can be beneficial for your preaching. This article gives five reasons why.

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Seven Disastrous Results of Letting Your Personal Fulfillment Drive Your Ministry

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Are you using ministry for your personal fulfilment? If so, there are seven disastrous results you can expect.

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Five Ways Pastors Spiritually Benefit from Preaching Expository Sermons

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Expository preaching is of benefit not only for the church, but also the pastor. This article explains five ways in which this is so.

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The Subtle Difference between a Success Mindset and a Fruitfulness Mindset in Ministry

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Is your ministry mindset motivated by success in ministry or fruitfulness in ministry? What is the difference between the two? The answer is found when addressing this question: is it about you or God?

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How to Turn from Your Idols

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Idolatry is a struggle for everyone. How can you turn from idols? Based on Psalm 115 this article gives four ways to turning from idols.

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The Pastor’s Guide to Twitter: Ten Tweets to Impact Your Church

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As a pastor you can use social media to build up your church. This article points to ten ways you can use social media for your church.

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Five Lessons on Planning Funerals You Can’t Learn in Seminary

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Every pastor will participate in a funeral program. How do you plan for funerals? This article shares five lessons on planning funerals.

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Five Common Causes of the Unproductive Productivity System

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Having a productivity system in place does not itself guarantee productivity. This article offers five causes why one's productivity system may not be working.

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Can’t Keep Up? Try this Simpler Approach to Productivity in Ministry

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Perhaps the challenge in your pastoral work is not your workload but the way you do your work. Changing the way you do your work can increase your productivity. This article suggests three ways to bring out change and be a productive pastor.

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Three Ways Pastoral Burnout Can Sneak Up on You

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This article explains that if you are attempting to minister with a celebrity-pastor conscience, or you forget you are finite, or working as if the results were your responsibility, then pastoral burnout is looming.

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Three Common Sermon Illustration Mistakes and the Easy Way to Fix Them

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Sermon illustration can either draw people into the sermon or push them away. This article offers three mistakes that you need to avoid, and how to fix them.

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How to Saturate Your Sermon with Application without Sacrificing Doctrine and Exegesis

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How can you write a sermon full of application without sacrificing doctrine and exegesis? This article argues that by writing your main points in the form of a command, putting them in the present tense, and providing real-life examples of what it looks like to live out the text, you can fill your sermon with application.

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Five Laws for the First Sentence of Your Sermon

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How can a pastor make the first sentence of his sermon be effective? This article offers five things that relate to this question.

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Do You Make These Five Common Word Study Mistakes?

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How do you make a good word study in sermon making? These can help to bring out the message of the text. This article, though, focuses on five common mistakes when pastors do word studies.

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Three Reasons to Say “You” More Often in Your Sermons

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Should a pastor use the second person pronoun in his preaching? This article lists three reasons in support of this.

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The Value of Sermon Introductions: How to Stop Giving Your Congregation Theological Whiplash

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A sermon introduction serves the purpose of leading the congregation into the sermon. How do you write a good sermon introduction? This article suggests there are seven aspects you may want to consider.

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The Five Elements of the Perfect Sermon Illustration

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Illustrations are great tools for preaching. How do you tell a sermon illustration in a good way? This article presents five elements to communicating a good illustration.

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Three Things Photographers Can Teach You about Developing an Eye for Sermon Illustrations

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Illustrations are great tools for preaching. So how does a pastor acquire sermon illustrations? This article suggests three ways of developing an eye for illustrations.

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Pastoral Idolatry: Ten Common Forms of False Righteousness in Ministry

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Idolatry is a struggle for everyone. So in the ministry, there is pastoral idolatry, things that you do to build your righteousness. This article names ten of those ways.

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Seven Things Every Pastor-in-Training Should Know (And Every Pastor-out-of-Training Should Be Reminded Of)

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This article offers seven pieces of advice to one preparing for ministry.

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Seven Ways to Become an Entrepreneurial Pastor (Without Becoming a Risk-Taker or a Businessman)

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Can entrepreneurship be of benefit to pastors? Yes! This article offers seven ways in which pastors can be turned to entrepreneurial pastors.

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What It Means to Be an Entrepreneurial Pastor

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What is an entrepreneurial pastor? This article defines what characterizes an entrepreneur and how this can be of a benefit to the pastor.

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Three Reasons Why You’re Not Getting the Important Stuff Done: A Diagnostic

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Are you struggling as a pastor to get things done? How is your planning? The article offers three possibilities as to why you are not getting things done.

