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Mistakes Leaders Make #3: Pride
John Stott said that pride is the greatest enemy and humility our greatest friend. It is our greatest enemy because most of the time we can’t see our pride. That’s why we are proud because we can’t see that we have moved away from humility. I thank God for my wife who is my pride…
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Mistakes Leaders Make #2: Comparing instead of Contentment
In my last blog I shared about mistake number one: replacing Jesus with ministry and today let me share with you the 2nd mistake most leaders commit. ALLOWING COMPARING TO REPLACE CONTENTMENT. In a world where achievements and stats are often displayed for the world to see (whether it is pinterest, instagram, church websites), most…
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What Kind of Tolerance? What Every Christian should Know
As a blogger maintaining a Christian website, there are times you are also compelled to write what is happening in our culture today. Today there is a great fear among Christians to speak up because we might be labeled as self-righteous and intolerant. A buzzword in social media today. But you have to understand what…
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Mistakes Leaders Make Blog Series #1: Replacing Jesus
One of the best books I’ve read on leadership was written by a veteran pastor who has been in ministry for decades. Pastor Dave Kraft wrote a book called, Mistakes Leaders Make (Re:Lit), which I recommend every Christian leader reads. It actually mirrors the challenges and temptations we face as pastors and church leaders. So…
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On Confronting Sin
One of the toughest thing a Christian leader faces in discipleship is to confront sin in a person’s life. Some hesitate because of the fear it might offend or it might hurt the person’s feeling and that he might not come back to church if confronted or corrected. In my 7 years pastoring Greenhills, I…