Eight Examples of When a Pastor Leaves Too Soon

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Podcast Episode #432

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Pastors often leave a church for another opportunity too soon. Today we discuss eight reasons pastors leave too soon and how to combat the urge to jump ship too early.

Some highlights from today’s episode include:

  • Leadership brings change. Change brings conflict.
  • Be careful not to be called to a salary instead of being called to a church.
  • Personnel teams should keep an eye on staff salaries and make sure they are paid well.
  • “Ladder climbing” has fallen out of favor with Millennials.
  • If you’re not able to be satisfied while living in obscurity, you won’t be satisfied if you make it famous either.

The eight examples we cover on this episode are:

  1. We are not presuming on the call of God
  2. A modest amount of conflict
  3. Compensation issues without seeking help
  4. Yielding to the isolated troublemaker
  5. Assuming bigger is better
  6. Lack of patience (sometimes 4 to 5 years to see fruit)
  7. A short period of decline
  8. Burnout

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Some Christians and Jews Hail Embassy Move to Jerusalem as Key to a Biblical Plan

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Some Christians and Jews Hail Embassy Move to Jerusalem as Key to a Biblical Plan


Some Christians and Jews Hail Embassy Move to Jerusalem as Key to a Biblical Plan


When American and Israeli officials inaugurated the first-ever U.S. embassy in Jerusalem Monday (May 14) in a festive red, white and blue ceremony, more than 100 evangelical Christians, including former U.S. congresswoman Michele Bachmann, were on hand.


So were scores of American Jews, including Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump, many of them Orthodox.


President Trump’s December 2017 decision to move the embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem has spurred criticism from those who believe the decision will impede a broader peace settlement in the Middle East by denying Palestinian claims to the city. It has also brought fears of increased violence. (As of this writing, at least 58 Palestinian deaths have been reported along Israel’s border with Gaza in protests against the embassy’s relocation.)


But for some evangelical Christians and Orthodox Jews, the embassy’s relocation is not only a smart political move but a fulfillment of divine prophecy. 


“We see the embassy as crucial to God’s timing to bring about the revelation of the messiah,” the Rev. David Swaggerty, the leader of .Life Ministries in Columbus, Ohio, said following a joint Christian-Jewish Bible study session hosted at the Israeli parliament the day before the embassy ceremony.

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Ohio Megachurch Pumps Out Free Gas for Over 100 Drivers to Show Love of Jesus

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Ohio Megachurch Pumps Out Free Gas for Over 100 Drivers to Show Love of Jesus

(Screenshot: Facebook.com / Lock P. Beachum Jr.)Cars lineup to receive free gas paid for by Victory Christian Center’s campus in Liberty Township, Ohio on May 12, 2018.

A campus of an eight-location multiracial megachurch in Ohio celebrated its 10th anniversary by buying gas for over 100 cars on Saturday.

The Liberty Campus of Victory Christian Center, an Assemblies of God congregation that has eight campuses across Ohio and Pennsylvania, spent over $3,200 to buy 10 gallons of gas for the first 100 cars that stopped by a local BP station on Saturday morning as a way of giving thanks to a community it has served for the last decade.

Led by VCC Liberty pastor Lock P. Beachum Jr. and aided by local police, about 30 volunteers from the church manned the pumps at the gas station and blessed Youngstown-area residents by pumping fuel paid for by the church’s community outreach initiative Operation Impact.

Beachum told The Christian Post that for over an hour, he and the volunteers provided at least 112 cars with about $30.00 worth of gas each.

“I actually heard about a couple of people who cried. They were just so blown away of this act of kindness,” Beachum told CP. “Our church is in a distressed area, so [for] a number of folk just being in the situation of life that they are…

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US Embassy Jubilantly Opens in Jerusalem as 55 Are Killed in Gaza Protests

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US Embassy Jubilantly Opens in Jerusalem as 55 Are Killed in Gaza Protests

The United States opened its new embassy in Jerusalem Monday with a high-powered American presidential delegation joining Israel’s top leadership in a celebration of their countries’ friendship and the city’s history as the ancient capital of the Jewish people.

About 800 well-dressed guests packed a podium outside the former U.S. Consulate compound in southeastern Jerusalem that was rededicated as the new embassy, for the time being until a permanent site is determined.

Guests were handed red and blue baseball caps marking the occasion, the U.S. Marines presented their colors and a large video screen featured the American flag and a montage of Israeli and U.S. leaders meeting throughout the years.

For Israelis, it marked the first official recognition of their capital after 70 years. But the move infuriated Palestinians, who seek the eastern part of the city that Israel captured in the 1967 Mideast war as their future capital. Also absent were the ambassadors of many European nations that opposed the move, adhering to the stance that embassies should stay in Tel Aviv until Jerusalem’s final status is resolved.

Here’s a look at the highlights from the event:

WHAT GAZA?

The gala gathering came in the shadow of the deadliest day of violence along the Israel-Gaza border since the 2014 war, where Israeli soldiers shot and killed more than 50 Palestinians during mass protests.

