“Why are you misbehaving in my class? You should not act like this since your father is a pastor.” Comments like this, from the mouths of frustrated teachers, are quite common at Christian schools. But, why is it so common for pastor’s kids to misbehave? Could the...
“I’ll only go if James goes.” Jonathan, my five-year old, absolutely refused to go to children’s church alone. We were in the States and I was the guest preacher who was expected to stand up and be anointed in about five minutes. In the meantime, all the...
It was December 31, several years ago during our New Year’s Eve service. The whole congregation was passionately worshipping God, except me. I was being crushed under the weight of too much ministry responsibility. I wasn’t worshipping; I was worrying—trying to figure...
Several years ago, I was in the States eating Mexican food with an old friend who was trying to start a new church. After months of prayer and hard work, the church was getting off to a slow start. People were staying away by the thousands. As I listened to their...
I recently received a letter addressed to “Apostle Steve Murrel.” The name on the return address didn’t ring a bell. The address, some unheard of town in Florida, was as unfamiliar to me as the sender. As far as I could remember, I had never heard of the writer or...
Will leaders grow organically? When the number of disciples exploded beyond what our leaders could handle, my team and I at Victory in Manila examined our processes to figure out how to fix the gap. Chapter 5 unveils the four leadership multipliers we discovered that...
