When They’ve Heard It All Before by Craig Brian Larson A year ago my wife’s work schedule shifted, and preparing dinner became my responsibility. My range of meals was limited: a bowl of Wheat Chex and a lunch-meat sandwich. I quickly developed an expanded array of dinners for my boys to choose from: spaghetti with...
Pastors’ Seminars
The Expository Preaching Seminar
It is essential we learn to accurately exposit the culture and the Scripture and bring the two together in applicable preaching. This seminar will focus on a number of key ingredients central to the expository process which lead to pertinent steps of implementation in people’s lives.
Eagle Flight
The seminar from which this section of our web site draws its name. Subtitled, “An Inner Journey Flight to Higher Heights,” the Eagle Flight seminar focuses on the crucial role of spiritual disciplines such as prayer, meditation, solitude, and fasting in our lives.
A Pastor’s Seminar
This seminar is designed to be accessible to pastors at the time when those rare moments of uninterrupted availability occur. My prayer is that our Lord will use this seminar to give you deeper insight into your ministry as shepherds, and for the novice, provide a foundation for your ministry.
Restore Me
“What to Do When a Brother Sins Against You” and more teaching on wandering, forgiveness, and restoration
How to Cure or Avoid Burnout
Where does a pastor go when the ministry’s own brand of stresses and emotional overload threaten to send him into that state we’ve dubbed “burnout?” Who can he talk to? Who will understand? Who can point the person who is charged with leading others to a source of help and rest? We hope this section on our site will be helpful to you if you’re in this place.
The School of Discipleship
Upon completion of this course, the participants should be able to:
Design a School of Discipleship for small or large groups, or a one-to-one discipleship ministry that will continue to multiply itself through many spiritual generations
Discover how to personalize their witness
Disciple a new convert and help to establish him/her in the basics of the faith
Develop and grow in their knowlege of God, forgiveness, ministry, and spiritual warfare
A Long Range/Study/Preaching Program.
Taken from The Navigator Bible Studies Handbook, 1979. First Year 1 Thessalonians 1 John Philippians Salvation Witnessing Follow-up Gospel of Mark Character: Barnabas Weeks 7 7 6 2 2 2 18 1 Second Year Colossians Jesus Christ (deity, death, and resurrection) 1 Timothy Character: Timothy Gospel of John Prayer Character: Josiah Isaiah 52:13-53:12 Weeks 6...
The Church’s Testing Program
The Specific Tests to Reveal False Teachers and Their Teaching “Watch out for false prophets…”—Matt. 7:15 “Apply the following tests to yourself, before you apply them to others”—Matt. 7:1-5 The first test we want to look at in evaluating the sincerity of teachers is: The Theological Test Watch your/their teaching (words). Matt. 12:33-37—”Make a tree...
Topical Bible Study
How do we prepare a topical study so that our problems are matched with accurate Scriptural answers? A 12-step process will be given in an essential outline entitled Topical Bible Study. In addition, a very complete example of a topical study on worry and anxiety will also illustrate the process. COMING SOON
Services/resources to check out, if you’re burned out
from Leadership Journal online Parsonage.org: a web site of Focus on the Family Focus on the Family’s Pastoral Care Line: Toll Free (877) 233-4455 9:00am – 4:00pm (Mountain) for pastors and their families
Internet links on burnout
Preventing Burnout and Preserving Power, by Ray Stedman Resource Ministries, International: Burnout Christianity Today: Why Pastor Steve Loves His Job CBN.com: Getting Unplugged: Entering His Rest Burnout: A Pastor’s Perspective smallchurch.com: Risk Factors for Pastors Understanding Church Burnout and What to Do About It Stress and Burnout in Ministry Burned-Out Pastors: Some Questions Suggestions from...
How to Be Strong During an Emotional Upheaval
READ: How to Be Strong During an Emotional Upheaval
Defeating Discouragement and Burnout
READ: Defeating Discouragement and Burnout
Solitude, Silence and Sabbaticals: a Powerpoint presentation for pastors
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Rehabilitation: Release for the Captive and Recovery for the Blind
Help for those caught, imprisoned and addicted.
In Luke 4, Jesus explained that He was the fulfillment of Isaiah 61's prophecy, and described His ministry to captives and those enslaved (caught and imprisoned, addicted by their sin). They are in some kind of prison or spiritual blindness and need to be released and to recover their sight. Cooperative rehabilitation is what they need: a two-fold expression of rehabilitation—release and recovery.