In his book, God’s Psychiatry, Charles L. Allen tells about a businessman who came to him for advice.
The businessman was talented, successful, and had risen to be chosen as president of his company. “Yet, along the way,” Allen wrote, “he had left out something, and one of the things he did not achieve is happiness.” Allen observed that he was a nervous, tense, worried, and a sick man. Continue reading
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Last Fall at the annual Sing! Conference in Nashville, Tennessee, author and minister Alistair Begg sounded a warning against the “consumer worship” mindset in many churches.
Begg challenged attendees, including preachers, pastors, and church leaders to return to a “serious engagement with the Bible.” Continue reading
WordPress, the platform we use for ThePreachersWord, has a daily writing prompt on its dashboard for bloggers.
Recently this probing and penetrating question caught my eye. “Tell us one thing you hope people say about you?” Continue reading
Filed under Discipleship
My facebook friend and gospel preacher, Jeff Carr, shared a post from Brad Harrub that resonated with me. And I’m sure it will with almost every preacher and elder.
“How can we make our local congregations stronger? Asked Brad. The answer is found in his well worded post “Stop the Anonymous Complaints.” Continue reading
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Exercise three times a week.
Eat healthier.
Pray daily.
Read the entire Bible this year.
Lose weight.
Text less.
Listen more.
Get organized.
Stop procrastinating.
Live within or below my income.
Become debt-free.
Max-out my Roth-IRA.
Learn a new skill.
Spend more time with friends and family. Continue reading
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Greetings!
Welcome to 2025
We wish for all you a happy, healthy and prosperous New Year.
Our prayer and wish for all of our readers can be summed up in these two verses. One from the Old Testament and the other from the New Testament. Continue reading
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