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Fall 2003: The Calling

Volume 24
Fall

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In this Issue
From the Editor
Marshall Shelley
Currents Shaping Our World: The Purpose-Driven BestSeller
Devotional tops secular charts, and your church is reading it.
With information from USA Today and LeadershipJournal.net
Currents Shaping My Church: Has Your Church Jumped the Shark?
Leadership lessons from Fonzie's waterskiing feat.
David and Angie Ward
Currents Shaping My Soul: Why Do They Love/Hate Me?
Attitudes toward a pastor emerge from deep, dark sources.
Kevin A. Miller
Currents: In Search of Spiritual Community
A converstation with Carmen Renee Berry
A conversation with Carmen Renee Berry
Called to What?
A Leadership Forum
Erwin McManus, Glenn Wagner, and Leith Anderson
How Pastors Rate as Leaders
Leadership surveys pastors and their congregations.
Eric Reed and Collin Hansen
God's Calling Plan
So what exactly is a call to ministry?
Gordon MacDonald
Rescuing the Search
Mark Lauterbach
Jilted Again
Candidating means you gotta handle rejection.
Bob Myers
Discipleship
When Your Wife Resents Your Call
A disconnect at home has a variety of causes.
Linda Riley
The Fine Art of Rejuvenation
The Fine Art of Rejuvenation
How 3 leaders renew the call when they're confused, tired, or just plain mad.
Heidi Husted, Roberta Hestenes, and Jim Coyl
Tired of Playing It Safe in Ministry?
Outreach
Tired of Playing It Safe in Ministry?
This "pastorpreneur" heard a higher (and harder) calling.
John Jackson
Helping Others Answer the Call
Your response to those who feel called may affect the future course of their ministry. An interview with Maxie Dunnam
An interview with Maxie Dunnam
Inside Preaching
M. Craig Barnes
Sermon Workshop: Power in the Punch Line
How distilling your messages makes them more potent.
Andy Stanley
Sunday Toolkit: To Illustrate
Discipleship
Sunday Toolkit: To Illustrate
Sunday Toolkit: Worship Tools
Leadership
My Church's inferiority Complex
How one congregation traded the poor little us mindset for new confidence.
Peter Youmans
At Offering Time, My Job Is on the Line
When your congregation's financial 'inferiority' causes problems for your bank account.
George R. Cannon, Jr.
I Actually Like Elders Meetings!
One question changed my tune and taught me to move in step with them.
Keith Mannes
How We Tamed the Big List
Are your to dos too long?
Grant McDowell
Thinking Global
Outreach
Thinking Global
When the pastor becomes a missions force, the whole church is affected.
Daniel Henderson
Growing Edge Book Review: Why Words Follow Works
When explosive evangelism fizzles and servant evangelism doesn't work, what's next?
Kathy Callahan-Howell
Vic's War
Leadership's Top 40: #14
Vic's War
50 years after a regrettable bombing raid, a vet ends his silence ... because a pastor knew what to ask, and when.
David Hansen

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