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The Small Town Baptist web site is a library providing free resources for those who serve traditional churches (more or less) in small town America. New pdf and audio files are regularly added in sections for Preaching, Leading Worship, Small Town Ministry, Strategies, and Beliefs & Doctrine. There are training materials and resources for Sunday School, Deacon Ministry, the Ministry of the Baptist Association, and Strategic Planning. The Doctrine section offers text and audio files on biblical beliefs including two lengthier sub-sections on the Trinity and on the Person and Work of God the Father. Another subsection includes devotional material in audio and pdf called "Recovering Church Health." While some of the material reflects our Baptist background, other evangelical believers will find almost all of our offerings helpful for use in their churches.
PREACHING
WORSHIP
SMALL TOWN
STRATEGIES
SMALL CHURCH
CHURCH HEALTH
DOCTRINE
TRINITY
THE FATHER
Sermon Preparation, Selected Sermons
Sub-Section:Sermon Preparation & Planning
Booklet: Preparing Sermons with Limited Time
Audio Overview: Preparing Sermons with Limited Time
Preaching "Food Pyramid" to Help in Sermon Planning
Audio: The Preaching Pyramid Tool Explained
Audio & Factsheet: Illustrating Sermons
Audio: Leading Funerals
Booklet: Fact Sheet & Funeral Messages
Easter Sermons
Christmas Sermons
Preaching Tab: Small Town Baptist .Net
Leading Worship, Prayer, and Praise
Many are re-thinking how to lead worship, seeking ways to make it less about attending the "church show" and watching other people worship like a spectator - and more about the people gathering to worship. This page also provides resources for a prayer emphasis and corporate prayer.
Sub-Section: Leading Worship
Booklet: Leading Worship
What Worship Is and Our Role as Worship Leaders
Where's the Gift of Music?
Biblical Calls to Worship
Audio: Leading Trinitarian Worship
List: Biblical Trinitarian Praise
List: Bible Belief Verse of the Week
Article: Time of Confession
Articles & List: Assurance of Forgiveness
List: Bible-Based Prayers for Understanding
List: Benedictions -Speaking Blessings Over God's People
A Plan for a Themed Intergenerational Service
Sub-Section: Praise
Booklet: Describing God, on the arrtibutes of God
Sub-Section: Leading a Praying Church
Booklet: Leading a Prayer Emphasis
Leading Guided Prayer
Audio: Praying Your People Toward Prayer, Bob Weber
Audio: How to Have a Devotional Time, John Fain
Audio: How to Hear God, John Fain
Audio: Reenergizing Our Quiet Time, Fain & Weber
Worship Tab: Small Town Baptist .Net
The Unwritten Rules for Ministering in a Small Town
If you grew up in suburb and have been called to a small town, this page might be especially helpful for you.
Advantages of Small Town Ministry
Don't Let 'Em Get You Down
Off-Site Links
Small Town Ministry Tab: Small Town Baptist .Net
Strategic Planning, Church Health, Sunday School, Deacon Ministry, Associational Ministry
Strategic Planning
Ministry Project Planning
Recovering Church Health
Emphasis Ideas
Booklet: Recovering Church Health
Hear Booklet Devotionals in Audio
World Evangelization
Audio: Are You Willing to be Number 4?, Roy Fish
One Sentence Testimonies Worksheet
Audio: How to Talk with Children About Salvation
Spiritual Gifts
Booklet: How to Recognize Your Gift
Booklet: What About the So-Called Charismatic Gifts?
Ministry Teams
Audio: Decentralizing Ministry Without Anarchy
Building Programs
The Building Process
Balanced Space
Space Evaluation Worksheets
Spreadsheet: Worship Center Capacity, Pews
Spreadsheet: Sunday School Capacities
Capital Campaigns: An Introduction
Sunday School
Booklet: Adult Teacher Training Booklet (21 pages)
PowerPoint: 1. Sunday School: Still a Good Idea
PowerPoint: 2. Bible Study Tools
PowerPoint: 3. Teaching the Passage
PowerPoint: 4. Sunday School, Evangelism, & Disipleship
PowerPoint: 5. Sunday School: Ministering
PowerPoint: 6. Starting Classes
Audio & Fact Sheet: Starting New Classes Like New Churches
Audio: Types of Adult Classes
Audio: Rebranding Sunday School is Not Enough
Deacon Ministry
Booklet: The Biblical Role of Deacons
PowerPoints for Deacon Ministry Skill Training:
PowerPoint:How to Give Your Testimony
PowerPoint: Leading Public Prayer
PowerPoint: Making Hospital Visits
PowerPoint: Protecting Church Unity
PowerPoint: Making Hospital Visits
PowerPoint: Biblical Role of Deacons
PowerPoint: Staffing the Church
PowerPoint: Crisis Management
Associational Missions & Ministry
Devotionals: Church Members, the Association, & the Mission
Prayer Guide for Associations: Look on the Fields
Miscelllaneous
Vacation Bible School: Observations & Suggestions
Strategies Tab: Small Town Baptist .Net
Ideas for Leading Worship & Ministry in the Small Church:
Audio Session 1: You're Not So Small, Elevate the Fellowship
Audio Session 2: What Worship Is & Our Role as Worship Leaders
Session 2, continued: If You Can't Sing It, Say it!
