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Check out the Mar.Apr. 2013 Digital Issue of Preaching

This issue of Preaching magazine focuses on Preaching to those who suffer, as well as contains insightful articles and regular columns dealing with leadership and more. Check it out here.

Tips for Top Leaders

In a recent article for ChurchCentral.com. Mark Batterson suggests 17 tips for high-impact leaders. Here are three of them:

Be Yourself
Don't try to be who you're not. I'm not trying to be a pastor anymore. I'm trying to be myself. I'm certainly trying to grow in maturity and gifting, but I'm not worried about who I'm not. Abraham Lincoln said, "You can please all of the people some of the time, some of the people all of the time, but you can't please all the people all of the time." Uniformity isn't the goal—unity is. That also doesn't mean unanimous. According to the categorization of adopters, 16 percent of the people you lead will be resisters. It doesn't matter if you come down with stone tablets from Mount Sinai. Even Jesus lost one of His disciples. (Click here to continue reading.)

Get This New Book—from the Pages of Preaching Magazine: Fools and Foolishness

Download this new 115-page book now and enjoy great peachers, great sermons and great illustrations from the pages of Preaching Magazine. This content-rich resource includes:

Great Preachers
Andy  Stanley: "Preaching Without Fear"
Rick Warren: "40 Days in the Word"
Max Lucado: "Preaching on Life"
Jim Cymbala: "Peaching and the Holy Spirit"

Great Sermons
Robert Smith Jr: "What's Forever For?"
Stuart Briscoe: "The Fruits of Evangelism"
Calvin Miller: "90 Percent of all Lepers"
C.H. Spurgeon: "No Room for Christ in the Inn"

Great Illustrations
Adoption
Anger
Assurance
Atonement
Faith
Forgiveness & Bitterness
God's Protection
Holy Spirit
Marriage
Sanctification
Sex
The Tongue

Check Out the Sept.-Oct 2012 Digital Edition of Preaching Magazine

Enjoy features such as "Creating the Bridge: An Interview with John R.W. Stott," "The Preacher as Culture Maker: Creating a Church Culture Through Sermons" by Matthew D. Kim, "Preaching and Pornography" by Sam Serio, "Stay the Course" by Ben Mandrell, "Let It Start with Me!" by Kevin Shrum; sermons by Max Lucado and David Howard Jr.; regular columns by Stan Toler and R. Leslie Holmes; and much more. Don't miss it!

Illustration: Persistence, Self-Control 

While persistence is not one of the fruit of the Spirit listed in Galatians 5:22, self-control is; and it is very much like persistence when it comes to choosing between abandoning a task or seeing it through to its completion.

Archibald J. Cronin was a Scottish physician who wanted to be a novelist. Born in 1896, he was awarded a scholarship in 1914 to study medicine at the University of Glasgow. World War I interrupted his studies, however, and he served as a Royal Navy surgeon before completing his medical degree in 1919. In 1924 he was appointed Medical Inspector of Mines for Great Britain, and in subsequent years his research and reports on the correlation between coal dust inhalation and pulmonary disease won him both high honors and the admiration of colleagues in medicine around the world. (Click here to continue reading.)

Illustration: Optimism  

Dad went to see his son's Little League game, but when he arrived the found the score was already 18 to 0, favoring the other team. As he sat down behind the bench on the first-base line, he spotted his son in the bullpen and went over to speak to him.

Hang in there, son," he said. "Don't get discouraged." (Click here to continue reading.)

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