Pursuing life lived W.E.L.L.
There are so many promises connected to this “abiding principle.” I will be fruitful if I abide. I will experience all of Christ if I abide. I will be more effective praying if I abide. IF I abide, THEN I will enjoy a productive and rewarding Christian life.
I want to share this article from a pastors wife that was posted on Mother's Day a couple years ago. I know some moms who prayed for their kids and worked hard to raise them right and tried all they could to help their children become successful adults only to see their child make poor …
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Did you know Crown Financial Ministries offers an online professional quality career interest inventory assessment program? You get the basic results for $25 and more in depth results if you are willing to pay more. As a pastor I often get asked to pray for people's job situations and often recommend tools like this to …
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This year I making more of an effort to help other church pastors and ministry leaders find helpful resources for their ministry. And by sharing my list with you it will be easy for me and my volunteers to remember where they are. I used to work in the marketing department for well known brand …
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We've been talking about a making a devotional podcast separate from the church sermons to reach more people and this is the beginning of that project. To get it started I needed to use existing audio so I just posted a recent sermon to get Anchor podcast system setup. Watch for new content soon. https://anchor.fm/chris-teien/
Here are links to some spiritual gift and personality tests I like. The more experience you get serving the Lord the more effective these test are. It is fun to study spiritual gifts and consider what your gift(s) might be. The topic lists from GotQuestions.org are helpful. The first four resources and free and the …
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As I was sitting in the waiting area getting my tire repaired at Belle Plaine Coop Tire I picked up this book “Lemons: The World’s Worst Cars” and it had the stories and pictures of cars from the past that turned out to be not so great. It included flying cars that eventually crashed, the …
I have been sharing these Connecting with God booklets for years with people of all ages. Here is a helpful instruction guide to give you ideas how to best share your faith using these booklets. Using a booklet to share the gospel is helpful because it takes the pressure off of you. You don’t have …
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Songs to encourage and inspire you that our loving God is still in control and we can trust Him for our every need (even with the Covid mess). https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0R9mVmmNAAj8F9a58jiW7Q?si=-I2eOm0FQ5WCbW9gwIhYsg
My favorite free Bible app is YouVersion. My favorite Bible Study PC Program is Wordsearch but their Android/iOS apps are lame. If you have a lot of money to spend Logos Bible Software and their apps are good but their books are high priced. I also have study Bibles I bought for Kindle & Google Play …
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It is hard to find Christian movies on Netflix now that many of the producers have taken them to their own streaming services like Pureflix.com which is sad because I think Christian movies should be out in the public arena like Netflix so that non-Christians might have an opportunity to easily see them. I am …
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I have been driving around with a big "I AM SECOND.com" sign on the back window of my truck ever since my adult son died of an accidental drug overdose in 2016. When people ask me what is "I AM SECOND.com" I tell them it is a website full of videos of famous and not-so-famous …
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