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Leadership is Never Playing It Safe
Stan Toler said that “Leadership is about moving people in a preferred direction toward a destination born out of a vision.”[1] It’s telling the people you are leading this is where we are going. It is driven by a compelling vision worth flinging your life to. I grew up in a safe church. All we…
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Leading with Wisdom
James 3:13-18 13-16 Do you want to be counted wise, to build a reputation for wisdom? Here’s what you do: Live well, live wisely, live humbly. It’s the way you live, not the way you talk, that counts. Mean-spirited ambition isn’t wisdom. Boasting that you are wise isn’t wisdom. Twisting the truth to make yourselves sound…
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SEA Games Complaints and Church Complaints
So to clear things up first – this is not a blog to pinpoint what’s right or wrong with the SEA Games. I am with the people who encourage us to stop putting in social media our feelings about the SEA Games preparation especially if we are not involved in it. It’s interesting to note…
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Choosing the Right Leader
Read Judges 9:1-21 Now Abimelech the son of Jerubbaal went to Shechem to his mother’s relatives and said to them and to the whole clan of his mother’s family, 2 “Say in the ears of all the leaders of Shechem, ‘Which is better for you, that all seventy of the sons of Jerubbaal rule over you,…
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The Rise and Fall of Gideon
Read Judges 8:22-35 22 Then the men of Israel said to Gideon, “Rule over us, you and your son and your grandson also, for you have saved us from the hand of Midian.” 23 Gideon said to them, “I will not rule over you, and my son will not rule over you; the Lord will rule over you.” 24 And Gideon said to…