New Year’s Sketches and Other Liturgy Ideas

The year 2010 is nearly here and although you may be enjoying Advent/Christmas all the parties and festivities if you are a pastor your mind is somewhat down the road and into the new year.  No doubt you are considering in prayer or in action the themes, missional purposes, and sermon ideas of the new [...]

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Your Pastor’s a What????

OK so I attend this church where our lead pastor is a…lawyer.  Yep, that’s right a lawyer.  Interesting thought I know, but true nevertheless.  Pastor Bob is indeed a lawyer.  He teaches law in a local college and has also done corporate law for engineering companies and so on.  So here we have this bivocational [...]

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Just a little SALT will do

Just a quick idea for you if you are looking for effective long term disciplship options for your church or small group.  I got connected with a group last year called Victorious Living International.  These folks are so awesome and produce materials called SALT.  SALT stands for Seven Areas of Life Training.  This material covers [...]

Filed under: Discipleship, New Churches, Pastors, Spiritual Formation