Family ministry is one of the farthest reaching and greatest opportunities that the local church has to teach kids, develop leaders, and equip parents in order to train up and disciple the next generation. When a local church embraces the unique possibility of an intentionally ...
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Family
What is Family Ministry?
By Steven Ackley
Family ministry is one of the greatest opportunities the local church has to teach kids, develop leaders, and equip parents in order to train up and disciple the next generation. When a local church embraces the unique possibility of an intentionally designed ...
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Casting Vision for Your Family This Year
By Eric Mason
Every January, my family and I spent time together seeking the Lord for the coming year. We look at our family vision then lay out every factor of our family life in a chart:
What is the area?
What is the need?
What is its biblical basis?
What does ...
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Pastors and Their Children –
by Ronnie Floyd
One of the greatest legacies of any pastor is for his children to grow up loving God and loving the Church passionately.
Yet, this is often not the story of the children of a pastor. Why? Unfortunately, there is no easy answer to this question.
A Brief ...
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Practice What You Preach: Turning to Jesus In Exhaustion –
by Adam Weber
I became a pastor and started Embrace when I was twenty-four years old. It wasn’t my idea. I was available and God had a plan. We sent a couple of emails to see if anyone might be interested in coming to a meeting to hear about the possibility of starting a new ...
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What To Do When People Are the Worst –
“Dear brothers and sisters, after we were separated from you for a little while (though our hearts never left you), we tried very hard to come back because of our intense longing to see you again.” – 1st Thessalonians 2:17 NLT
As a young pastor, I felt exactly as Paul describes ...
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