Here’s a depressing topic all pastors struggle with: churn rate. A church’s churn rate is the percentage of people who leave the church over a given amount of time. If it’s any consolation, Jesus himself had a churn rate. In fact, at one time it was almost 100%. “Yet there […]
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New Commandment Men’s Ministries Blog How Satan Speaks By Herb Reese I’ve been writing about how God speaks. I initially thought I could get everything into one post, but the subject grew to four posts and I still didn’t cover all the ways God speaks to us. We saw […]
We’ve seen in this brief series on how God speaks that God has and is utilizing many different ways to communicate with humanity. These include God speaking in creation, in our personhood, in our conscience and in the Bible. All of this communication, however, is impossible for humanity to understand […]
[I wrote this post just for fun. I hope you enjoy this true story.] Back in the day when people read newspapers, I decided to pick one up at my local King Supers grocery store to read while drinking my morning coffee. As I walked in the parking lot back […]
Yesterday, a pastor on the west coast with a successful, years-long men’s team ministry called me with a question. He said three families in his church had asked if they could serve a widow or single parent as individual families. He asked me if I knew of any churches that […]
In my first two posts on the topic of how God speaks, I covered how God speaks in creation, in our personhood, in our conscience and in the Bible. Today I want to look at the most important way God speaks. God Speaks in His Son, Jesus Christ The Bible […]
This post is the second in a series on “How God Speaks.” In my first post I covered how God speaks in creation and in our personhood. I now discuss two more major ways God speaks. God Speaks in Our Conscience Our conscience is simply the awareness that God is […]
When it comes to the question of the existence of God, one would think that if he does exists, then he would introduce himself to us. Christians assert that God has in fact introduced himself to us, and still is introducing himself. All we have to do is look around […]
The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of people, who suppress the truth by their wickedness, since what may be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them. For since the creation of the world […]