Moderate Christian BlogrollIn an earlier post I discussed how to share your testimony. I’d like to expand on that topic by discussing how to use testimonies to good effect in worship services. All of the suggestions to those giving testimonies will apply to preparing a testimony to present in the worship services. You may [...]
1If I speak in languages both human and angelic, but do not have love, I have become like a clanging gong or a clashing cymbal. 2And if I have the gift of prophecy, and know every mystery and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so that I can remove mountains, but have no [...]
Learning new things is not easy for most of us. Generally, we go to a church that fits our own doctrinal tendencies, we attend classes that are taught by people who are sympathetic to our own views, we go to retreats by people that we are already comfortable with, and we look for continuing [...]
I’ll be posting messages indicating as groups of new radio programs are added to our archives. Normally I’ll do a post for a couple of dozen, but since I’ve added a three part series that might be of interest, I’m going to start by listing these.
Contagious Goodness, from Running Toward the Goal.Good seems to [...]
One of the great dangers for a pastor, in my view, is that he or she may get out of touch. When you deal with the problems of your church every day, and nothing but those problems, you can get a very skewed view of life, and of the body of Christ. The [...]
I have added a new section to the Pacesetters Bible School web site. For some time we had two radio programs, Running Toward the Goal which was a five minute devotional program, and The Bible Pacesetter Radio Program which was a longer teaching program. We did not maintain this radio ministry, but we [...]
May 21 9:00 & 10:30 am
Highland Hills Church
7223 Church St A-14
Highland, CA 92346
Yesterday I wrote about planning your own, effective continuing education. What is it that you need to do in order to keep up with your calling and profession, and not just check off a box indicating you’ve had enough hours?
My first note there was about spending time with God. I think this is [...]
I’ve been thinking lately about continuing education for pastors. The reason for this is that I’ve had my attention called to the problems of a seminary education by talking both to pastors and to seminary students or ministry candidates. Most pastors I talk to agree that their seminary education did not prepare them [...]
Imagine you’re at work when a coworker complains that he is having problems with his computer. Recognizing the symptoms he reports, you recall that you had the same problem just yesterday. You know the solution. You go to your coworker and tell him what he can do to solve his problem. [...]
