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Author: Chad Brooks

Threshing Floor Podcast 053: 2015 In Review

In this episode of The Threshing Floor, our hosts sit down and talk about 2015. They share their favorite music and movies and then get into some more serious questions. They speak about what they are looking forward to, how they feel God leading them in 2016 and what ministry and leadership will be.

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Why Plant Churches?

One of the first questions I am asked when people hear about my appointment to plant a church is “…isn’t there already a Methodist church in Sterlington?“ Yep. There is. “Then why start a new one?”

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A Theology of Productivity

Chad Brooks, host of the Productive Pastor podcast, challenges us to move past our culture’s values of production of consumption and into a theology of productivity that establishes us within God’s call for our lives and allows for a holistic observance of the Sabbath.

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5 Ways to be a Productive Pastor

Is there such a thing as a theology of time management? Based on Paul’s words in Ephesians 5:16, Pastor Chad Brooks sure thinks so. Founder and host of the Productive Pastor podcast, here he shares 5 ways to become more productive in your ministry life.

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5 Tips for Surviving Annual Conference

The Annual Meeting serves as a business meeting, rally cry and general big vision session for each region of United Methodists. In this article, Chad Brooks shares 5 tips to having a positive experience each year.

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Threshing Floor Podcast 008: Why We Are Wesleyan

The Threshing Floor podcast is terribly excited to jump into 2014. Our first full episode with Seedbed centers around a conversation about why the hosts are Wesleyan. All three grew up outside of, but influenced by, a Wesleyan theological framework. We found out almost all of our reasons center around worship, experience, holiness and grace.

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Reclaiming Revelation in the Year the World Will End

There have been predictions that 2012 is the year the world will end. The return of Jesus is the hope of the Church and no book deals this truth more expansively than the book of Revelation. We’ll share with you two ways that the Church can reclaim Revelation.

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