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Audio Message: Can We Really Reach the Entire World?

Several weeks ago, I preached a message called “Simple Math – The Power of Discipleship” at North Pointe Baptist Church in Wooster, Ohio.  In the message, we looked at God’s method for how we can reach the entire world of the gospel.  Attached below are my sermon notes, Keynote presentation slides, and link to the [...]

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Ideas for Discipling Young Men

Recently, a friend of mine emailed me asking for ideas about discipling and training young men with a heart for God.  I jotted down a few ideas for him that you might find helpful.  Here are my thoughts: Be passionate and eat up with serving the Lord, and who you are will influence those around [...]

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Leadership With Vision Podcast

My pastor, Austin Gardner, has started a brand new podcast called “Leadership With Vision.”  In this podcast, he shares some very helpful truths about leadership, missions, evangelism, discipleship, church-planting, and training others.  The first three episodes are about: Cross Cultural Relations, Training Leaders, and Leading Softly. All of these have been a great help to me, and [...]

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Three Characteristics of a Servant Leader

source‎ 3 Characteristics of a Servant Leader: Serving Is the Highest Profession by Paul Chappell The highest model of leadership is cloaked in the lowest forms of humility. Specifically, servant leadership was set and demonstrated by Christ Himself when He left Heaven’s glory and “took upon him the form of a servant” (Philippians 2:7). What does “the [...]

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Advice for a Young Person Trying to Find the Will of God for Their Life

Recently, I was emailed by a young man asking me to give him some advice on how to find the will of God for his life.  Below are a few thoughts that I wrote down and emailed to him: Read the revealed will of God in the Word of God every day and seek to [...]

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Classic Example of Be-Do-Serve-Train

Ezra 7:10 “For Ezra had prepared his heart to seek the law of the LORD, and to do it, and to teach in Israel statutes and judgments.” Ezra 7:25 “And thou, Ezra, after the wisdom of thy God, that is in thine hand, set magistrates and judges, which may judge all the people that are [...]

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Passing the Baton of Faith to the Next Generation

Deuteronomy 6:6-7 “And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart: And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.” Deuteronomy 6:20-23 “And [...]

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Feed on Truth; Don’t Fight About It!

By Charles H. Spurgeon TWO learned doctors are angrily discussing the nature of food, and allowing their meal to lie untasted, while a simple countryman is eating as heartily as he can of that which is set before him. The religious world is full of quibblers, critics, and skeptics, who, like the doctors, fight over [...]

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The Teacher’s Toughest Pupil

Romans 2:21 “Thou therefore which teachest another, teachest thou not thyself? thou that preachest a man should not steal, dost thou steal? Thou that sayest a man should not commit adultery, dost thou commit adultery? thou that abhorrest idols, dost thou commit sacrilege? Thou that makest thy boast of the la, through breaking the law [...]

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The Fickle Crowd vs The Faithful Church

Acts 14:18-23 “And with these sayings scarce restrained they the people, that they had not done sacrifice unto them. And there came thither certain Jews from Antioch and Iconium, who persuaded the people, and having stoned Paul, drew him out of the city, supposing he had been dead. Howbeit, as the disciples stood round about [...]

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