My wife, Karen, collects angels. And she’s done that for years now. A book fell off the shelf at the house last week and knocked over a nice porcelain angel, breaking off both its wings. I glued them back in place, so that you wouldn’t really know anything happened unless you looked very closely. It wasn’t a big deal.

What is a big deal is putting broken people back together. Now that’s a specialty of Christ’s. He’s very good at it. Quite often in the process, He makes use of the resources He has in His church.

I applaud Jesus for His unusual skill in mending broken lives. And, I rejoice to be part of a church that’s helping Him in this work. Many times you wouldn’t know anything was wrong, unless you looked very closely.

 

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I am grateful that I continue to hear how positively readers are responding to my latest book entitled The Sermon Sucking Black Hole—Why You Can’t Remember on Monday What Your Minister Preached on Sunday. This book is available at Amazon.com by clicking here.

In this book, I offer some solid tips to the people sitting in the congregation to help them remember what their pastor has said from the pulpit.

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For the devout Jew, Sabbath begins at sundown on Friday night. That’s when the world of work stops and the time of re-creation begins—when man is no longer just a worker, but also a worshiper.

Borrowing from the Jewish pattern of starting on sundown the evening before, I like using Saturday night as a time of getting ready for worship on Sunday morning. I’ve found that cramming Saturday full of activities and carrying those late into the evening—well, it’s not a good way to ensure that worship is meaningful the next morning.

This weekend, why not try what I’m suggesting? By sundown on Saturday, start to intentionally slow down your day. And, at the same time, start to get ready to meet the Lord the following morning by spending some time in Scripture and prayer. I believe you’ll find it makes a huge difference.

 

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I am grateful that I continue to hear how positively readers are responding to my latest book entitled The Sermon Sucking Black Hole—Why You Can’t Remember on Monday What Your Minister Preached on Sunday. This book is available at Amazon.com by clicking here.

In this book, I offer some solid tips to the people sitting in the congregation to help them remember what their pastor has said from the pulpit.

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He was a nice-looking man, well-educated and now a new father. And that’s one reason he didn’t want to be gone for a month. I met him in India.

He continued, “The people in the north aren’t as friendly as where I come from. Their food is different. Last time on the train, I was robbed. But this is my calling. Not nearly as many people in North India know about Christ as they do in South India, where I live.”

This young Indian Christian knew something many believers in the United States have missed—that serving Christ often involves taking up a cross, experiencing a bit of suffering.

I often think of that young evangelist when I get tired and maybe when I’m inconvenienced a bit. I’m glad he’s in the cause. I want to be more like he is.

 

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I am grateful that I continue to hear how God is using my latest book entitled The Sermon Sucking Black Hole—Why You Can’t Remember on Monday What Your Minister Preached on Sunday. This book is available at Amazon.com by clicking here.

In this book, I offer some solid tips to the people sitting in the congregation to help them remember what their pastor has said from the pulpit.

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You will find a variety of other helpful resources for pastors and congregations at the Mainstay Ministries website. Please click here.

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There are lots of people in our churches with needs nowadays. And, our churches also have many people with more resources than they can use.

Have you seen the storage places an individual or family can rent? It’s extra space to put stuff they want but don’t really need. I have a feeling Christians might rent some of those places, which isn’t wrong. It’s just that some of our other church people could possibly use the very things being stored.

Let me write that we need to devise ways that the excess some of us have can be shared. It’s probably more a matter of networking than anything else.

The combining of resources—that’s definitely a skill the church needs to work to improve. But, it’s not something new and revolutionary. Acts 4:32 reads: “All the believers were one in heart and mind. No one claimed that any of their possessions was their own, but they shared everything they had.” As an obvious result, there was no needy person among them. I really like that.

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I am grateful that I continue to hear how God is using my latest book entitled The Sermon Sucking Black Hole—Why You Can’t Remember on Monday What Your Minister Preached on Sunday. This book is available at Amazon.com by clicking here.

This book gives some solid tips to the people sitting in the congregation to help them remember what you’ve said from the pulpit when they come to worship services in the church where you serve as pastor.

 

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Please click here to visit David Mains’ Sermon-Coach.com website.

You will also find a variety of resources for pastors and congregations at the Mainstay Ministries website. Please click here.

 

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