10 Habits of Hospitality

I know that some of you are reading this and the idea of opening your home to others seems like a terrifying chore. I want you to see it as a blessed opportunity. Our open-door policy has created numerous opportunities for us to show the love of Christ to others. Our house has been a refuge for the broken and a hospital for sinners. Our home has been a counseling office and a cooking school. It has also been a play-place for kids and an emergency bathroom. But, in each of those ways, God has used our home to bless others and in so doing has blessed our family.

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Become a Better Parent Now

How is your parenting? This may be a good parenting week or one that you wish you could do all over again, but regardless of where you are in your parenting, I want you to know that you can improve. You may not be a great parent today, but you can be a better parent tomorrow.

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11 Steps to Reach the Next Generation

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On any given Sunday morning, one-third of the attenders at Malvern Hill are 18 years old or younger. We are a medium sized church on the edge of a small city. Currently, we average around 300 in worship, and you can almost guarantee that if we have 300 in worship this Sunday, 100 of them will be 18 or under. There are unique challenges that come with being a church filled with young people–primarily that those who are 18 and under do not normally tithe– but there are of course incredible blessings. Young people bring life and joy and they are the present and the future of the church.

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Preach Christ

Jesus is enough to carry and sustain the worn-out souls of your hearers. They come to the altar of God’s word week in and week out to be refreshed and encouraged. You have been given the gift of preaching for the edifying—the building up—of your local church. They come in beat-down and tired. The worries of financial strife, the struggles of wayward children, the back-biting of a secular workplace, and the thorns and thistles of sinful creation all work in a sort of unholy symphony to burden God’s image-bearers. Given the opportunity, this unholy symphony will actually drown out the siren call of Calvary.

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