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Jul, 21, 2013 0
Q: How can our church help teens to feel a part of the community and then help the rest of the congregation to realize that teens are indeed a part of that community?
A: What do hanging out at Starbucks, skating in the parking lot, going to games, or playing ping-pong have to do with ministry…
Jul, 21, 2013 0
Q: It seems like every business, school, and organization wants me to like them on Facebook or follow them on Twitter. Should our church be on these sites? Any tips for how to do it?
A: You're right that businesses and other organizations are looking for your attention on social media sites like…
Jul, 21, 2013 0
In June 2013, I left our two young girls in Prince Edward Island on the Canada Atlantic District and headed as a delegate to the Nazarene Missions International (NMI) Convention in Indianapolis with my husband, Greg, (our Nazarene Youth International district president). I had the whole trip…
Jul, 10, 2013 0
My mother, Doris Ruth Martin Smith, and I were having two of the happiest days of our lives. We did not realize at the time that these would be my mother's last days. This is our story.
After mentioning to my friend and boss, Eddie Estep, about how much I have always liked trucks, he and his…
Jul, 10, 2013 0
In 2012, Portland First Church of the Nazarene (PFCN) started a new congregation called Eden Community. Pastors Mark Goodwin (MG), and Jason Veach (JV), talk about the development of this ministry and how they are seeking to reach the city of Portland, Oregon.
How did the concept of this new…
Jun, 19, 2013 0
Any tribute to Stan Toler would do well to begin with a quote from one of his many books that have challenged, inspired, and encouraged thousands. Here is one of my favorites, from God's Never Failed Me Yet:
'When you are sure of God's calling and you are obedient, it's reassuring. My value, my…
Jun, 12, 2013 0
I appreciate preachers who don't waste my time. Plenty have. But not Jesse Middendorf. His sermons were not shallow, risible, or cute. He did not traffic in the spit-shined 12-minute sermon, or the hour-long, power-pointed meandering of some 'teaching pastors.'
Those of us who heard Pastor Jesse…
Jun, 10, 2013 0
According to Genesis 41:49, Joseph stored up huge quantities of grain, like the sand of the sea, he stopped keeping records because it was beyond measure.
Since 1968, total giving as a percentage of income has decreased from 3.11 percent to below 2.5 percent representing a decline of nearly 25…
Jun, 10, 2013 0
According to Genesis 41:49, Joseph stored up huge quantities of grain, like the sand of the sea, he stopped keeping records because it was beyond measure.
Since 1968, total giving as a percentage of income has decreased from 3.11 percent to below 2.5 percent representing a decline of nearly 25…
Jun, 09, 2013 0
In late 1975, then General Superintendent Eugene Stowe came to visit the new work of the Church of the Nazarene in the Dominican Republic. His wife, Faye, invited my 25-year-old wife, Toni, to join her for breakfast.
Faye gave us an awesome gift—her words of wisdom. "Toni, the church will place…