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Three Ways Good Churches Slip into Man-Centred Worship

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It is easy for a worship service to be man-centred worship. One aspect where this happens a lot is through music. How? This article gives three ways in which this can happen through music content, a worship team, and musical performance.

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How to Crank the Impact of Your Sermon Illustrations Up to Eleven

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What is a good way of using sermon illustrations? There are three key factors one must know: what to illustrate, the purpose of it, and the place of it. This article uses these three key factors to show how to use illustrations in preaching.

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Nine Reasons Pastors Fail to Equip the Saints for Minisitry

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Equipping the saints is a phrase every church knows, from Ephesians 4. Yet putting this into practice in the local church is the challenge? This article considers nine reasons why this might not be happening—three relating to pastors, three to church members, and three to both.

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Six Rules for Using Quotes in Sermons

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Should you use quotations in sermons? Quotations in preaching can be a hindrance or a help. How should you use them? This article gives six rules to guide you.

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No Trailing Off! How to Conclude Your Sermons with Power

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What makes for an effective sermon? This article suggests that the sermon's conclusion is important for an effective sermon.

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Keep Your Audience Engaged: What Movies Can Teach Pastors about Effective Transitions

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What makes for an effective sermon? This article considers how to make use of effective transitions in preaching in order to keep your hearers engaged.

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Three Types of Effective Sermon Illustrations and How to Use Them

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Every pastor wants to preach an effective sermon. Yet what makes for an effective sermon? The use of illustrations can be of great help. This article explains three types of sermon illustrations you can use.

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Preach a Sermon Your Audience Can Actually Follow

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Every pastor wants to preach an effective sermon. He wants his preaching to be of help to his people. This article offers a pastor some ways to help people follow his preaching.

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Introductions: Three Things That Will Get Your Sermon off to an Effective Start

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Every pastor wants to preach an effective sermon. He wants his preaching to be of help to his people. What makes for an effective sermon? It is partly what you say in your introduction. This article offers some suggestions on how to draft an effective sermon introduction.

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Are You Overlooking the Most Essential Element of an Effective Sermon?

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Every pastor wants to preach an effective sermon. He wants his preaching to be of help to his people. What makes for an effective sermon?

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Seven Prayer Lists You Already Have

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How do you organize your prayer life as a pastor? This article suggests seven prayer lists you can use for your pastoral prayer.

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5 Ways to Create Interest When You Do Exegesis in Sermons

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If you have a great exegetical insight, just how do you communicate it in preaching without losing your hearers' attention? This article suggests five ways.

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How Not to Deal with Your Frustration in Ministry

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In ministry the question is not how does one avoid frustration, but how do he deal with it. This article considers the matter.

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Use Thematic Outlines to Grasp the Big Picture of a Book of the Bible

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Understanding the message of a Bible book is a great help to preaching from that book. This article encourages the use of thematic outlines for that purpose.

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5 Characteristics of Constantly Improving Preachers

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How can you improve your preaching? It is not by trying tricks, but by being committed to preaching the gospel. Let this article explain from 1 Timothy 4:13-16 how you can make progress.

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Twenty-Four Examples of Gospel-Centered Ministry from 1 Thessalonians

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At the heart of church life is the gospel. How can you build a gospel-centred ministry? 1 Thessalonians offers twenty-four examples, which this article outlines.

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How To Set Up Your Files for Efficient and Effective Sermon Prep

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Did you know that keeping sermon preparation files can help you be organized and be effective in your sermon preparation? This article suggests four sermon preparation files you need, and discusses how you set them up and how to use them.

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Get Rid of Inefficient Sermon Prep with Preaching Templates (Part 2)

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This article shows how you can improve sermon preparation through the use of preaching templates, and gives an example of a sermon application template.

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Get Rid of Inefficient Sermon Prep with Preaching Templates (Part 1)

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This article shows how you can improve sermon preparation through the use of preaching templates.

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5 Nerdy Tools That Will Make You an Organizational Jock

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How can you be an organized pastor? There are tools that can be helpful for the pastor to get organized. This article discusses five.

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Three Signs You’re Not as Organized as You Think

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Are you an organized pastor? The article offers three signs—forgetfulness, inefficiency and distractions—that would reveal you are disorganized.

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How a Robust Theology of Creation Affects Your Productivity

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Do you want to be a productive pastor? What does productivity mean? It means to adopt the pattern modelled by God in creation.

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Pastoral Ministry and Strengths-Based Leadership

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How should pastors deal with their weaknesses in ministry? This article suggests developing one's strengths, and learning to use these strengths in roles where one is weak.

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