Leadership
Building A Team
Just the thought of teamwork is motivating for most people. Deep in our hearts, we earnestly desire to cooperate with others and to be part of something larger than ourselves. This produces some initial success – or at least enthusiasm – for nearly all teambuilding efforts. However, without a clear understanding of the entire concept […]
Stress Fitness
L I V E I T Today’s best advice from Christian books. http://liveit.crosswalk.com/ HOW IS YOUR STRESS FITNESS? Some people just seem to handle stress better than others. Certain life habits can prepare you well for stress: they give you a kind of cushion for the hard knocks of life. Stress fitness helps increase your […]
Worship And Praise
Worship requires ‘life,’ Merritt tells seminarians By Cory Hailey FORT WORTH, Texas (BP)–A “dead worship service” is an oxymoron, because a dead worship service is not worship at all, said Southern Baptist Convention President James Merritt at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary Sept. 12. “I don’t mind telling you, I’ve been in some churches where you’d […]
Responsibilities Of Church Membership
L I V E I T Today’s best advice from Christian books. http://liveit.crosswalk.com/ When you unite with a church it is because there is a need in your soul for the message and the inspiration of the church. You also are uniting with it because there is an innate need to give and to do. […]
Stress Relief For Prophets (And Others)
Clergy/Leaders’ Mail-list No. 1-151 (Sermon) STRESS RELIEF FOR PROPHETS (AND OTHERS) 1 Kings 19:1-18 by Rod Benson Did you see the television news yesterday [October 14, 1995], where the captain of a trawler ran onto a sandbar on [Queensland’s] Sunshine Coast, because he fell asleep at the wheel? While he was being interviewed, he was […]
A New Shape For The Church
By Dudley Foord and Rowland Croucher (First published in booklet form in the 1970s) According to the New Testament, the Church of Jesus Christ is a glorious Church. Christ loved the Church and gave Himself for it. He is continuing to build and protect it. He walks in the midst of the golden lampstands. However, […]
Turn Workers Into Messengers
Orignally published Christianity Today, Inc./Leadership journal. How church vision gets caught. By Gary J. Blanchard At 7:30 a.m. the bank president and I walked into the bank together. I was fresh out of college and beginning a career as a manager in the human resources department. As we approached the foyer doors, Leonard, the janitor, […]
Leadership Check-Up
By Dr. John C. Maxwell A vital leader seldom waits for failure before appraising his or her leadership skills. These eight questions will help you evaluate your leadership strengths and weaknesses. You can then fine-tune your personal development program accordingly. 1. How and where do I have influence? Influence – not position or power – […]
Critical Charlie – Turning Around A Negative Person
By Dr. John C. Maxwell His words are discouraging. His actions undermine people. His presence impairs progress. “Critical Charlie” is as negative a person as you have ever met. For him, the sunshine is too bright, and the birds are singing too loudly. He is motivated by anyone who will listen to his complaints and […]
The Defective Leader
“He has not a single redeeming defect.” -Benjamin Disraeli, of another British parliamentarian Warm-up: Exodus 5:21-23 I somewhere read that a Huey Cobra helicopter, practicing auto rotations during a military night-training exercise, landed on its tail rotor, separating the tail boom from the rest of the aircraft. Fortunately, the aircraft wound up on its skids, […]
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