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encouragement

A collection of 8 posts

relationships

What is encouragement?

September 05, 2018

Everyone wants to be encouraging. No one wants to be discouraging. Which isn't to say that all of us are very good at it. The place to start (or restart) seems to be

Jared Olivetti Jared Olivetti
encouragement

Romans 16, A Model of Encouragement

September 06, 2017

Everyone loves to be encouraged and praised and valued. We all know instinctively that "Anxiety in a man's heart weighs him down, but a good work makes him glad." (Pro. 12:

Jared Olivetti Jared Olivetti
encouragement

A Culture of Encouragement

October 19, 2016

Pastoral burnout is a difficult issue to address - partially because it combines the hard data of how many pastors leave the vocation on a regular basis with the "soft data"

Jared Olivetti Jared Olivetti
encouragement

For the success of others

January 20, 2016

If you've been following this blog, you know by now that one of our dearest friends and mentors, Dave Long, recently died. Like Barry, I've been trying to not only grieve but to

Jared Olivetti Jared Olivetti
Barnabas

Raising Up Encouragers

January 13, 2016

Three days ago, I remembered my friend and mentor Dave Long who has just passed into glory. He was a great encourager. When I was in college, he had our Men-In-Training group do

James Faris James Faris
encouragement

"Not In Our House!!"

April 08, 2015

Have you ever tried to resist the inevitable?  I do this whenever I sit down to eat.  No matter how much I try to avoid it, my superlative skills in unintentionally creating social

Rut Etheridge III Rut Etheridge III
Christian growth

Blind Expectations

February 04, 2015

Last month, NPR's This American Life published an episode entitled "Batman." In this case Batman was not the caped crusader of Gotham, but Daniel Kish, a blind man who learned very

Jared Olivetti Jared Olivetti
Discipleship

"But what about him?!"

September 13, 2013

Have you ever had a burden so heavy on your heart, a duty you knew you had to perform, that its weight altered your view of the rest of life and of those

Rut Etheridge III Rut Etheridge III
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