The Gaza bloodshed taking place just 70 kilometers (45 miles) away seemed the furthest thing from anyone’s mind at the feel-good ceremony in Jerusalem, focused squarely on the city’s past, present and…

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Explaining the conflict in Gaza as death toll rises to 61

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Explaining the conflict in Gaza as death toll rises to 61

History was made yesterday when Israel observed its seventieth anniversary as a nation and the United States officially moved its embassy to Jerusalem. However, the day was historic from a very different perspective as well.

Palestinians mark May 15 each year as “Nakba Day” (“Nakba” means “catastrophe”). This designation refers to the fact that hundreds of thousands of Palestinians fled their homes or were displaced in the 1948 War of Independence.

In the weeks leading to yesterday’s anniversary, Hamas called for massive demonstrations against Israel and the US. According to Israeli officials, some forty thousand Palestinians took part in “violent riots” yesterday at thirteen locations along the Gaza Strip security fence.

As protesters approached the border fence hurling stones and incendiary devices, Israeli soldiers responded with live ammunition and tear gas dispersed from drones.

The resulting death toll has risen this morning to sixty-one. More than 2,700 were injured in the deadliest violence since the 2014 Gaza war. A senior Hamas official said last night that protests would continue: “This blood will keep boiling until the occupation leaves forever.”

What my Palestinian tour guide experienced

Since I wrote yesterday from Israel’s point of view, today I will overview the conflict from a Palestinian perspective. (For a larger introduction to the region, its history, and its significance, I invite you to read my Israel and the Two-State Solution on our website.)

On one of my travels to Israel, I became friends with our Palestinian Christian tour guide. He and his family lost their home in Jerusalem when Israelis took the city in 1967. He still had shrapnel in his neck from that conflict and sometimes drove past his family’s home with a mixture of bitterness and nostalgia.

In his view, the Palestinians owned the land for twenty centuries, after the Romans expelled the Jews following the Bar Kochba revolt of AD 135. He…

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Pope's Lamborghini sells for $1.23million

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Pope's Lamborghini sells for $1.23million

Pope Francis’ Lamborghini has been sold for $1.23million.

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Teens Open Heavens 15 May 2018 – Condescend

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Teens Open Heavens 15 May 2018 – Condescend

Topic: Condescend [Teens Open Heavens 15, May 2018]

Memorise: Be of the same mind one towards another. Mind not high things, but condescend to men of low estate. Be not wise in your conceits. Romans 12:6

Read: Isaiah 66:1-2 (KJV)

1 Thus saith the LORD, The heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool: where is the house that ye build unto me? and where is the place of my rest?

2 For all those things hath mine hand made, and all those things have been, saith the LORD: but to this man will I look, even to him that is poor and of a contrite spirit, and trembleth at my word.

Bible In One Year: 2 Kings 12-14, John 5:25-47

MESSAGE:

God leads by example. Before he tells you to humble yourself and serve others, he has done it time and again. Some people consider themselves too high to be reached. If you are ‘high’ and you stay up there, you will be unable to reach out to those who are low. Most of the people you are expected to know less about God and His ways, probably have never even heard about God, have little or no means of livelihood, have little or no education, et cetera. The ability to condescend to their level is humility. Do you look down on people who are less privileged than you? Do you laugh at them and make fun of their clothes? If yes then you are not being Christ-like.

You should learn not to look down on people who are less privileged. You should come to their level and help them to improve whenever there is an opportunity for that. In situations where you see people who have very little, and you have more than enough to spare, reach out to them, and give them a measure from what you have. In doing this, you will be showing the love of Christ to them, and this is greater than any sermon you can ever preach to them.

Action Point: Prayerfully, reach out to 10 people below your status and show them the love of God.

If you missed yesterday devotional, please click to read “Teen Open Heavens Daily Devotional by Pastor Adeboye’’

Hymn 13:

1. Is your life a channel of blessing?
Is the love of God flowing through you?
Are you telling the lost of the Savior?
Are you ready His service to do?

Chorus:
Make me a channel of blessing today,
Make me a channel of blessing, I pray;
My life possessing, my service blessing,
Make me a channel of blessing today.

2. Is your life a channel of blessing?
Are you burdened for those that are lost?
Have you urged upon those who are straying
The Savior who died on the cross?

3. Is your life a channel of blessing?
Is it a daily telling for Him?
Have you spoken the word of salvation
To those who are dying in sin?

4. We cannot be channels of blessing
If our lives are not free from known sin;
We will barriers be and a hindrance
To those we are trying to win.

Daily Devotional for Teen’s guide was written by Pastor E.A. Adeboye, the General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, one of the largest evangelical church in the world and also the President of Christ the Redeemer’s Ministries.

