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Use Your Pain to Help Others This Christmas

The Christmas season can be one of the most painful periods of the year for many people. Sure, it’s full …

Nine Reasons Easter—and Other Big Days—Can Drive Church Growth

When I look back at the early growth of Saddleback, three days stick out: Christmas, Easter, and Mother’s Day. We …

4 Steps to Managing Holiday Stress

Although the holiday season is one of the happiest seasons of the year, it can still be stressful—particularly for those …

7 Christmas Sermon Ideas That Engage the Unchurched

Like many of you, I have struggled to prepare Christmas sermons that are faithful to Scripture and yet engaging to …

5 Ideas for Your New Year’s Sermon

After almost 40 years at Saddleback, I know how tough it can be to come up with a holiday sermon. …

Finding a Rhythm and Raising the Energy Level in Your Leaders

The quickest way to destroy a team is to burn them out. And you don’t have to look around the field …

Three Things to Remember This Christmas

At Saddleback Church, holidays are a time to celebrate the birth of Jesus and to reflect on God’s infinite love, which …

What’s So Special About Christmas?

When man landed on the moon, that was big news. It was almost as if the whole world stopped to …

Quick Study: Be Thankful In Tough Times

“Always be full of joy in the Lord. I say it again—rejoice!” (Philippians 4:4 NLT) When the Apostle Paul says, …

Plan for Growth During the Christmas Holidays

One of the secrets of growth at Saddleback Church is that we use special days as an evangelism tool and to keep …

How Your Church Can PASTOR Your Guests This Christmas

If the two times of the year that guests typically show up for a weekend church service are Easter and …

Visitors Expect to Hear the Bible

Making your Christmas worship services comfortable and understandable for the unchurched doesn’t mean changing your theology. It means changing the …

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