Rest. Renewal. Resolutions.

Rest and Renewal for Busy Church Leaders Practical Ministry Skills Consider ways to work in more opportunities for rest and renewal amid all the pressures and busyness of daily ministry. New Year’s Anti-Resolution: Stop Setting Goals Why I plan to live with less intention. By Susan Arico My New Year’s resolution this year is unusual, [...]

Prayer Starters for the 1st 31 Days of 2012

Consider your ways in the New Year by Don Whitney KANSAS CITY, Mo. (BP) – Once, when the people of God had become careless in their relationship with Him, the Lord rebuked them through the prophet Haggai. “Consider your ways!” (Haggai 1:5) he declared, urging them to reflect on some of the things happening to them [...]

Have a Merry Jesus Christmas!

Heroes and Villains of Christmas   Every good story has villains and heroes — and the Christmas story is one of the best there is. Phil Miglioratti looks at the characters of the Christmas story and how we can learn from them all, this season and always.

Chan: Most of us are praying incorrectly. Agree?

Francis Chan: Christians Not Praying How God Intended  Many Christians today are praying the wrong way, all too often focused on themselves than on the mission of God, influential preacher and bestselling author Francis Chan lamented.

The Prayer Champion Pastor

Why We Need More ‘Chaplains’ and Fewer Leaders What’s a pastor for? Mark Galli Eugene Peterson put it this way in The Contemplative Pastor: “The primary language of the cure of souls … is conversation and prayer. Being a pastor means learning to use language in which personal uniqueness is enhanced and individual sanctity recognized and [...]

Recent posts on the 6:4 Blog

The 6:4 Blog Do We REALLY Pray in Our Churches? A good bothersome article by Thom Rainer . . . It Seems to Me … It Seems To Me . . . . . . Highway 501 is my unappreciated friend. Our youngest daughter and her husband moved to Myrtle Beach, South Carolina a bunch [...]

Conference: Balancing Prayer & the Word

The 6:4 Fellowship National Conference Friday, May 18, 2012 – Saturday, May 19, 2012 Location: College Park Church, 2606 W 96th St., Indianapolis, IN US 46268 Cost: $85.00 Conference Schedule: Friday, May 18 7:30  – Registration 8:45 – Opening General Session – Mark Vroegop 10:15 -  Break (refreshments) 10:45 – Breakout Sessions – six choices Noon – Lunch Provided (General Attendees) [...]

The (Acts) 6:4 Conference

  The 6:4 Fellowship National Conference   We hope you will mark your calendar now and make plans to join us in a powerful experience of the grace and truth of Jesus Christ, May 18 & 19, 2012 in Indianapolis, Indiana.   The 6:4 Fellowship is privileged to host REDiscover2012, our first national conference for leaders.  The conference is [...]

Thank you, Pastor & Spouse

ASSIST News Service (ANS) - PO Box 609, Lake Forest, CA 92609-0609 USA Visit our web site at: www.assistnews.net – E-mail: assistnews@aol.com Thursday, October 13, 2011 Pastors and their spouses help change lives By Bill Ellis Special to ASSIST News Service SCOTT DEPOT, WV (ANS) – Most pastors have a wife because most pastors are men. There are, however, an increasing number [...]

Praying for Spiritual Leaders

        October is Pastor Appreciation Month.  Please help us bless your pastor by giving him a membership to The 6:4 Fellowship, a new network of pastors committed to “prayer and the ministry of the word” (Acts 6:4).  See www.64fellowship.com.  He will enjoy a year of practical resources to encourage his heart and calling.  For [...]

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