Paul Turner

WEBSITE SHOP PODCAST YOUTUBE BLOG Greetings Awesome Person, Have you ever read your resume to God? I have, but not straight through with dates from and to (I mean, I would do that If actually thought it would get me somewhere) but I have mentioned to God my experience and "all I've done for the Kingdom" and to be honest it sounds pretty pathetic. God knows my resume. He's the one that opened many of the doors so I could have a resume. Why do I do this? Probably desperation and fear, but it's...

WEBSITE SHOP PODCAST YOUTUBE BLOG Greetings Awesome Person, Is there anything you'd rather have than the real thing? Artificial flowers? Artificial crab? Artificial legs? Artificial church? Real is better. Am I right? It's possible for the real things in my life to be replaced with artificial (made or produced by human beings rather than occurring naturally, especially as a copy of something natural.) things. I have to stand guard. Paul warned the Romans about becoming artificial worshippers,...

WEBSITE SHOP PODCAST YOUTUBE BLOG Greetings Awesome Person, Has accountability become a dirty word? I used to think it was. Accountability was code, in my mind, for "you don't trust me" "you're just keeping tabs on me" "you're looking over my shoulder" Real accountability is different, if the heart of the person has your best interest in mind. Real accountability means a place to be honest, a place to learn and a place to show your work and ask, "How does this look?" "Failing to hold someone...

WEBSITE SHOP PODCAST YOUTUBE BLOG Greetings Awesome Person, I recently read an article that talked about magpies and their penchant for collecting shiny things and sticking them in their nest, never to be used again. The author makes the comparison of how humans, like magpies, collect things but never use them. This is the quote that stuck out to me and it may resonate with you too, As Christians and Pastors, I would change the last line to, "The clarity we're after is through doing" Youth...

WEBSITE SHOP PODCAST YOUTUBE BLOG Greetings Awesome Person, I'm at camp right now as you're reading this. Before I left, I handed out this prayer list to our congregation. Here are 7 things I asked them to be praying for: Speaker/Message Pray for God's anointing on the speaker, that God's word will be front and center and the gospel will be preached. Safety From the drive to camp, to all the activities and the drive home, pray for angels to guard us and our vehicles. Worship Band Pray for a...

WEBSITE SHOP PODCAST YOUTUBE BLOG Greetings Awesome Person, The world is unsafe. It always has been. Before there laws, people did what they wanted. Before there were medicines, there were plagues. We've been on the edge of blowing everything up since Hiroshima. I am part of generation that did nuclear bomb drills in school, and you know what they had us do? Get under the table. A lot of good that would have done. To me, the ocean is unsafe. I was once caught in a rip tide and almost taken...

WEBSITE SHOP PODCAST YOUTUBE BLOG Hey Awesome Person, ...we need to talk to our students about what's happening in our world. To this, I have attached a free discussion guide and prayer resource to help you and your leaders walk with students and parents during these uncertain times. With so much talk about war and global conflict, teens are feeling the weight—and often don’t have the words or space to process it biblically. This short guide includes: Open-ended discussion questions for...

WEBSITE SHOP PODCAST YOUTUBE BLOG Greetings Awesome Person, A few months ago, I did an interview with Raymond Chang, author of Future Focused Church and I asked him about the tipping points (he calls them check points) for churches in order for change to occur and this was his answer, Yeah, so these are not comprehensive, but to your point, we do, based on scripture and research and assessing the reality of a church's context, that there are three checkpoints that churches should consider...

WEBSITE SHOP PODCAST YOUTUBE BLOG Greetings Awesome Person, Like one who grabs a stray dog by the earsis someone who rushes into a quarrel not their own. Proverbs 26:17 This is just a friendly reminder. Stay in your lane when it comes to ministry. Stay out of everyone else's business if it does not concern you. Stay focused on your mission not every else's drama on or off line. Save your energy and put it into your family and your students. Hope your summer is off to a great start! Paul P.S....