What I Wish I Knew as a Leader

Category: Ministry

Stage: Impact

By Pursue God

Work toward only doing what only you can do Most pastors have to start out being generalists and wearing a bunch of hats in ministry. The faster you can move toward only doing what only you can do, t...

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How the World will End (and Why it Matters)

Category: Theology

Stage: Discover

By Pursue God

Scientist tell us that the world only has half as much energy as it did 2 billion years ago. The current theory is that the world began at the Big Bang and that everything came into existence in one m...

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Why Do I Have to Tithe

Category: Christian Living

Stage: Discover

By Pursue God

Many people ask, “Why do I have to tithe? Isn’t this an Old Testament law? Since I am no longer under the law, why should I have to tithe?” Most of us don’t like to be told what to do with our...

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God's Plan for Dealing with Habits

Category: Christian Living

Stage: Discover

By Pursue God

We’ve all experienced how hard it is to break a bad habit. People try all sorts of creative techniques to get free from unwanted behavior or thought patterns, often with little success. God understa...

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Matthew 24: Are You Ready for the End?

Category: Theology

Stage: Discover

By Pursue God

In Matthew 24, we read about what Jesus has to say about what’s going to happen at the end of the world – the end times.   Matthew 24:3 (NLT) Later, Jesus sat on the Mount of Olives. His discip...

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What's Going to Happen in the End Times?

Category: Theology

Stage: Learn

By Pursue God

The Greek word “eschaton” refers to the final end of human history as we know it – what Christians call the “end times.” The Bible tells us a lot about what happens in the end times, but the...

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When Life Gives You the Unexpected

Category: Christian Living

Stage: Learn

By Pursue God

Sometimes life throws you a curveball. Things don’t go like we expect, and uncertainty in life can keep us up at night and leave us unnerved. In the second lesson from Habakkuk, we learn how God wan...

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Did Jesus ever claim to be God

Category: Theology

Stage: Discover

By Pursue God

One statement people like to challenge Christians with is, “Jesus never claimed that he was God.” Now, while Jesus never said the words exactly, “I am God,” he certainly claimed to be God mult...

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Father Son Relationship

Category: Relationships

Stage: Impact

By MenSteppingUp

My dad grew up in a small town and he was a lefty. He had a wicked curveball. His father left him and his eight brothers and sisters but he didn’t become a victim.   He demonstrated wisdo...

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An Animated Explanation of 'Heaven & Earth'

Category: Theology

Stage: Learn

By Pursue God

The theme of “Heaven and Earth” begins in the first verse of the Bible: “In the beginning God created the Heavens and the Earth.” But what’s that really about? The two spaces In the Bible,...

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Why Do People Get Away With Evil?

Category: Christian Living

Stage: Learn

By Pursue God

The book of Habakkuk is one of the most interesting books in the Bible because it features a series of complaints that are brought to God from the prophet, Habakkuk. The amazing thing is that God ans...

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Eschatology: Three Contemporary Options

Category: Theology

Stage: Learn

By Pursue God

Eschatology is the doctrine of last things. How will human history end? Many people respond to this subject emotionally. Some are absolutely fascinated. They are always watching the news to see how t...

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What Is Relational Mentoring?

Category: Ministry

Stage: Serve

By Pursue God

We want to see everyone in church experience relational mentoring and be able to mentor others in this way. Developing truly mature Christians Relational mentoring is mentoring that is focused on he...

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Does God Have Emotions?

Category: Christian Living

Stage: Discover

By Pursue God

God expresses emotions. Many Bible passages portray God as expressing emotions of many different kinds. Jeremiah 31:3 Long ago the Lord said to Israel: “I have loved you, my people, with an eve...

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Leading with the Heart

Category: Ministry

Stage: Serve

By Pursue God

Effective leadership involves leading from the head, but it also invites leading from the heart. Much of what we read and hear about leadership today focuses on external things: skill development, ti...

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Building a Team of Co-Leaders (Series) (Series)

Category: Ministry

By Pursue God

Use this track to learn how to lead your group as a team.

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Helping Others who Grieve

Category: Christian Living

Stage: Impact

By Pursue God

When people around us are grieving a loss, most of us don’t feel confident to know how to offer comfort. But you can really make a difference for a grieving person if you remember a few basic princi...

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Men & Mentors

Category: Relationships

Stage: Impact

By MenSteppingUp

Men need men to become men In 1Corinthians, Paul said to those that were struggling - follow me as i follow Christ. Being a christian is not a solo sport, it’s important to create a community ...

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Hot to Get Rid of Bitterness in Your Heart

Category: Christian Living

Stage: Discover

By Pursue God

Bitterness is often called the little brother of wrath. It’s not as potent but it still does plenty of damage.  Bitterness is our inward expression of an outward hurt Bitterness rears its ugly he...

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How to be a Man

Category: Relationships

Stage: Impact

By MenSteppingUp

How to be a Man is brought to you by Men Stepping Up, a men's ministry movement derived from FamilyLife. Watch this video to see how being a man takes faithfulness, courageousness, and righteousness. ...

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