Gary Stidham

FUN ANNOUNCEMENT: @PaulWorcester and I are launching a new podcast, and the first episode is live! Each monthly episode will be an interview with top college ministry practitioners...

FREE EBOOK! 3 HABITS FOR EVERYDAY EVANGELISM 📖🤓🙏🚀🌏📢💯🙌 So psyched for this resource that was just published by @NAMBEvangelism all about how to make evangelism a spiritual discipline! namb.net/resource/free-… These habits have been integral to the evangelism trainings I have led for many years and we have countless testimonies of how the Lord has used these simple practices in believers lives to help them be more intentional in living on mission. I developed these habits inspired by Colossians 4:2-6 when I graduated from college as a way to keep my zeal for evangelism white hot even in the “real world.” This resource while relevant for students, was written with a general adult audience in mind with the hope that churches and ministries will use it to equip and empower every member to live on mission as an everyday part of life. It takes about 30 minutes to read and includes discussion questions and even ongoing accountability questions so you can incorporate these habits into your discipleship relationships. Check it out and share with anyone who wants to grow in this crucial but often forgotten area of the Christian life! Join me praying that God will bless this resource beyond what we ask think of imagine. (Eph 3:20) 🙏🙏🙏

@PaulWorcester @shane_pruitt78 I want some Buffalo Wild Wings when I die.

@shane_pruitt78 Redbull gives you wings

No one gets wings when they die.

What an honor to interview the legendary Max Barnett!

A LIFE WELL LIVED 🙌🤯🙏 Was an incredible honor to interview my mentor and hero Max Barnett! For 60+ years he labored zealously to multiply disciples on college campuses and he is still doing what he can in the midst of his cancer diagnosis. He is still praying for us and wants us to send him requests! Be praying for Max during this time. I was moved to tears multiple times during this episode reflecting on his legacy of simple faith and obedience 😭 May God continue to raise up many to carry the torch that Max passed on of walking deeply with God and taking strategic risks to advance the kingdom! Check out the interview on the @CampusMNetwork podcast open.spotify.com/episode/3pAYK5…

@PaulWorcester @NAMBEvangelism @shane_pruitt78 @kevezell @NAMB_SBC @belliff @davidworcester @CampusMNetwork @SteveShadrach @_drewhumphrey_ Awesome!

PRAYER REQUEST 🙏🙏🙏 Tomorrow Tim Dowdy and I are leading a @NAMBEvangelism training for pastors and leaders from across Maryland and Delaware! My sessions will focus on how to create a culture of evangelism in Next Gen ministries and Tim will be training pastors. Then I will spend time with Justin Woods of Navy BCM and then speak for at UMD BCM It’s going to be a packed day full of opportunities to encourage and equip leaders! Please pray for supernatural energy, anointing and wisdom to make the most of every opportunity. Pray that these leaders are encouraged, equipped and inspired to reach this strategic area filled with lost people 🙏🙏🙏

@DZRishmawy "Nobody reads Josephus," but you can literally pick up a copy at Barnes and Noble 😅🤦‍♂️

So weird and suspicious that the only two sources concerned with narrating 1st Judean history have substantive, mutually-confirming overlap!? Concerning!

LAY IT ALL DOWN: THE LIFE OF JIM & ELIZABETH ELLIOT In this bonus episode of the @CampusMNetwork podcast we share a conference message I gave recently to a group of college students. Use it as a discipleship tool with your students. 🙏 open.spotify.com/episode/3jsswH…

Jesus attended several funerals, including his own. Every single time, the dead person ended up alive again. “I am the resurrection and the life. The one who believes in me will live, even though they die." - John 11:25 Happy Easter! He is risen!

@J_K_Wood Even more starkly, on the birth certificate, (I assume) the woman is listed as the mother and her own son is listed as the father. And the child is purposely separated for life from her biological mother and the woman who carried her in the womb.

She is legally her own grandmother’s daughter. That sentence exists because we built the tools before we built the character to constrain them.

