Children, Churches, and Sex Abuse
A new national survey by Your Church magazine and NationalChristianPoll.com shows a surprising number of churches don’t provide a child sexual abuse prevention training program for staff or volunteers who are involved in church activities and programs of the 704 church leaders who responded: 41% say no child sexual abuse prevention training program exists at
Social Justice Handbook
Small Steps for a Better World – Mae Elise Cannon. IVP Books. A resource organized by topic and type of work to guide you in coupling the gospel with social justice work. A great tool! 2ProphetU2ProphetU is an online magazine/website, started by Warren Wiersbe and Michael Catt, to build up the church, seek revival, and
Global Mission Handbook
A Guide for Crosscultural Service – Steve Hoke and Bill Taylor. IVP Books. This book provides resources for personal spiritual preparation as well as cross-cultural skills and hands-on missionary training. Includes profiles and stories of people entering cross-cultural missions, introduces the latest issues in global missions, from business as mission to sex trafficking. 2ProphetU2ProphetU is
The Sufficiency of Daily Grace
Written by: Bill Elliff “Therefore do not be anxious for tomorrow, for tomorrow will care for itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.” (Matthew 6:34) Most of my trouble is tomorrow. I don’t have enough money tomorrow. I have to have a tough conversation tomorrow. I’ve got too much to do tomorrow. I
Serving and Loving
by Michael Catt 1 Thessalonians 1:3 I. What Is Love According to God’s Word? Four basic words for love in the Greek:1) Eros2) Storge3) Philia4) Agape II. The Evidence of Love in Paul, the Thessalonians and, Prayerfully, in Us A) God’s kind of love is tenacious. (Matthew 5; Galatians 6; 1 Peter 1:22; 1 Thessalonians
"Human nature being what it is, the man of God may soon adopt an air of constant piety and try to appear what the public thinks he is. The fixed smile and hollow tones of the professional cleric are too well known to require further mention.
All this show of godliness, by the squeeze of circumstances and through no fault of the man himself, may become a front behind which the man hides, a plaintive, secretly discouraged and lonely soul. Here is no hypocrisy, no intentional double living, no actual desire to deceive. The man has been mastered by the circumstances. He has been made the keeper of other people's vineyards but his own vineyard has not been kept. So many demands have been made upon him that they have long ago exhausted his supply. He has been compelled to minister to others while he himself is in desperate need of a physician."- A. W. Tozer
Pastoral Ministry
"There is no magic in small plans. In ministry I think of the world. Anything less would not be worthy of Christ." - Henretta Meirs
Ministry
Hard-Times Seekers
The 6 Kinds of Hard-Times Seekers The Broken seek HEALINGThe Lost seek GUIDANCEThe Lonely seek INTIMACYThe Anxious seek ASSURANCEThe Victimized seek JUSTICEThe Trapped seek TRANSFORMATION by Tom Bandy 2ProphetU2ProphetU is an online magazine/website, started by Warren Wiersbe and Michael Catt, to build up the church, seek revival, and encourage pastors.
Eternal Life
Non-Christian religions can lead to eternal life, said: 47% of white evangelicals49% of black protestants82% of white mainliners84% of white Catholics 2008 Pew Forum poll of US adults 2ProphetU2ProphetU is an online magazine/website, started by Warren Wiersbe and Michael Catt, to build up the church, seek revival, and encourage pastors.
The Gospel-Driven Life
Being Good News People in a Bad News World – Michael Horton. Baker Books. “The follow-up to Horton’s recent Christless Christianity, The Gospel-Driven Life is written for those Christians who are burned out on hype and looking for hope. Too many Christians are in bondage to duty and despair. A recovery of the gospel is
Evaluating True Preaching
Written by: Bill Elliff John 7:14-18 Every communicator of God’s Word who desires to grow must evaluate Himself by Christ’s earthly teaching. Living as a man, He was the perfect illustration of anointed preaching. If a man is merely interested in self glory, he will never evaluate by such a standard. But every sincere preacher
Memorize Now
This website allows you to paste in a passage and use tools that aid memorization. www.memorizenow.com 2ProphetU2ProphetU is an online magazine/website, started by Warren Wiersbe and Michael Catt, to build up the church, seek revival, and encourage pastors.