Church Transfer Growth: Fictional Letter to a Fellow Pastor
Dear Fellow Pastor, Thanks for reaching out about the recent developments in your ministry. Your excitement about your church’s growth is palpable. It’s definitely a “good problem” to decide how many services, classes, and/or groups you need to support this growth! As I’ve told you before, our church prays for you and your church. We regularly pray for other Bible-believing, gospel-preaching churches in our region. While we differ on...
Honor Where Honor Is Due
In December 1994, our family pulled up in front of 940 Blue Mountain Lane in Antioch, Tennessee. My mother had never seen the house in person. She trusted my dad to pick out a house for us. We pulled up to the house with a moving truck, a red Plymouth van, and an old Nissan pickup. We’d spent the last few years in Waldorf, Maryland, where my dad had pastored a recent church plant. We were moving to the Nashville area for my dad to...
HSF Conversations: Christians and the Military with Richard E. Myrick
In this episode of HSF Conversations, senior contributor and associate editor Phillip T. Morgan discusses with retired Lieutenant Colonel Dr. Richard E. Myrick what it is like for a Christian to serve in the military, the unique opportunities and challenges that military life offers, and how churches can best minister to those serving in the military. With twenty years of active service in the United States Marine Corps, Dr. Myrick...
HSF Conversations: Ordinary Means of Grace Church Planting
In this episode of HSF Conversations, Ed Goode and Daniel Mann, church planters in Illinois, join us to discuss ordinary means of grace church planting. We discuss church planting books and blogs, whether or not those resources promote ordinary means of grace ministry, what ordinary means of grace ministry is, and what ordinary means of grace ministry looks like in the life of the church. About Ed Goode: I grew up in a happy home and...
HSF Conversations: Tell Us About Your Sermon Prep with Ed Goode and Daniel Mann
In this episode of HSF Conversations, we continue our occasional series “Tell Us About Your Preaching” by discussing sermon preparation with pastors and church planters Ed Goode and Daniel Mann. Ed serves as pastor of the Bridge Church in Champaign, IL, and Daniel pastors the Living Hope Free Will Baptist Church in Skokie, IL. Tune in to hear Ed and Daniel discuss how they develop their sermons, how they choose resources...
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