The Main Things Are The Plain Things

by Jeff Tunnell www.bigbearchristiancenter.org One of the privileges in my life was meeting with Armin Gesswein.  He worked in the Norway revivals during 1937-38, founded Revival Prayer Fellowship in 1940, worked with Charles Fuller in 1945 and the Billy Graham...

No Glory, No Control, and No Empires

I’ve spent the last week in Hong Kong at the CCMN conference. CCMN stands for Cell Church Mission Network. Ben Wong, the founder of Shepherd Community   Grace Church (a cell church of 1700 members in Hong Kong), sensed God was showing him to freely share...

Making new “guests”

by Mario Vega Common sense tells us that a guest can not be “made.” People are simply there, and you either invite them or don’t invite them to a cell meeting. However, in Elim we emphasize to our leaders that guests are not just there; we have to make...

Lend Me Your Hands

by Jeff Tunnell www.bigbearchristiancenter.org We believe in God, that He is on His throne and that prayer changes things.  I humbly request our blog readers to pause, lend me your lifted hands, and make requests for the further strengthening of our own Joel Comiskey,...

Transitions

by Rob Campbell www.cypresscreekchurch.com After you read Joel’s new book, Planting Churches That Reproduce, consider picking up a copy of Transitions:  Making Sense of Life’s Changes by William Bridges.  Here’s why I suggest you read this book.  It...