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CHAPTER 12 Do Not Lose Heart 

Over the last twenty years or so, I have met many people in ministry who are discouraged. On numerous occasions people have come to one of our seminars or training events really needing to be encouraged and strengthened to persevere through hard times.

I remember specifically one couple sharing their pain. The wife shared verbally, while the husband just shook with emotion, speechless. The pain in...

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CHAPTER 11 Live by Faith 

Certainly one of the critical moments in our Lord’s earthly life was the time in Gethsemane before His arrest and all the events of His passion.

Despite the presence of the disciples, the Son of God (in a very real sense) was alone with His Father in moments of agony and surrender. The Lord was “troubled and deeply distressed,” and He said that His “soul [was] exceedingly sorrowful,...

As mentioned in our Wednesday eBroadcast this week,  here is a sermon outline by Dr. Stephen Olford featuring Matthew 4:23-5:2.

NOTE: this sermon outline (and the previously shared sermon outlines) may also be downloaded in PDF format by subscribers to the free Stephen Olford Collection on this website.

If an outline is to be used in full, then it would be appropriate and honest to “give credit” and to say in the simplest of...

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CHAPTER 10 Multiplying Yourself 

Have you ever received a boxed product that had a little slip of paper or sticker inside with a name or number on it? I have. The name or number represented the person responsible for the inspection of the item or product sent. In short, that name or number indicated that the item was indeed “send-able.” Someone had inspected the item and authorized that it be sent out.

In Philippians...

As mentioned in our Wednesday eBroadcast this week,  here is a sermon outline by Dr. Stephen Olford featuring Matthew 4:23-5:2.

NOTE: this sermon outline (and the previously shared sermon outlines) may also be downloaded in PDF format by subscribers to the free Stephen Olford Collection on this website.

If an outline is to be used in full, then it would be appropriate and honest to “give credit” and to say in the simplest of...

As mentioned in our Wednesday eBroadcast this week,  here is a sermon outline by Dr. Stephen Olford featuring Hebrews 13:1-9.

NOTE: this sermon outline (and the previously shared sermon outlines) may also be downloaded in PDF format by subscribers to the free Stephen Olford Collection on this website.

If an outline is to be used in full, then it would be appropriate and honest to “give credit” and to say in the simplest of ways that...

Part Two: Responsibilities to Fulfill 

CHAPTER 9 Praying for Others 

I suppose it is possible to be a gifted leader, generally speaking, without a vital prayer life. But in the life of the Christian leader, the role of prayer cannot be overestimated. It is not possible to be a faithful Christian, much less a Christian leader, without prayer.

The Old Testament, of course, is full of examples of fervent and effectual prayer, especially voiced by chosen leaders, whether...

Part Two: Responsibilities to Fulfill 

CHAPTER 8 Persevering in the Will of God 

After the great and glorious years of David and Solomon, after the divided kingdom period, after the two exiles of the Northern and Southern Kingdoms due to sin and disloyalty, after the return of many of God’s people to Jerusalem and the surrounding country—when Israel was still under foreign control—something monumental happened in Sushan, Persia.

While serving as...

Part Two: Responsibilities to Fulfill 

CHAPTER 7 Pursuing Right Relationships 

It is the purpose of God to bring us into right relationship with Himself, and to form a community of believers who are in right relationship with one another. Relationships are not just necessary to accomplish certain mutual goals; right relationships are one of the primary goals of God in the life of the church. Therefore, right relationships must be a primary goal for the Christian leader.

You...

As mentioned in my Wednesday eBroadcast,  here are this week's sermon outlines by Dr. Stephen Olford.

NOTE: these sermon outlines (and the previously shared sermon outlines) may also be downloaded in PDF format by subscribers to the free Stephen Olford Collection on this website.

If an outline is to be used in full, then it would be appropriate and honest to “give credit” and to say in the simplest...