ministry

Changing Times are Challenging Times

by 53X11 on March 30, 2011

God is really showing me His grace and wisdom right now. After about 10 years with the same pastor (at two different churches) and lots of deep relationships with some great Christian brothers, God is leading me and my wife to step out and find his next home for us. My wife has not felt [...]

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Dwight Schrute of ministries

by 53X11 on February 25, 2010

Recently I read about the results of a study done by several prominent universities (unfortunately I don’t remember them as I write this, but they were east and west coast schools known for research I do remember) that determined businesses that have a Dwight Schrute type individuals on teams make better decisions. For those that [...]

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Alamo sentenced

by 53X11 on November 13, 2009

Evangelist Tony Alamo, who is 75 now, was sentenced to 175 years in prison for transmitting under aged girls across state lines for sexual intercourse. Alamo took numerous underages girls as his “brides” in the name of God and as his role as the ministry leader. Alamo even threatened the girls that they would lose [...]

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Swing Low

by 53X11 on September 28, 2009

Milton Stanley of Transforming Sermons has a nice post up linking too a few posts (post here and here) by Peter Mead about low points in ministry. Peter and Milton (via comment on Peter’s post) make the points that the real key is working through low times in ministry / with God is to come [...]

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