We are continuing our series on spiritual battle this week by talking about Holy Spirit. Acts 1:1-8 (NIV)1 In my former book, Theophilus, I wrote about all that Jesus began to do and to teach 2 until the day he was taken up to heaven, after giving instructions through the Holy Spirit to the apostles…
As we continue on in our series on spiritual battle we will be looking at the arrival of Jesus. John 1:1-14 (NIV)1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 He was with God in the beginning. 3 Through him all things were made; without…
We are continuing our series on Spiritual Battle by looking at the events surrounding the Tower of Babel. As we saw when we looked at the events of the flood, God wanted Noah’s descendants to multiply and spread out over the whole earth after the flood. Instead, they choose to do their own thing and…
So far in our discussion on Spiritual Battle we are calling ‘The Fight’ we have looked at cosmology, cosmic temple, imagers, elohim, free will and the Fall. Now, let’s look into what is going on at the flood. Genesis 6:1-4 (NIV)1 When men began to increase in number on the earth and daughters were born…
Last week we talked about the elohim and about free will as we continued our look at spiritual battle. This week we will be looking into what happened at the fall in the garden of Eden. The Garden of Eden The Garden of Eden was a type of cosmic temple. A place where heaven and…
In the first part of our series on spiritual battle we introduced the ideas of cosmology, cosmic temple, imagers, and elohim. This week we are going a little deeper on who the elohim are and we will also begin the discussion on why there is evil in the world. More on the elohim The word…
This week we are going to start laying the foundation for our new series we are calling ‘The Fight’, in which we will be looking at spiritual battle. We are going to introduce some terms and some ideas that we will need to have as we dig into this series. The four ideas for this…
Back in March 0f 2022 we decided to build and track the development of a new website that we called “Church Consultant”. As a Church Encourager that provides Church Consulting it is important to understand how websites work in order to help churches with their digital platform. We walked through the process of finding and…
We are tracking the progress of our church consultant website to help shed some insight on the process of building a website for a church or ministry and trying to get that website to show up on page 1 of a Google search. We put together a very simple beginning website at churchconsultant.org using WordPress….
Hopefully at this point you have a domain name, you have a web host, and you have WordPress installed. If all that is true then you should have a site that looks something like our new church consultant website below: If you have never worked with WordPress before I want to encourage you to watch…
I have been wanting to write a series of articles about websites. As I was thinking of different ways to make it interesting I landed on the idea of creating a website for a specific purpose and then tracking its progress in the articles. With this is mind I am going to catalog the journey…
This is the eighth article in a series about church consulting here on Church Encourager. After we have acquired some information about the church and about the surrounding community we try to come up with an effective plan to ‘reach out’. Defining Outreach What do we mean by ‘Outreach’? Outreach is an effort by individuals…