The Gift of Helps (Serving)

Created on September 19th, 2013

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Articles and resources to assist you in growing your top spiritual gifts as revealed by the Spiritual Gifts Inventory, based on the study, Serving from the Heart.

How to Teach with Authority

How to Teach with Authority

By Shane Raynor
There was something about the way Jesus taught that was different from the way other teachers did it at the time. In the Gospel of Mark, when Jesus went to the synagogue in… read more
Serving with Our Talents and Resources

Serving with Our Talents and Resources

By Carol Cartmill
Every person is born with natural talents, whether for athletics, music, arithmetic, mechanics, or something else altogether. Talents are those abilities that seem to “come… read more
Lead Serve Love: Inspiration for Leaders

Lead Serve Love: Inspiration for Leaders

By Gregory Lang
In John 13:1-17, we read of Jesus, Son of God and Savior of the world, kneeling down on the very last night of his life to wash the dust from the feet of his disciples. What does… read more
Forty Days of Fruitful Living

Forty Days of Fruitful Living

By Bishop Robert Schnase
Based on Five Practices of Fruitful Living, Forty Days of Fruitful Living guides the individual or small group through daily readings designed to inspire and encourage. Perfect…
Second fiddle

Second fiddle

By Drew J. Gunnells Jr.
Luke 3:7-18 I read sometime ago that Leonard Bernstein, director of the Philharmonic Orchestra for many years, was once asked what was the hardest instrument in the orchestra to… read more

Dinner Delivery

Dinner Delivery

By Lynn Beach
A few years ago our men’s group wanted to do something special on Thanksgiving. They figured that they could cook up a meal and take it out to people they knew whose… read more
The Art of the Coffee Hour

The Art of the Coffee Hour

By Donna Schaper
Incarnationalists, like me, love the way the holy occupies the ordinary. We are most excited at Christmas time when God becomes human, the holy becomes fleshy, eternity becomes… read more

Half the Church

Half the Church

By Carolyn Custis James
A Q&A with Carolyn Custis James about women in the Bible, leadership, marriage, and her new book, Half the Church: Recapturing God’s Global Vision for Women. As the… read more
You Are Already Praying

You Are Already Praying

By Cathy H. George
In its ancient, monastic form, prayer was what a monk or nun did in chapel—and when they set out from chapel, their prayer continued in the office, study, field, classroom… read more
Journey 101: Serving God Participant Guide

Journey 101: Serving God Participant Guide

By multiple authors
Understand the biblical context for service that will enable you to share your time and spiritual gifts with others. Journey 101 Serving God is one component of Journey 101:…