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Category: Family Life

Advice for Young Ministers: A Conversation

May 4, 2021 Mark

Dr. Mark Adams sits down with Dr. Kevin Burr to share some experiential advice for young ministers…and really, for anyone looking to grow spiritually.

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Building Love Maps

February 15, 2021 Mark

Needing to reconnect with your partner? Working on deepening a relationship in your life? Here are some great places to start.

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Top 10 Posts of 2020

December 30, 2020 Mark

Looking back at 2020, here were the most viewed posts at Kingdom Upgrowth.

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Overcoming Negative Emotions

August 21, 2020 Mark

It’s been a hard time for all of us. Here are some things you can do to help you get through.

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A Review of Strange Rites: New Religions for a Godless World

August 9, 2020 Mark

My book review of Strange Rites: New Religions for a Godless World by Tara Isabella Burton.

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Helping Your Tribe Be Healthy

July 16, 2020 Mark

What does it actually look like for people to get healthier incrementally? How do we help dysfunctional tribes become high-functioning teams? Here are a few ideas.

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Join us for a Journey Through John!

December 10, 2019 Mark

In 2020 we’re going on a journey through John’s Gospel. We hope you’ll come, too!

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What Everyone Needs

September 19, 2019 Mark

Leaders need it. Volunteers need it. Insiders and outsiders both need it. How do we best care for the people around us?

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Wholly Redeemed How Salvation Works

Wholly Redeemed

August 19, 2019 Mark

Salvation is not about emphasizing one particular action over another. It is about God redeeming your whole person.

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Learn Spanish Christian Children’s Songs

May 1, 2019 Mark

Here is a collection of Spanish Christian Children’s songs, ideal for learning with your mission trip team if you are going to a Spanish-speaking country.

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Luke Dockery

Youth in Family Ministry with Luke Dockery

December 20, 2018 Mark

How do we help our children’s faith become their own? Luke Dockery shares about his Youth In Family Ministry model as a deliberate way to

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Bob Turner

An Interview with Bob Turner

December 10, 2018 Mark

I was thrilled to have a conversation with Bob Turner about books and trends in Christian publications. Bob serves as the Library Director at the Harding

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My Favorite Reads of 2018

My Favorite Reads of 2018

November 27, 2018 Mark

If there is anything that bothers me, it’s that I feel like I never have enough time to read. As I started compiling a list

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Enneagram Resources

Enneagram Resources

November 15, 2018 Mark

Having spent a lot of time studying the Enneagram over the last few months, I wanted to share a lot of my favorite resources in

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Stack Your Skill Sets

Stacking Your Skill Sets

November 6, 2018 Mark

4th Place Disappointment In 2016, following an extended period of injuries, setbacks and a lengthy recovery, Kara Goucher attempted her comeback for the U.S. Olympic

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Enneagram ups and downs

Enneagram Ups and Downs

October 25, 2018 Mark

The Enneagram The Enneagram is a personality system which groups people into Nine Types, partially based on their behaviors, but even more so based on

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Matt Dabbs

Having Productive Online Conversations: with Matt Dabbs

September 27, 2018 Mark

These days, talking about important subjects online is a lot like walking through a minefield. Matt Dabbs provides tools to help us with online conversations–and

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Types of Stories

Stories We Need To Tell

September 15, 2018 Mark

When I was preparing to preach about the parables of Jesus, I came across John Dominic Crossan’s book, The Dark Interval: Toward a Theology of Story. The

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Questioning Forward: In This Together

September 8, 2018 Mark

I’ve been making posts about Appreciative Inquiry, an effective method for studying an existing group of people and discerning how to implement positive change in

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Seven Mistakes Your Church Should Make

Seven Mistakes Your Church Should Make

September 5, 2018 Mark

Churches are too cautious. People who won’t change can’t grow, because growth cannot occur without something being done differently than it was before. Churches that won’t

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spontaneity and spiritual growth

Spontaneity and Spiritual Growth

July 23, 2018 Mark

My family went for a period of about 2-3 months when we played Scrabble all the time. Many evenings when homework was done, we would

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Elephant

Taming the Elephant: The Value of Meekness

May 30, 2018 Mark

I don’t think too many people in the spotlight these days will have to worry about anyone accusing them of being rational. With the news

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Way They Should Go

Promoting Our Children’s Spiritual Health

May 13, 2018 Mark

Everyone has plenty of opinions on what it means to raise up a child in the way that he or she should go. But when

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Hands

Tabitha’s Hands

May 13, 2018 Mark

If you could go back to the first century, to Joppa, there on the shore of the Mediterranean Sea, perhaps you could find a woman

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Mllennials

Millennials and Mission: A Moratorium

May 13, 2018 Mark

I’m ready to stop talking about Millennials. I couldn’t even tell you how long it’s lasted, but for years now, every week, I see at

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Kindom Upgrowth

May 13, 2018 Mark

Where there is upgrowth, something noticeable has happened. To speak of the upgrowth of national trends or economics is to speak of something readily observable

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