Audio Session 3: Vision and Your Church's Niche
Audio Session 4: Options for Small Churches ih Critical Decline
Audio Session 5: Pastoral Leadership in the Small Church
Fact Sheets & Articles (some found also in other sections):
Leading Guided Prayer
Ideas for Livening Up the Worship Service in a Small Church
Leading Guided Prayer
Biblical Calls to Worship
Bible Belief Verse of the Week
Time of Confession in Worship
Assurance of Forgiveness
Benedictions: Speaking Blessing Over God's People
A Plan for a Themed Intergenerational Service
Sub-Index: Small Church Ministry
Recovering Church Health Sub-Index
A devotional booklet and ideas for an emphasis on strengthening church health. Each day's devotional is available in audio.
Sub-Index: Recovering Church Health
Helps for Understanding and Teaching Biblical Beliefs
The materials under this tab offer helpful resources for teaching biblical truths. Some will be helpful for the minister's personal edification. You may also want to take notice below of the sub-index on the Trinity and on God the Father.
Booklet: Know the Truth: 62 Questions & Answers for Families
Verse List: Bible Belief Verse of the Week
Sub-Index: The Trinity
Sub-Index: The Person and Work of God the Father (Paterology)
Audio: The Doctrine of Man
Booklet: The Attributes of God
Baptist Faith & Message 2000, compared to 1925 & '63
Doctrine Tab: Small Town Baptist .Net
The Trinity
1. A Young Couple (3:24) {audio}
2. We're Not Unitarians (5:43) {audio}
3. Let's Take a Fresh Look (2:45) {audio}
4. The Guardrails (4:16) {audio} {fact sheet}
5. Guardrail 1: There is One God (4:22) {audio}
6. The Oneness of God (4:33) {audio}
7. Guardrail 2: There Are Three Persons (3:20) {audio} {fact sheet}
8. Reasons We Miss the Three-ness (3:03) {audio}
9. What We Mean by Person (4:46) {audio}
10. Three Persons... Simultaneously (2:17) {audio}
11. Guardrail 3: Each Person is Fully God - The Father (3:41) {audio}
12. Jesus, the Son, is Eternal God (5:51) {audio}
13. The Spirit is God (4:39) {audio}
14. How the Incarnation Fits (4:11) {audio} {fact sheet}
15. How God's Plan Unfolded (12:29) {audio}
16. Christ-Centered or Triune? (4:15) {audio}
17. Guardrail 4: There Are Three Persons Eternally (6:01) {audio}
18. Guardrail 5: The Persons Are Distinct (3:35) {audio}
19. Guardrail 6: The Persons Mutually Indwell Each Other (3:57) {audio}
20. Guardrail 7: Inseparable Operations (6:29) {audio}
21. From the Father, Through the Son, By the Spirit (6:51) {audio}
22. There's Always That Guy (3:50) {audio}
23. Is Eternal Generation a Thing? (8:41) {audio}
24. The Procession of the Spirit (5:44) {audio}
25. Outward Missions Reveal Inward Relations (4:15) {audio}
26. The Persons of the Trinity Glorify One Another (4:45) {audio}
27. Why isn't the Spirit Mentioned? (3:56) {audio}
28. Leading Trinitarian Worship (5:34) {audio}
29. Preaching Trinitarianly (4:59) {audio}
30. Equipping Members to Worship Trinitarily (6:22) {audio}
Glossaries
A Shorter Glossary of Trinitarian Terms {audio} {fact sheet}
A Longer Glossary of Trinitarian Terms {audio} {fact sheet}
Recorded Live: Some audio files have been edited by the speaker for length and polish.
Recorded Live: The Three-ness of God (30:26) {audio} {fact sheet}
Passage List: Passages Mentioning the Three Persons {passage list}
Recorded Live: Seven Guardrails in Understanding the Trinity (56:15) {audio} {fact sheet}
Recorded Live: Eight Principles in Understanding the Incarnation (26:23) {audio} {fact sheet}
Recorded Live: Nine Objections to the Trinity (33:15) {audio} {fact sheet}
Recorded Live: How is God the Father... a Father? (9:27) {audio} {fact sheet}
Recorded Live: God the Father: Source & Planner (30:26) {audio} {fact sheet}
Recorded Live: Is God the Same in Public as He is in Private? (56:15) {audio} {fact sheet}
Recorded Live: Relating to God the Father (17:17) {audio} {fact sheet}
Trinitarian Worship
Trinitarian Praise: Bible-Based Trinitarian Praise (pdf)
Sub-Index: The Trinity
The Person and Work of God the Father (Paterology)
1. What Can We Say About God the Father? (5:58) {audio}
2. Father as Metaphor (4:34) {audio}
3. The Father is Called, Simply, God (6:27) {audio}
4. How is the Father a Father? (6:03) {audio}
5. The Planning Father (6:05) {audio}
6. The Distant Father (3:10) {audio}
7. The Sending Father (3:30) {audio}
8. Access to the Father (5:43) {audio}
9. Access to the Father Experienced (5:51) {audio}
10. The Father Giving the Son (5:05) {audio}
11. The Father Raised Jesus from the Dead (6:02) {audio}
12. The Father Hearing & Answering Prayer (14:37) {audio}
13. The Father Adopting (9:19) {audio}
14. The Father and His Kingdom (8:11) {audio}
15. The Father Correcting (8:23) {audio}
16. Repentance Toward God (3:56) {audio}
17. Your Father (5:57) {audio}
18. The God & Father of Our Lord Jesus Christ (2:25) {audio}
19. Our God and Father (2:24) {audio}
20. The Father: Summary & Closing Argument (7:50) {audio}
Recorded Live
Some audio files have been edited by the speaker for length and polish.
Recorded Live: How is God the Father... a Father? (9:27) {audio} {fact sheet}
Recorded Live: God the Father: Source & Planner (35:54) {audio} {fact sheet}
Recorded Live: Relating to God the Father (17:17) {audio} {fact sheet}
Sub-Index: God the Father
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