Leadership
Trustworthy Leaders
You Can Trust Me Five Characteristics of a Trustworthy Leader Rev. Darren DeGraaf Director of Leadership Services Arrow Leadership You can trust me. What image is conjured in your mind when you hear those words? Many flood my mind: The smiling father standing in the shallow end of a pool with arms open wide inviting […]
The Essence of Leadership
Go to the people. Live with them. Learn from them. Love them. Start with what they know. Build with what they have. But with the best leaders, when the work is done, the task accomplished, the people will say “We have done this ourselves” LaoTzu
Finishing Well
“There is no joy on earth comparable to the joy of finishing well.” The Fiery Crags (F W Boreham) p. 192.
The Joy of finishing and of finishing well
The joy of finishing and of finishing well! How passionately good people have coveted for themselves that ecstasy! I think of those pathetic entries in Livingstone’s journal. ‘Oh, to finish my work!’ he writes again and again. He is haunted by the vision of the unseen waters, the fountains of the Nile. Will he live […]
Socrates on Leadership
Socrates put it, “Societies [are made of those] whose individual characters, by turning the scale one way or another, determine the direction of the whole.””
Emerging churches
Missional Misgivings Small, indigenous churches are getting lots of attention, but where’s the fruit? Dan Kimball | posted 11/26/2008 I hope I am wrong. For the past few years, I have been observing, listening, and asking questions about the missional movement. I have a suspicion that the missional model has not yet proven itself beyond […]
Consumers at heart? From Consuming to Contributing
Posted on December 3, 2008 by wwwestlake I found my longevity in ministry, when I faced my consumerism, and its co-dependent-forming effect on churches, and shifted my orientation to contributing, to blessing & benefiting our neighbors and beyond. It’s the air we breathe – Western cultures are now so consumeristic, that by default churchgoers approach […]
Effective Oral Presentations
Tips for delivering a good presentation *Provide an introductory sentence at the beginning and a summary statement at the end (that is, first tell them what you are going to tell them, then tell them, and then you tell them what you have told them) *Practise the delivery of the presentation three or four times […]
The Church As Museum, Academy and Service Center
Harry T. Cook 11/28/08 The church as an institution is required in most local settings to be all things to all people. Likewise are the church’s clergy. What results often enough are a number of unrelated tasks not done particularly well by people minimally trained in too many things so that none of them gets […]
Pastors’ Wives
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TyNyHLCppMA http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iY4khRpG8O8&NR=1
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