Elements of Effective Sermon Delivery
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“… a quick, helpful guide to some of the practical aspects of effective sermon delivery. I thought some of you might benefit from it as well.”
Church of England considers abandoning requirement for Sunday services
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“Earlier this year, the Archbishop of Canterbury warned that the Church of England was battling to maintain its place in an increasingly ‘anti-Christian’ culture as attendances at services fell to their lowest ever levels.” LTelegraph
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Evangelism that works
Many Christians are looking for a style of evangelism that works, which is to say one that produces visible, measurable results. Surely every Christian desires to see people turned from darkness to light, but most have learned that reported results and genuine conversions are not necessarily the same thing. Let’s take a look at one of the Apostle Paul’s evangelistic efforts recorded in the opening verses of Acts chapter seventeen. Here we find a biblical example of evangelism that works.
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Over 1,800 United Methodists Launch Wesleyan Covenant Association to Promote Conservative Orthodoxy in Church
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“The Wesleyan Covenant Association, a newly formed evangelical group of clergy and laity seeking to have the United Methodist Church go in a theologically conservative direction, held its inaugural one-day conference in Chicago, Illinois, on Friday.
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The Evangelical Collapse Prophesied
My attention was just brought to this article that is now seven years old.
http://www.csmonitor.com/Commentary/Opinion/2009/0310/p09s01-coop.html
I realize that the author uses the term evangelical in a broad sense but it is thought provoking when you look at our history over the last few decades.
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Dr. Rod Bell Passed Away
Dr. Rod Bell Sr. who started Tabernacle Baptist Church in Virginia and Mt. Calvary Baptist Church in Greenville, SC passed away Sunday October 2nd in Georgia where his son pastors. He was 82. His funeral service is on Sermon Audio.com.
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InterVarsity Denies It Will Fire Employees Who Support Gay Marriage
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“ ‘That is not the case. In fact, InterVarsity doesn’t have a policy regarding employee views on civil marriage,’ stated InterVarsity on Thursday evening. ‘We do continue to hold to an orthodox view of human sexuality and Christian marriage, as you can read in our Theology of Human Sexuality Document.’”
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How to Insult Your Pastor Creatively
I have concluded that most church people are positive, encouraging, and supportive. Nonetheless, it generally takes at least ten encouraging things to offset one discouraging thing (this varies a lot with intensity).
The greatest discouragement most pastors face is from within the Kingdom. Jesus warned his disciples that they would have to bear insult because they belong to him (Matthew 5:11). What Jesus did not warn his disciples about is that Christians would insult fellow Christians, and particularly that Christians would insult or demoralize their leaders. I call these offenders the “ungracious ten per cent.”
Most insults are passive-aggressive—insinuation and inference. Here are some common insults—coupled with my subjective rating scale rating intent to insult.
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