by John Avant | Apr 28, 2023 | Humility, Pastors & Leaders Content, Presidents Column, Say Yes to God, Six Responses to God
Last month, I told you that I’m going to write about how a local church can join the current revival movement among students. At Life Action, we have identified six biblical responses to God, which seem to always be precursors to local church revival. So today, here...
by Bill Elliff | Apr 14, 2021 | Church Leadership, Pastors & Leaders Content
Then Miriam and Aaron spoke against Moses because of the Cushite woman whom he had married (for he had married a Cushite woman); and they said, “Has the LORD indeed spoken only through Moses? Has He not spoken through us as well?” And the LORD heard it. (Now the man...
by Bill Elliff | Mar 18, 2021 | Church Leadership, Pastors & Leaders Content
How We Can Go from Sleep-Preventing Fear to Restful Faith in an Instant I awoke in fear this morning. So much ahead, so much at stake at our church. As a leader, if you are going to worry, the places where the greatest FAITH is needed are always the places where the...
by Bill Elliff | Jan 7, 2021 | Church Leadership, Pastors & Leaders Content
As a leader, the greatest way to help others to a revived life is to live there yourself. This does not happen automatically. In fact, the pull of the world, flesh, and devil is so strong that we can easily slide into sin and find ourselves in deep need of personal...
by Bill Elliff | Oct 2, 2020 | Church Leadership, Pastors & Leaders Content
Everything flows from the presence of the Lord. Everything. If you have Him, you have everything you need. Without Him—His life, presence, provision, and power—you have nothing of importance. Our greatest concern as pastors should be simply this: Are we personally...
by Bill Elliff | Sep 3, 2020 | Church Leadership, Pastors & Leaders Content
In His sovereignty, God has ordained preaching as a primary means of transforming lives. He has graciously given us creation, His Word, and most dramatically, Himself, in the person of His Son, so that we might know Him. By these three means God sufficiently reveals...