How Big is Your God?

How Big is Your God?

1/28/23 by Larry Barker Is God bigger to you than people, challenges, circumstances, and even past failures?  2 Peter 1:3 says, “His divine power has given us everything required for life and godliness through the knowledge of Him who...
When You Fast

When You Fast

1/23/23 by Larry Barker Jesus was asked in Matthew 9:14-15  why He and His disciples did not fast like the Pharisees and others.  He responded, “The time will come when the groom will be taken from them, and then they will fast.”  Jesus let them know...
Moving Beyond The Status Quo

Moving Beyond The Status Quo

1/16/23 by Larry Barker What is your church’s goal and vision?  How will you measure “success?”  Here is something to think about when it comes to goals, “Write the goal in concrete and the plan in sand!”  Status quo is defined as, “The existing state...
Ministry Adjustments

Ministry Adjustments

1/8/23 by Larry Barker All living things, including your church progress through predictable stages of growth and decline.  Churches are living things.  The Bible calls the church a body.  Colossians 2:19 says, “He doesn’t hold on to the head, from whom...