Leadership Challenge…Heading into the Weekend – What if People Lived and Led Like I Do?
As a leader, people are watching you and following your example, even when you don’t know it. For better or for worse, your example is influencing the people God has called you to lead. This is true even when you think no one sees what …
Read MoreLeadership Challenge…Heading Into the Weekend – The Accountability Lifeline
In the past two weeks I have heard and processed stories of four different people who have compromised their ministry, marriage, family life, or future because they have made poor choices, over time, and then it came to the surface. It has been a painful …
Read MoreOrganic Outreach Encouragement…For the Middle of the Week – The Power of Accountability
I was with a ministry friend yesterday and we were talking about sharing our faith. He has a passion for God and a deep commitment to share the love, grace, and message of Jesus with those who are still far from the Savior. We got …
Read MoreLeadership Challenge…Heading Into the Weekend – Make Your Brain Big!
Great leaders have BIG brains! This is not a comment about education or IQ, but about a hunger to learn. I get to interact with all sorts of leaders and I am often struck by the reality that great leaders are hungry to learn. They …
Read MoreOrganic Outreach Encouragement…For the Middle of the Week – Notice Open Doors
Sometimes we go on mission trips and experience profound opportunities to share the love, grace, and gospel of Jesus. These are wonderful slices of life that we lock in our memory banks and never forget. On these excursions away from “normal life” we often engage …
Read MoreLeadership Challenge…Heading Into the Weekend – Bless and Bless Again
Proverbs tells us “Life and death are in the power of the tongue”(Proverbs 18:21). Great leaders, those who impact deeply and influence us for a lifetime, have a unique ability to speak words of blessing. They seem to bless, and then, bless again. This …
Read MoreOrganic Outreach Encouragement…For the Middle of the Week – One Degree Rule
Every follower of Jesus has an outreach temperature. It can be hot, cold or somewhere in the middle. Imagine a scale from one to ten. One is cold and ten is sizzling hot. What is your temperature right now? Are you on fire for those …
Read MoreDraw Near to God…Thoughts for a Monday Morning – Tip, Tithe, or Total Surrender?
Here are three pictures of how we can live our lives of faith. Picture 1- Tip– This is when we throw God the leftovers, what is easy, and the spare change we have in our pockets. We give God the scraps of our time …
Read MoreLeadership Challenge…Heading Into the Weekend – Borrow Stuff
The smartest leaders I have met through the years are people who are really good at borrowing things. They don’t feel they need to re-invent the wheel and come up with new stuff at every turn. They are humble enough to know that other people …
Read MoreOrganic Outreach Encouragement…For the Middle of the Week – Enthusiasm is Contagious
You have met people who are passionate about all sorts of things. They love their dog, they are nuts about a new restaurant, or they are sold out on a new diet or work out program. Their enthusiasm is contagious. They talk, often, about what …
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