A very merry Christmas from TJ, Joe, and Joshua! We will see you in January, 2023!

In this episode we discuss...

• what we can find out about rural churches with rural reasearcher Dr. Jeff Clark.
  • Dr. Clark will answer a number of questions surrounding the rural church landscape, while giving insight and helpful encouragement to rural pastors and churchgoers alike!
  • Find more info about Dr. Clark here.

Stuff Rural Pastors Can Use Review:

• No review today.

Our Quote of the Day:

• No Quote today.

In this episode we discuss...

• whether or not a Christmas eve service can be redeemed as  worship service without using gimmicks to get and retain guests.
  • Pew Research: search terms or churches spike around Christmas and Easter
  • 3 out of 5 Americans say they plan to include church in their holiday plans
  • Christmas Eve should be a WORSHIP service
  • But we can also think carefully of how to care for guests and of course preach the gospel

Stuff Rural Pastors Can Use Review:

• Looking for a quality pair of headphones for half the cost of AirPods? Raycon Global has your answer!

Our Quote of the Day:

• "I wonder if there was ever a time when true spiritual worship was at a lower ebb. To great sections of the church, the art of worship has been lost entirely, and in its place has come that strange and foreign thing called the "program." This word has been borrowed from the stage and applied with sad wisdom to the public service which now passes for worship among us."  - A.W. Tozer

In this episode we discuss...

• the value of rural ministry from a Biblical theology of rural ministry.
  • Consider the Tower of Babel in Genesis 11.
  • We must not STOP ministering in cities, leaving rural behind. God's glory demands that we bear His image and have dominion in ALL places.

Stuff Rural Pastors Can Use Review:

• Do you have a junk drawer? Consider a living room junk basket instead! (Nice one TJ...)

Our Quote of the Day:

• "In our first paradise in Eden there was a way to go out...but no way to go in again. But as for the heavenly paradise, there is a way to go in...but not way to go out."  - Richard Baxter

In this episode we discuss...

• mutual support between churches in different locations with special guests Pastor Ed Moore and Pastor Dave Theobald.
  • Dave and Ed will answer questions like:
    • How do this partnership between your churches begin?
    • What kind of fruit has come from this relationship?
    • Is there anything challenging about a rural church and an urban church working together?
    • What are the benefits for the pastors? 
    • What are the benefits for the congregation?
  • Find Ed at https://www.ns-bc.org/pastors-and-staff.
• Find Dave at https://www.gracebcdansville.org/users/david-theobald--5.

Stuff Rural Pastors Can Use Review:

• No review today.

Our Quote of the Day:

• No quote today.

In this episode we discuss...

• a Biblical theology of rural ministry.
  • Found in the creation mandate in Genesis 1:26-28
  • Implication: God owns this whole thing and intends to have his image and his dominion spread into every nook and cranny of the planet! 

Stuff Rural Pastors Can Use Review:

• Need a sleek new mug to enjoy your favorite hot drink? Consider grabbing a CUSTOM mug from our friend and past guest, Kyle Horton at Reformed Pottery.

Our Quote of the Day:

• "Sincere endeavors to do God's service is our whole work, but the success of these endeavors is God's work."  - Stephen Marshall

In this episode we discuss...

• how to be prepared for anything with our good friend David!

Stuff Rural Pastors Can Use Review:

• Interested in survival tools for everyday use? Check out David's Tiny Survival line!
• Use code RPT50 on the bundle of Tiny Survival Guide and Tiny First Aid God for 50% off!

Our Quote of the Day:

• "There is not a square inch in the whole domain of our human existence over which Christ, who is Sovereign over all, does not cry, Mine!" -  Abraham Kuyper
• "When indeed it is in God we live, and move, and have our being. We cannot draw a breath without his help."  - Jonathan Edwards

In this episode we discuss...

• going bi-vocational to better serve the rural church.

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Stuff Rural Pastors Can Use Review:

• Need new beard oil? Check out Kyle's at Reformer's Beard Co.

Our Quote of the Day:

• "Your heart is not the compass that Christ saileth by."  -  Samuel Rutherford

In this episode we discuss...

• pastoral internships with Zeke, Trevor, and Joshua!
  • Why do a pastoral internship?
    • Purpose: To help young men discern if they are called to pastoral ministry in the future.
    • To grow in Character, Conviction, and Competency.
  • Why host a pastoral internship?
  • Is Seminary a bad thing?
  • How might this experience change how you love the church after you’re done here?
• Reach Joshua:
  • [email protected]

Stuff Rural Pastors Can Use Review:

• Concerned about your backpack getting wet? Consider getting a backpack cover!

Our Quote of the Day:

• We take men who are in the church out of the church in order to send them back into the church to do ministry for the church. Is anybody else confused?  - Dave Harvey, "Am I Called?"

CONTACT

Call and leave a message at (570) 724-3741

Email: [email protected]

Website: http://ruralpastorstalk.buzzsprout.com/

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In this episode we discuss...

• why a megachurch might not be the best goal for you with special return guest Denny Dillman.
  • Why would you let go of serving in a mega church to go full time in rural ministry?
  • What benefit does the rural church you serve now have over the bigger church you used to?
  • With concerns in our culture and world, how can rural pastors serve more faithfully?
• Reach Denny:
  • [email protected]

Stuff Rural Pastors Can Use Review:

• Need to spruce up your cutting board? Consider using Howard's Mineral Oil and Wax.

Our Quote of the Day:

• [Death] is not only an enemy, but a reconciled friend; for he doth that which no friend in the world can do. It ends all our misery, and is the inlet into all happiness for eternity. And whatsoever it strips us of here, it giveth us advantage of better in another world. It cuts off our pleasures, and profits, and company, and callings here; but what is that to our blessed change afterward, to our praying of God forever, to the company of blessed souls, and the profits, and pleasures at the right hand of God for evermore? And therefore it is not only conquered, but to shew the excellency of [Jesus’] power, he hath made it a friend of an enemy, and the best friend in the world.  - Richard Sibbes, "The Glorious Feast of the Gospel"

CONTACT

Call and leave a message at (570) 724-3741

Email: [email protected]

Website: http://ruralpastorstalk.buzzsprout.com/

SOCIAL MEDIA

Facebook: http://facebook.com/ruralpastorstalk

Twitter: @ruralpastors

LISTEN

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