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Enrichment
The First Decade

Every issue (Fall 1995- Fall 2005) on 3 CDs.



Order Back Issues Online


Conflict Management
Two volume set now available.


Managing the Local Church/Leadership CD.


Order Paraclete CD
Includes all 29 years of the now out-of-print Paraclete magazine. An excellent source of Pentecostal themes and issues. Contains articles on theological topics concerning the work and ministry of the Holy Spirit. An indispensable source of sermon and Bible study material with a fully searchable subject/author index.


Good News Filing System
Advance/Pulpit CDs
Long out of print but fondly remembered, Advance and Pulpit magazines blessed thousands of ministers. Now the entire Advance/Pulpit archive--nearly 40 years of information, inspiration, helps, and history--is available to you on separate CDs.


Table of Contents

How To Keep the Ministry
From Killing Your Marriage

Have a realistic perception. I am:

  • an ordinary person (John 6:1–13, NIV).
  • a capable person (Philippians 4:13, Amplified).
  • a secure person (Jeremiah 17:5–8).

Ask yourself the right questions:

  • Do I know when to say yes?
  • Do I know when to say no?
  • Whose voice am I listening to, God’s or man’s?
  • Can I accept criticism, both professional and personal?

Recheck your life’s purpose:

  • Who am I trying to please?
    "So we make it our goal to please him" (2 Corinthians 5:9, NIV).

Anticipate difficult ministry experiences:

  • Keep a Kingdom perspective.
    "You intended to harm me, but God intended it for good to accomplish what is now being done, the saving of many lives" (Genesis 50:20, NIV).

Wayde I. Goodall, Winston-Salem, North Carolina