There is lots of excitement going on for Holy Week and anticipating the Easter impact our churches will make this Sunday. For weeks, you, I and thousands of pastors all over the U.S. and beyond have been planning and preparing for the best Easter Sunday ever! I want to be sure you don’t miss a special opportunity to pick up … Read More
Keep your new Easter guests coming back! Free Webinar
With Easter fast approaching (Sunday, April 20), I want to stress the importance of your church’s assimilation system. In other words, I want to help you keep more of your first-time Easter guests this year. In the first seven minutes of contact with your church, your first-time guests will know whether or not they are coming back. Think about that: … Read More
The Great Gift of Easter – A Saturday Quote
“The great gift of Easter is hope – Christian hope which makes us have that confidence in God, in his ultimate triumph, and in his goodness and love, which nothing can shake.” —Basil Hume
Last Chance to go to the Holy Land (register by April 15)
Time is quickly running out for you to join Nelson in the Holy Land next month. The final registration deadline is April 15 (that’s only a few days away). And while the clock is ticking, there is still an opportunity for you to join us on this life-changing spiritual retreat to Israel on May 22-30, 2014. As you know, this 9-DAY … Read More
Starting a Sermon Series on Easter
Since Easter Sunday’s date varies, April 20th this year, it can sneak up on you – and on the unchurched people in your community – if you aren’t careful. But with a little forward thinking and strategic planning on your part, you can work with God as he uses this singular day to draw people to himself in much larger numbers than any other time … Read More
What you want is Practice – A Saturday Quote
“What you want is practice, practice, practice. It doesn’t matter what we write (at least this is my view) at our age, so long as we write continually as well as we can. I feel that every time I write a page either of prose or of verse, with real effort, even if it’s thrown into the fire the next … Read More
Without Continual Growth – A Saturday Quote
“Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.” —Benjamin Franklin
Read Everything. – A Saturday Quote
“Read, read, read. Read everything — classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You’ll absorb it. Then write. If it’s good, you’ll find out. If it’s not, throw it out of the window.” —William Falkner
Methods – A Saturday Quote
“Methods are many, principles are few. Methods may change but principles never do.” —Dr. Elmer Towns
What Trials Teach Us – A Saturday Quote
“Trials teach is what we are; they dig up the soil, and let us see what we are made of” —Charles Spurgeon