Our next team arrives this week This week our latest layperson team arrives in Romania. They will be joining our Associate Pastor, Eric Paashaus, his wife Magda and their three children…
Category: Church Leadership
Encouragement for leaders
Best pro-life article I have read in some time
People who are pro-life are always asked by pro-choice people, “What about cases of rape and incest?” Here is a compelling, factual, insightful and thoroughly convincing pro-life answer. I highly recommend it….
Book recommendations for marriages in troubled times
Last Sunday I finished the series of sermons called Kitchen Table Talks on Relationships. As I was studying for the series and reviewing various sourcebooks, I was thinking about which ones to…
Next Sermon Series to Focus in the Gospels
It is always refreshing to turn again to the Bible stories of Jesus’ life and ministry. As I was praying about what messages to preach for the next five weeks until Pastor…
Book recommendations concerning personality differences
Each week of ours sermon series called Kitchen Table Talks on Relationships I have been making recommendations on my blog for further reading on the topic of this week’s sermon. Here are…
Why pastors should blog
http://www.heathmullikin.com/4-reasons-every-pastor-should-blog/ I recently read the above blog article by Heath Mullikin about why pastors should be bloggers. I totally agree with him. I like his reasons but I think I would…
Recommended encouragement for couples by a fellow pastor
I’ve heard Mark O. Wilson speak. It’s a great pastor in a medium sized town in northern Wisconsin and he has many very practical ideas. This article is in Wesleyan Life online. …
July sermons will be about relationships
Marriage has so much potential yet most marriages also experience a good deal of pain on the way to forging a better way. What are some typical causes of this pain? What…
Guiding congregational prayer
Over the last several weeks, there has been more than one occasion for our church to join in united prayer as a congregation in various different ways. Some of them have been…
June messages planned
At Community Wesleyan Church we have a simple six word motto and mission statement: Love God, Love others, Make disciples. Each of the three elements is taken directly from Jesus’ instructions to…