Leadership in Youth Ministry
Part of the job of a Youth leader is to train up the church leaders of tomorrow. It's exciting....
Leadership in youth ministry, part II
Yesterday we talked about several good youth ministry leadership resources. Here are three more...
Who will mentor the mentors?
The latest Online Pulpit essay is up, and asks an unusual question: if you're in a leadership...
Charles Spurgeon's sense of humor
Even if you aren't a student of church history, you may have heard of the preacher and author...
How to choose worship songs for a church service
Have you ever wondered what kind of thought and planning goes into choosing the songs you sing...
The ministries in the Gospel.com Community organize information into 'topics' to help you find what you're looking for. Learn more
The Store Is Yours! - #6018
God has thrown open His storehouse to His children. He's unlocked His infinite resources and promised that our prayer of faith would unleash those resources and aim them at the need we have, the situation we face, or the person we love. When you are praying, don't ever forget you really are touching heaven, changing earth.
http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-personal-power/the-store-is-yours-6018
Changing The Climate - #6010
Over time, one person can have amazing power to change the atmosphere and to improve the climate. In the places God has put you, why don't you be the one who quietly leads everyone else to something better? Don't wait for someone else to change. You have the power to start changing the climate in your personal world.
http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-personal-power/changing-the-climate-6010
Happy Delays - #6002
I can't begin to see all the incredible purposes of God and the unexplainable ways of God, but I can begin to settle down and trust that any delay - that every delay is for my good and for His glory. And when I finally do see some of His reasons for the delay, I will be so grateful that He took His time!
http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-personal-power/happy-delays-6002
Dynamite Praying - #5994
Frankly, our prayers are often so small, so predictable, so unworthy of the great God with whom we're talking. When you pray to a very big God for very big things, beginning with big things to happen in you, prepare for something explosive to happen. That will be the sound of your God blowing the lid off things!
http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-personal-power/dynamite-praying-5994
Responding to Hostile Fire - #5979
It's amazing what can happen when hostility is greeted with gentleness, when harshness is greeted with tenderness, when anger is greeted with love and understanding. When someone is shooting at you, you've got an incredible opportunity not to shoot them down, but to show them Jesus.
http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-personal-power/responding-to-hostile-fire-5979
God's Strange Road to Power - #5954
Let God shine His holy light on the dark corners of you that you've never let Him touch. And tear up that contract you want God to sign; the one with all the ways you've wanted things to be. Give Him a blank piece of paper, pre-signed by you to do whatever He writes on it. You're at the end of your power and at the beginning of His. Surrendering is the way to winning, and powerlessness is the most powerful position in the world.
http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-personal-power/gods-strange-road-to-power-5954
Climate Control - #5940
You're a leader. You're setting a climate, whether you realize it or not. And the interesting thing is that you end up reaping the climate you sow. So make the place where you are feel like it would if Jesus were there. He is.
http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-relationships/climate-control-5940
The Incredible Shrinking Me - #5933
If you can surrender the control and the credit, you are ready for the incredible shrinking you. Our lives become more incredible than we could ever have imagined as our ego and our interests and our self-reliance begin to recede, and our lives become more about Jesus than ever before.
http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-personal-power/the-incredible-shrinking-me-5933
Outlets Without Power - #5926
With so much pressure on you, there just doesn't seem to be the power to handle it all. Your spirituality, your religion may give you some spiritual experiences, but that's not the power we really need. We need spiritual power that changes the things about us that we have never been able to change; to beat the things that have always beaten us.
http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-personal-power/outlets-without-power-5926
Your Lingering Aroma - #3342
It could even be that your positive actions are actually cancelled out by the stinky atmosphere you bring - the stress, the insensitivity, and the criticism you create while you're doing all those good things. You can be doing great stuff and have a lousy attitude and drag people down. What people are supposed to experience by being around you is "the fragrance of the knowledge of Jesus."
http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-relationships/your-lingering-aroma-3342