The Miracle of Online Ministry: Embracing Your Call As A Media Missionary

I hear the concern everywhere— complaints about social media and fears about what our time online is doing to us society.  Combine that with the frustration of not knowing what’s real and what’s not and we have a recipe for throwing up our hands and throwing out all digital connections. Online danger is real. Discouragement is real. Fatigue is real. But if we focus only on the negatives of interacting online, we risk missing one of the most miraculous tools of our time...

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A Ministry Year in Review

Reflect . Refocus . Renew. The path of ministry is a journey of a lifetime—one fraught with discovery and discouragement.  We can avoid some of its pitfalls if we define that path early on. I’ve found for me—even in the hectic days leading up to Christmas—my thoughts turn backward as I evaluate my year.

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Stop Wasting Your Time and Start Using Your Gifts

As I look back, I realize that a driving force behind most of what I’ve done in my life has been the desire for significance—to do something with my gifts.
I admit that I want my life to count. I don’t want to just flow through this earthly existence from my birth date to the day I die and leave nothing behind except the dash on my tombstone to indicate that I was here.

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