CT Classic: Is Halloween a Witches' Brew? by Harold Myra

The contemporary Christian often finds Halloween an uncomfortable topic. It's a bit like walking past a graveyard and detecting among the tombstones a thoroughly raucous party in progress—a bizarre mixture of horrible screams and merriment—and wondering who might have called it. What is this mishmash of innocent fun, ugly pranks, and witches' taunts? And what indeed, might be "holy" about All Hallow's Eve?

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Weekend Picture - Joel Reynolds

Communicating the Message - Andy Stanley

Preaching on Sunday mornings is such a simple thing and by complicating it, I think we all do ourselves and the audience a disservice. It is very simple. Here is the model: Make people feel like they need an answer to a question. Then take them to God's Word to answer the question. And tell them why it is important to do what we just talked about. And then you close by saying, "Wouldn't it be great if everybody did that?" And that's it. It is a journey. You take people from somewhere to somewhere....Andy Stanley


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Never Stop Learning - by Tim Stevens

Something he said stood out to me: "I learned several things Sunday, and a couple of them are really going to help me in my preaching."  Read More ...

Eyeball to Eyeball Ministry - by Patrick Morley

Here is one sure way of knowing whether or not you are discipling men to lead powerful lives transformed by Jesus Christ: Go eyeball to eyeball and have a meaningful conversation.

To give a man a book to help him on his journey to biblical manhood is a tremendous discipleship tool. I am amazed at the impact of Christian literature. If I had not personally seen how much books change men's lives, I would never have believed it. But the impact of a book generally plateaus far below its full potential unless, guess what, you go eyeball to eyeball and have a meaningful conversation about what the man has read.

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Man in the Mirror  Weekly Briefing #340

Financial Need

Mayeline Torres / Financial Need

Christmas had arrived and a new year was soon to unfold for Mayeline and her two sons. Like so many, the holidays had stretched her single-mom budget to the max. Then on December 29th crisis struck as they discovered her son's kidneys were failing. Soon hospital bills piled up pushing Mayeline's fragile budget over the edge.

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