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Today I'm sharing 5 top quotes from Vance Havner, a man described as "The Dean of America's Revival Preachers."
"God uses broken things. It takes broken soil to produce a crop, broken clouds to give ...
"The call of Christ is the call to abandon everything that competes with Him."
"The call of God is not extraordinary work, but ordinary work done in an extraordinary way."
"Beware of competing calls...
Dear Pastor,
Today I'm sharing 5 top quotes from A. W. Tozer, a prominent Christian pastor and author in the early and mid-20th century:
"What comes into our minds when we think about God is the mos...
"Prayer does not equip us for greater worksâprayer is the greater work."
"We look upon prayer as a means of getting things for ourselves; the Bibleâs idea of
prayer is that we may get to know God Hims...
Pastors, need a bit of inspiration for yourself, your sermons or your congregation? Look no further than Oswald Chambers, author of the world's bestselling devotional, My Utmost for His Highest.
In rem...
Pastors, need a bit of inspiration for yourself, your sermons or your congregation?
Look no further than Vance Havner, a man described as "The Dean of America's Revival Preachers." Billy Graham once ...
âThroughout His life, all things worked together for His good, not to screen Him from suffering, but to cause Him to suffer, and to make Him triumphant through those sufferings.â
â Charles Spurgeon in ...
âThe prayer of the apostles is a suitable prayer for ministers, âLord increase our faith.â For if our faith be not increased, we cannot expect that the faith of the multitude will be.â
â Charles Spurge...
âChrist is your life; such a life as you never knew before, nor could have known apart from him. If ye then be risen with Christ ye walk in newness of life, while the world abideth in death.â
â Charles...
âA Christless gospel is a useless gospel. Our sermons should be so perfumed with Jesus that never should a congregation gather and separate without perceiving a savour of Christ.â
â Charles Spurgeon in...
âIn the person of the Lord Jesus Christ we see gentleness, meekness, and tenderest affection, and we see the most hearty sympathy with everything that belongs to manhood.â
â Charles Spurgeon in his ser...
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Meet Dr. Nelson Searcy
Nelson Searcy is the Founding and Lead Pastor of The Journey Church, with locations across New York City and in Boca Raton, FL. By Godâs grace, he identified and developed the Eight Systems of a Healthy ChurchŸ that he has used to coach over 5,000 churches in the US and around the world to adapt those eight systems to their unique ministry fields, resulting in great health and growth.
Nelson regularly coaches pastors online and in-person through the Church Leader Insights and Renegade Pastors Network ministries that he founded. He also leads several annual pastor in-person conferences and online training events. In ministry for more than 25 years, Nelson and his church routinely appear on lists such as âThe 50 Most Influential Churchesâ and âThe 25 Most Innovative Leaders.â
He is the author of over 100 church growth resources and 20+ books, including The Renegade Pastor: Abandoning Average in Your Life and Ministry, The Difference Maker: Using Your Everyday Life for Eternal Impact, and Fusion: Turning First-Time Guests Into Fully-Engaged Members of Your Church. Nelson is the recipient of the prestigious Donald A. McGavran Award for Outstanding Leadership in Great Commission Research.
He is a longtime student of church history, especially mastering the areas of evangelism and church growth. He divides his time between NYC and South Florida. He battled Stage 4 cancer and has been cancer-free since 2018, praise God! He has an amazing wife, Kelley, and a teenage son, Alexander, who continues to grow in so many ways.