@PaulWorcester @resonate_church @craigmlove @sendnetwork @NAMBEvangelism @shane_pruitt78 @SteveShadrach @johnavant @_drewhumphrey_ @belliff 🙏🙏🎉🎉

PRAYER REQUEST 🙏🙏🙏 Today I have the incredible honor of preaching for Resonate Conference to 1,000+ college students from campuses across the Pacific Northwest! I have always been a huge fan of Resonate Church and blown away by all God is doing through them. Please join me in praying that God anoints every aspect of this conference and that He uses it deeply in students lives far beyond all that we could ask or imagine. (Eph 3:20) Pray for me that I will be filled with the Spirit and able to clearly communicate all God wants and that I am able to make the most of every opportunity to encourage and build up these students and leaders. Pray for protection and that God will bring revival to these campuses. There is an underground river of revival that is bubbling up at different places across the globe right now. Let’s pray for an overwhelming flood!!! 🙏🙏🙏

@PaulWorcester @shane_pruitt78 @_drewhumphrey_ @belliff @DanielHenderson @davidworcester @JPokluda @SteveShadrach @thailam @CollegiateDOP Can't wait to listen. It's been a huge joy for me to work alongside and with other diverse ministries and churches on campus.

Theological convictions and distinctions are extremely important. I am glad to be part of a movement (SBC) that has clear beliefs and values that I believe strongly in. However, we must be careful not to throw a wet blanket on the work of God in movements outside of our tribe or even doing things differently or out of our comfort zone. Revival rarely fits in neat and tidy theological camps… Discernment is essential but cynicism may be a greater threat in some circles. We discuss this in our latest episode of the GenSend podcast namb.net/podcasts/gense… #RevivalGeneration

@PaulWorcester @CampusMNetwork "Excellence" can draw a crowd but does little to make disciples. And requires outdoing the previous week every week. "What you win them with, you keep them with." Real movements draw people into true worship - not emotion, simple and sincere faith, clear Scripture teaching.

Excellence honors God but I am worried that some churches take this value to an unhealthy extreme that stifles creativity, authenticity and allowing room for those raw moments that the Spirit moves in unexpected ways. I also believe that it may be a partial cause of burn out for some ministry leaders expected to hit a home run every time…

An ironic photo and transgender trends: check out my latest article. garystidham.com/post/transgend…

CONSECRATION: Repentance, Surrender and Personal Revival 🙏🙏🙏 It is often that last 10% of consecration that makes the difference between supernatural joy and power and constant stress and struggle. I am convinced that most followers of Christ live 80–90% committed to Christ. I know, because I lived that way for many years. Give yourself 100% to Jesus and watch Him flood your heart with supernatural joy! open.substack.com/pub/paulworces… In this third article of the 4 part series on Experiencing The Spirit-Filled Life, I discuss the importance repentance, confession of sin and surrendering all to Christ.

DESPERATION: WHERE HUNGER MEETS HUMILITY 🙏🔥🙌 In part 2 of this mini-series on experiencing the Spirit-filled life I discuss how God honors the attitude of desperation and dependence. Check it out here and let me know what you think open.substack.com/pub/paulworces… “God waits for the hungry heart. The degree of fullness in any life accords perfectly with the intensity of true desire. We have as much of God as we actually want. One great hindrance to the Spirit-filled life is the theology of complacency so widely accepted among gospel Christians today... I have often said that a Christian is as full of the Holy Spirit as he wants to be. We can beg to be filled with the Holy Spirit. We can talk about it, but until we are willing to empty ourselves, we will never have the fullness of the Holy Spirit in our lives.” A.W. Tozer

@gregstier @Zondervan Us Gen Xers memorized all our verses in the '84 😅

Is it just me or is there an underground group of pastors and preachers out there who wish @Zondervan would bring back the NIV 1984?

Had this article burning in my heart and wanted to share it somewhere! Been wanting to start a substack so I could have a place for stuff like this so no better day than today. 🚀 paulworcester.substack.com/p/resolved-an-…

@PaulWorcester Dude, so good 🙏

“To desire revival and at the same time to neglect personal prayer and devotion is to wish one way and walk another.” A.W. Tozer

@PaulWorcester @davidworcester @CampusMNetwork @shane_pruitt78 @SteveShadrach @_drewhumphrey_ @belliff @evangelistmatt Whoa, this is like Voltron where all of the cool robots combine to make a super robot! ALL the Worcesters together 👊

Epic time with family and training leaders! Traveling to speak at a youth / collegiate conference today. Pray for God to move powerfully 🙏🙏🙏