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Spiritual Retreat for Leaders
This week was sacred. We spent two days on retreat with the Branch Managers of Sun Life Metro Manila, leaning into a truth we often forget in the rush of leadership: “Our soul is the soil from which all our leadership grows.” To lead is a sacred trust. The decisions we make can ripple into…
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How to Organize Parties the Jesus Way
I have been meditating on this text for the past month and decided to write an article about it. “When you give a dinner or a banquet, do not invite your friends or your brothers or your relatives or rich neighbors, lest they also invite you in return and you be repaid. But when you…
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What does it mean to be Effective as a Pastor?
Matthew 25:21 His master said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a little; I will set you over much. Enter into the joy of your master.’ How Do I Measure My Effectiveness as a Pastor? When you read church growth books, you often encounter people telling you how…
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Measuring Success as a Pastor
“Every leader, in a sense, has got to establish some metrics of how he or she defines success in whatever his or her particular mission is. So, in some ways, the content of those measures will differ. But transcending that, I think if you look at all of the leadership literature, if you look at…