Avoiding a program-based mentality in a church with vision By Steve Prokopchak Vision seems to be an operative term these days. Unfortunately, an important and consuming vision also can become just another program that needs to be propped up and financed. When vision becomes stale, members become disinterested in maintaining the vision. Even the best [...]
Find yourself side by side, holding hands, bringing your requests to your Creator. By Steve and Mary Prokopchak Mary and I have discovered what we believe to be the most intimate thing we can participate in within our marriage. We have determined that it is far more intimate than sexuality. We have taught for years [...]
Refocusing your life for a healthy future By Steve Prokopchak After some friends of mine completed a prescribed sabbatical, the wife said, “We needed to get away, to detach. . . . No church leadership, no business, no email, and no evening meetings. We needed counseling for our marriage and ourselves. We needed some [...]
Have you ever felt like giving up praying for someone? Let this story encourage you to keep praying! By Steve Prokopchak You need to persevere so that when you have done the will of God, you will receive what he has promised (Hebrews 10:36). Dave, Greg, Snowy, and Mike were my closest friends throughout high [...]
The Bible, inspired by God, reveals His heart to us By Steve Prokopchak As kids, many of us had a “Holy Bible” sitting somewhere in our home. It either had a prominent place or an obscure place. It might have been read regularly or never. It was either a source of comfort, direction, and [...]
Think about what people are doing on Facebook today. They’re . . . building an image and identity for themselves, which in a sense is their brand. —Mark Zuckerberg Who has deceived thee as oft as thyself? —Benjamin Franklin There is plenty of security in a jail cell, but I have never heard of [...]
God's design for healing emotional wounds By Steve Prokopchak When we suffer a deep physical wound, we are rushed off to the emergency room to have that wound receive necessary and immediate attention. It gets cleaned, anesthetized, and sewn up from the inside out so the healing process can begin. We are administered antibiotics [...]
Each one of us in on a mistake-filled journey here on earth. Can we maintain integrity? By Steve Prokopchak As I was walking around in an old “five and dime” store as a child, I watched a gentleman remove the price tag from one sweatshirt and place it on another so that he would pay [...]
By Steve Prokopchak It all began with our book Called Together. We called it premarital counseling, but over time it became a way to mentor the next generation into healthy marriage relationships. The mentoring was reinforced by our ongoing connections after the wedding day in what we referred to as postmarital counseling. What started as [...]
Fighting and Arguing or Praying and Agreeing By Steve and Mary Prokopchak We made a major discovery early in our marriage. When it came to conflict, we could choose to “fight and argue,” or we could “pray and agree.” Disagreement is powerful, but agreement is even more powerful. The Scriptures tell us that if any [...]
