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		<title>Five Subtle Ways Satan Sneaks Into Your Pulpit</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Take five minutes out. Lean back in your chair at the office or put your feet up in your recliner. You might close your eyes to help you think and ponder. Now ask yourself a question that could determine if you&#8217;ll still have an effective ministry 20 years from now: &#8220;If Satan were to sneak [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=4given2serve.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2184012&amp;post=1437&amp;subd=4given2serve&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Managing the Clock in Your Preaching</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[More than fifteen years ago, I was beginning a series of meetings in Newark, New Jersey on a holiday weekend. The church started the meetings with a long musical program which minimized the focus of the evangelistic message. When the pastor went to the pulpit to introduce me, it was 11:50 a.m. and the services [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=4given2serve.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2184012&amp;post=1435&amp;subd=4given2serve&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Blair Wingo &#8211; Allow me to re-introduce the Christ</title>
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		<title>9 Tips to Keep Your Preaching Fresh on Special Days</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Nov 2011 20:24:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It was Mother’s Day. I knew the two well-dressed elderly ladies glaring at me were visitors because they sat in the front row. In the middle of my sermon, one said aloud to the other, “This isn’t about mothers.” The other responded, “What kind of church is this?” and together they looked down the row [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=4given2serve.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2184012&amp;post=1430&amp;subd=4given2serve&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>5 Warning Signs of Declining Church Health</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[December 17, 2004, should have been a day of celebration. Nellie Jo and I had been married 27 years on that date. We were in Naples, Florida, enjoying the sunshine and each other. Then the phone call came. We had been given a great deal of confidence that the biopsy would likely prove negative. Proceed [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=4given2serve.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2184012&amp;post=1428&amp;subd=4given2serve&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Fix My Small Groups!&#8221; 6 Church-Tested Solutions</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Nov 2011 19:54:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Think you’re alone in your small groups ministry struggles? Think again. Many small groups suffer from uncommitted members, poor leadership and other serious dysfunctions. Read on to discover cures. It was a great small group. Members shared from the heart, learned from the Word and genuinely cared for each other. When they showed up, that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=4given2serve.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2184012&amp;post=1423&amp;subd=4given2serve&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Biblical Preaching Is About Life ChangeNot Sermon Form</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Oct 2011 22:37:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The core value of preaching that changes lives is that it’s biblical. You and I don’t change lives. God changes lives. For two thousand years, he has used the power of this Word to convict stubborn hearts of sin, to move cold spirits to repentance, and to lift faltering lives to hope. The question that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=4given2serve.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2184012&amp;post=1420&amp;subd=4given2serve&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>6 Tips from Small Church for Ministries of Any Size</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Oct 2011 22:35:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few years ago, my neighbors, Dan and Jill Johnson and their two kids, became enthralled with a megachurch. About every other month, they’d travel 200 miles to attend and soak up the excitement of the super church—the lively, professional worship, the elaborate stage sets, the extensive children’s ministry. It seemed like the super church [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=4given2serve.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2184012&amp;post=1418&amp;subd=4given2serve&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Making the Message Memorable</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Oct 2011 19:19:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Like most pastors, I learned early on that if my preaching was to be powerful, it had to be memorable. That sounded simple enough—until I had to pull it off week in and week out. All too often, I’d spend hours putting a sermon together hoping to change lives—only to find out later that the only thing [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=4given2serve.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2184012&amp;post=1415&amp;subd=4given2serve&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Art of Creating Change in Your Church</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Oct 2011 11:01:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A stagnant organization is a dying organization. Change means growth and growth means change. Our criterion for change is never the latest “church growth” fad or the newest innovation of that church down the street. Change must be from the prompting of the Holy Spirit. Change for the sake of change is never appropriate. “This isn’t working; let’s try [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=4given2serve.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2184012&amp;post=1413&amp;subd=4given2serve&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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