Offer unbiased coaching to those who seek career advice. First, listen to them. Answers to most career questions come by talking over possibilities with a sympathetic listener. Let the Holy Spirit guide your conversation. Even if they cannot make a crucial decision, do not try to decide for them; let them do research and consult experienced workers. Avoid giving them counsel as one who merely recruits for an organization. New workers and those making career changes often need guidance … [Read more...]

  Six questions about missionary teams often arise. 1. Why form church planting teams? Jesus and His apostles always worked in groups except when in jail. To work alone invites burnout, discouragement, harmful decisions and moral failures. Younger Americans, like most non-Westerners, prefer to work in a closely-knit community. Include nationals on your team in foreign fields. Form several task groups, so that expatriates do not outnumber nationals. Let nationals lead teams as soon as … [Read more...]

  1. Look first to Jesus When you have to make important decisions, first review the commands of Jesus and His Apostles. The Holy Spirit will give you the power to obey them. Christ’s will for believers is, before all else, simply to do what He already plainly told them to do. In daily matters, if believers truly love God and others, they can do just about whatever they desire, because their desires will be pure. They will only want to do good, wise and just things, because their love comes … [Read more...]

 Job 1: 6 through 3: 4; 40: 1-8 & 42: 5-8 POY! SKIT GUIDELINES: In a small group, participants might simply read their lines, or glance at their lines to get the idea so they can speak in their own words. Most POY! skits require no practice in advance. Have any small children play a brief part. Most scripts have an optional part for children, listed last under Participants. Most scripts have a Narrator who should read the script beforehand to see how to keep moving the story … [Read more...]

  If you have a wayward child, others know your pain. A time comes when heartsick parents must releases their grasp and leave a beloved child to God. Listen to a mother's broken heart and sense just a bit of how God feels when those whom He has lovingly created turn from Him. She was such an odd child! True, she was child of my body and even more so, child of my heart, but I just didn’t know what to do with her. Every morning, I would sing her awake, looking at her face with joy and … [Read more...]

  POY! SKIT GUIDELINES: In a small group, participants might simply read their lines, or glance at their lines to get the idea so they can speak in their own words. Most POY! skits require no practice in advance. Have any small children play a brief part. Most scripts have an optional part for children, listed last under Participants. Most scripts have a Narrator who should read the script beforehand to see how to keep moving the story along. It is not necessary to employ costumes … [Read more...]

  POY! SKIT GUIDELINES: In a small group, participants might simply read their lines, or glance at their lines to get the idea so they can speak in their own words. Most POY! skits require no practice in advance. Have any small children play a brief part. Most scripts have an optional part for children, listed last under Participants. Most scripts have a Narrator who should read the script beforehand to see how to keep moving the story along. It is not necessary to employ costumes … [Read more...]

  Church planters and shepherds of new flocks can sustain church planting movements when freed from common limiting factors. Clear away this blindness to keep moving forwards. 1.  Limitation: Many church planters are young men without jobs who must be supported by a limited source of funds that comes from outside of the region they serve. Remedy: Enlist as church planters more persons who already have an income and who would qualify as a shepherding elder as defined by the New … [Read more...]

  Dr. Dale Walker was fixing folks’ teeth on a porch in North Congo when a man began drumming a log. Openings had been cut out of the log by machete, in the shape of an upside-down V that deepened as it ran along the log. Dr. Walker asked what it was called. “Talking Drum.” “Does it really talk?” “Of course.” Doubtful, Dr. Walker challenged, “Tell that worker, the one carrying a rock, to set it down, go to that orange tree over there and bring me an orange.” Boom … [Read more...]