- Follow The Disciple's Road on WordPress.com
-
Join 427 other subscribers
Top Posts & Pages
- Dragons in the Bible
- Does God Want Everyone to Get Married?
- Giants in the Bible
- The 10 Times Israel Tested God
- The Curious Case of the Tribes of Reuben, Gad, & Manasseh
- Should We Pray Silently to Keep Satan from Hearing?
- Was Solomon Saved?
- God Came from Teman
- The Snowstorm That Helped Charles Spurgeon Get Saved
- The Shekinah Glory of God
Categories
Tags
- Adultery
- atheism
- being thankful
- Belief
- Bible
- Bible Study
- Charles Spurgeon
- Christ's Resurrection
- Christ's yoke
- christianity
- Christmas
- Chuck Swindoll
- Church
- Church Attendance
- Constantine
- Contentment
- Demons
- discerning God's will
- Divorce
- Easter
- Eternal Security
- Evangelism
- evidences for the virgin birth
- Faith
- Fear
- Gambling
- Gehenna
- Genesis
- god
- God's Timing
- God's Provision
- God's Will
- good works and salvation
- hades
- Heaven
- Hell
- Holiness
- holy-spirit
- Homosexuality
- Idolatry
- Intercessory Prayer
- jesus
- Marriage
- Nimrod
- Obedience
- Parenting
- Patience
- Perseverance
- Personal Holiness
- Philippians 4:13
- Prayer
- praying in Jesus' name
- Priorities
- Repentance
- Resurrection
- Salvation
- Satan
- Semiramis
- soul-winning
- spiritual warfare
- Tammuz
- tartarus
- Temptation
- Thankfulness
- Thanksgiving
- The Bible
- the indwelling Holy Spirit
- The Judgment Seat of Christ
- the mother-child religion
- the queen of heaven
- using your spiritual gift
- using your talents in serving Christ
- Vance Havner
- waiting on God
- Worship
Recent Comments
ronen.leo on The Blessing of Changing a… russellmckinney on The 10 Times Israel Tested… Doris Agbetsise on The 10 Times Israel Tested… russellmckinney on It’s Hard to Be Sti… Myron on It’s Hard to Be Sti… Disciple’s Road
My TweetsBlog Stats
- 870,916 hits
Category Archives: Pastors
Not My Typical Week
I spent this past week gathering as much information as I could about the Coronavirus in an effort to figure out how to conduct church services in a reasonably safe way. I also met with our church deacons Tuesday night … Continue reading
Posted in Adversity, Church, Church Attendance, Current Events, God's Work, Pastors, Preaching, Problems, Service
Tagged cancelling church because of the corona virus, Michael Brown quote on the corona virus, Should we have church during the corona virus?, the church being forced to become more creative, the corona virus and church
2 Comments
Having Good Spiritual Leadership Isn’t Enough
The pastor is usually the first person who gets blamed when a church takes a downturn. And, admittedly, many times the pastor is the problem. That’s just a plain fact. There are, however, two other facts that are just as … Continue reading
How Many Pastors Should a Church Have?
Our English word “pastor” translates the New Testament’s original Greek word poimen, a word that literally means “shepherd.” “Pastor,” of course, is the leadership title that is most commonly used in our American churches. The fact is, however, that the New Testament … Continue reading
Posted in Church, Deacons, Ministry, Pastors, Preaching
Tagged a board of elders verses a single pastor, Are bishops and overseers pastors?, Are elders the same as pastors?, Does the Bible teach that each church should have multiple pastors?, How many pastors should a church have?, the house churches of the New Testament, the pastors of the New Testament
Leave a comment
Why Can’t a Woman be a Pastor or a Deacon?
I realize that I’m not going to win any popularity contests with this one, but I feel led of the Lord to weigh in on the topics of women preachers and women deacons. In these days of social media, it … Continue reading
What Spiritual Gifts Does the Bible Name?
Series: “Spiritual Gifts” (post #2) To find out what spiritual gifts the Bible names, you have to consult three separate passages of scripture. The passages are Romans 12:6-8, 1 Corinthians 12:8-30, and Ephesians 4:7-16. By combining the lists from all … Continue reading
Posted in Discernment, Evangelism, Faith, Giving, God's Work, Individuality, Leadership, Mercy, Ministry, Pastors, Preaching, Series: "Spiritual Gifts", Service, Speaking in Tongues, Spiritual Gifts, Spiritual Warfare, Teaching, The Holy Spirit
Tagged a definition of each spiritual gift, a list of the spiritual gifts, the passages where the Bible talks about spiritual gifts, What spiritual gifts does the Bible name?
3 Comments
When God Doesn’t Seem to Care
How long, O Lord? Will You forget me forever? How long will you hide your face from me? How long must I wrestle with my thoughts and every day have sorrow in my heart? How long will my enemy triumph … Continue reading
Posted in Adversity, Attitude, Children, Christ's Death, Comfort, Complaining, Depression, Disappointment, Doubt, Encouragement, Faith, Fatherhood, Honesty, Parenting, Pastors, Persecution, Personal, Prayer, Problems, Suffering, Thankfulness, Trials, Trusting In God
Tagged God has been good to me, How long O Lord?, thoughts from Psalm 13, what to do when God doesn't seem to care, when you feel abandoned by God, your enemy triumphing over you
Leave a comment
A Snapshot of Our Churches in 2019
LifeWay is the publishing department of the Southern Baptist Convention. Last month they released the findings of a study that was conducted between the dates of January 14 and January 30 of 2019. 1,000 pastors of Protestant churches were called … Continue reading
Posted in Aging, Change, Church, Church Attendance, Communication, Current Events, Discernment, Evangelism, God's Word, God's Work, Ministry, Pastors, Personal, Preaching, Scripture, Sunday School, The Bible, Youth
Tagged 2019 Lifeway study about churches, 61% of churches are in decline or are plateaued, churches growing through swapping members, churches will younger pastors are growing, illustration about the need for change, recent church attendance figures
1 Comment
What Ever Happened to the Original Church of Jerusalem?
(Series: “The Early Church of Jerusalem” post #16) The church of Jerusalem, the megachurch that was the world’s first church (Acts 8:1; 11:22), was never intended to be the planet’s only church. God’s plan was always for those believers to … Continue reading
Posted in Church, Evangelism, God's Work, Ministry, Missions, Pastors, Persecution, Preaching, Series: "The Early Church of Jerusalem", The Gospel, Witnessing
Tagged christianity, Herod killing James, Herod putting Peter in prison, house churches, Jerusalem being destroyed in A.D. 70, Rome's siege of Jerusalem, the churches of the New Testament, the end of the church of Jerusalem, the famine that struck Jerusalem, the house churches of the Bible, the Jewish revolt in A.D. 66, the prophet Agabus, these who have turned the world upside down, What happened to the church of Jerusalem?
2 Comments
Is Acts 6:1-7 the First Deacon Election?
(Series: “The Early Church of Jerusalem” post #12) The first serious problem that threatened to split the early church of Jerusalem centered around what Acts 6:1 calls “the daily distribution” (N.K.J.V.). No definition is given for what this distribution was, but … Continue reading
Posted in Church, Deacons, God's Work, Ministry, Pastors, Series: "The Early Church of Jerusalem", Service
Tagged Acts 6:1-7 and deacons, christianity, Church, How many deacons should a church have?, the beginning of the office of deacon, the daily distribution in the early church, Was Philip a deacon?, Was Stephen a deacon?, What does the word deacon mean?, When was the first deacon election?
Leave a comment
The Disciple's Road 