The Case "I don't believe in God," the man tells you straight out. "But tell me why you believe." So you start in, not realizing you are about to learn a hard lesson in what evangelism means for a new millennium.
Your description about how you came to belief in the saving power of Jesus Christ is cut short. "I've heard all that before," your friend says. Then he begins telling you about someone he ...
When You Get the Call What to do when someone is threatening suicide. James D. Berkley
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Suicide intervention is a life-and-death crisis. Bobble it, and we may not get a second chance.
Before he became a pastor, a man we'll call Terry was at work one day when he received a phone call. The caller, Howard, was the 34-year-old son of a fellow worker. Terry knew of Howard's continuing problem with drug abuse, and he remembered that Howard had been hospitalized a while back for psychiatric ...
Pam was a straight-A student, president of the church youth group, and a top competitor in state track.
Just a year before graduation, however, her parents found her dead in the car, the exhaust pipe stuffed with rags.
Pam's bewildering actions illustrate a raging American epidemic: suicide. The problem is increasing especially among teenagers. For those fifteen to nineteen years old, suicide is the ...
After a Suicide What is the best way to serve those left behind? Randy Christian
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Perhaps this hasn't happened to you, but it has certainly happened to others.
The secretary hands you a note. Emergency, it says. Call home.
Your throat is dry as you punch the buttons on the phone in your office. When your spouse answers after a single ring, the hello seems scared, forlorn, raw from crying.
Two minutes later you hang up the phone. Your hand is trembling. Your throat feels swollen. All ...
Man of Sorrows His firstborn son had broken his heart. Had he also broken his ministry? Harold Fickett
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Before the fall of 1972, whenever the Rev. Don Treadwell drove by a hitchhiker whose lank hair fell to the shoulder straps of his backpack, he would count his blessings and take satisfaction in the way his three kids were turning out.
That Thanksgiving, Don, Jr., the eldest, staged a sudden rebellion.
Fifteen years of age, the boy stood six foot three. He had his mother's looks—honey blond hair, ...
(This article was excerpted from the BuildingChurchLeaders.com Training Theme Reaching Our Community)
"Growing numbers of Americans say they are spiritual but not religious," says Robert Wuthnow in After Heaven, his assessment of American spiritual development since 1950. It is a spirituality without truth or authority but filled with belief in the supernatural. It is a trend born of the modern fears ...
ARTICLE Trends & Culture Take an honest look at the society in which most churches today are functioning and learn how to minister in that context. from BuildingChurchLeaders.com
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