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Joyce Meyer’s Daily 15 May 2018 Devotional — God Will Help You

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Joyce Meyer’s Daily 15 May 2018 Devotional — God Will Help You

Topic: God Will Help You [Joyce Meyer’s Devotional Tuesday May 15, 2018]

The Lord will give [unyielding and impenetrable] strength to His people; the Lord will bless His people with peace. — Psalm 29:11

God has been showing me that we need to be aware of His present provisions now, and not just in the future. In Psalm 28:7, David said of God…I am helped; therefore my heart greatly rejoices, and with my song I shall thank Him and praise Him. He did not say, “I will be helped.”

Wait on God, because God’s help will strengthen you to behave in a godly way all day long if you trust in Him. Even while you wait on God to manifest His plan, your heart can greatly rejoice in His presence. Tell someone something good that God has done for you, and then watch Him move in the presence of your praise.

Prayer Starter: Father, You are the great “I am,” and I thank You for being with me…right here, right now. Help me today to recognize Your goodness and begin expecting You to show up in my life in mighty ways. In Jesus’ Name, Amen.

If you missed yesterday devotional, please click to read “Joyce Meyer Daily Devotional HERE’’ 

From Joyce Meyer’s Ministries.

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MFM Mountain Top Life Daily Devotional Tuesday, 15 May 2018 – Divine Favour

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TOPIC: Divine Favour (Mountain of Fire and Miracle Ministries Tuesday, 15 May 2018)

FIRE SCRIPTURE: SCRIPTURE: Exodus 12:35-36

MEMORY VERSE:

“For thou, LORD, wilt bless the righteous; with favour wilt thou compass him as with a shield.” – Psalms 5:12

The MESSAGE:

Divine favour simply means favour from God. This is not emanating from man at all. Favour was what the Israelites got. Favour is when the slave master is spoiled by the slave. Divine favour is when the most rejected becomes the most accepted.

A man who was a driver in a company was suddenly given a house and other accessories in the house after attending a meeting where a prophetic declaration of favour was made, which he claimed.

Favour makes a prisoner to become a prime minister as in the case of Joseph (Genesis 40:37-41). The favour of God made Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael and Azariah stand out (Daniel 1:17). And Divine favour will make you stand out as you will outshine your peers and contemporaries. Divine favour is unmerited. Divine favour is not fair. Divine favour is not worked for. God decides who He favours. Divine favour puts ahead the last and makes him the first. David the shepherd boy was forgotten and neglected but the favour of God found him out and took him from the sheepfold and set him up on the throne of Israel.

But divine favour cannot come to the sinners. As stated in our memory verse, favour surrounds the righteous. You must be born again and be in right standing with God. You must be a Bible addict and must be prayerful.

MOTIVATIONAL QUOTE:
One day of Divine favour is worth ten years of labour.

PROPHETIC WORD:
Divine Favour is your portion anywhere you go today!

PRAYER POINTS:

MORNING
1. O Lord, arise and clothe me with the garment of favour, in the name of Jesus.
2. My Father, everywhere I go, let me meet with favour, in the name of Jesus.
3. From today, let men and women, boys and girls, locals and foreigners favour me, in the name of Jesus.

EVENING
4. I refuse to labour, I enter into the realms of favour, in the name of Jesus.
5. My Father, surround me with Your favour, in the name of Jesus.
6. Favour of God, speak for me, in the name of Jesus.
7. Favour of divine positioning, locate me now by fire, in the name of Jesus.

“If you missed yesterday devotional, please click to read MFM Mountain Top Life Daily Devotional HERE 

MOUNTAIN TOP LIFE is a daily devotional by Dr. D.K Olukoya (General Overseer, Mountain of Fire and Miracle Ministries, Worldwide)

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Scientists Develop Antidote for Hangover, Test It on Drunk Mice

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Scientists Develop Antidote for Hangover, Test It on Drunk Mice

Pixabay/PhotoMIX-CompanyResearchers found a possible way to enjoy alcoholic drinks without having a hangover the next day.

There might finally be a way to enjoy alcohol without the hangover.

A research team led by Yunfeng Lu, a Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering professor at the University of California, has developed a pill that promises a quicker recovery from a problem that is all too common — drinking a bit too much.

Lu developed an antidote in the form of capsules filled with natural enzymes usually found in liver cells that help the body break down the alcohol into harmless molecules.

The team, which also includes Cheng Ji, an expert in liver diseases from Keck School of Medicine at the University of Southern California, and Lu’s graduate student Duo Xu, then developed a safe way to deliver these natural enzymes to the liver by wrapping them in a shell made with U.S. Food and Drug Administration-approved material.

They then tested the antidote on drunk mice by injecting the nanocapsules into their veins. Lu said that the enzymes successfully made their way to the circulatory system and eventually reached their destination, which is the liver. “They entered the cells and served as mini–reactors to digest alcohol,” he wrote on The Conservation.

Lu and company learned that the antidote decreased the drunk mice’s blood alcohol level by 45 percent in just four hours compared to the drunk mice that weren’t given the antidote.

The blood concentration of acetaldehyde, the highly toxic carcinogenic compound responsible for leaving the drinking person’s face red and of course the…

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