Organic Outreach Encouragement…For the Middle of the Week – The Power of Accountability
I was with a ministry friend yesterday and we were talking about sharing our faith. He has a passion for God and a deep commitment to share the love, grace, and message of Jesus with those who are still far from the Savior. We got …
Read MoreLeadership Challenge…Heading Into the Weekend – Make Your Brain Big!
Great leaders have BIG brains! This is not a comment about education or IQ, but about a hunger to learn. I get to interact with all sorts of leaders and I am often struck by the reality that great leaders are hungry to learn. They …
Read MoreOrganic Outreach Encouragement…For the Middle of the Week – Notice Open Doors
Sometimes we go on mission trips and experience profound opportunities to share the love, grace, and gospel of Jesus. These are wonderful slices of life that we lock in our memory banks and never forget. On these excursions away from “normal life” we often engage …
Read MoreLeadership Challenge…Heading Into the Weekend – Bless and Bless Again
Proverbs tells us “Life and death are in the power of the tongue”(Proverbs 18:21). Great leaders, those who impact deeply and influence us for a lifetime, have a unique ability to speak words of blessing. They seem to bless, and then, bless again. This is …
Read MoreOrganic Outreach Encouragement…For the Middle of the Week – One Degree Rule
Every follower of Jesus has an outreach temperature. It can be hot, cold or somewhere in the middle. Imagine a scale from one to ten. One is cold and ten is sizzling hot. What is your temperature right now? Are you on fire for those …
Read MoreDraw Near to God…Thoughts for a Monday Morning – Tip, Tithe, or Total Surrender?
Here are three pictures of how we can live our lives of faith. Picture 1- Tip- This is when we throw God the leftovers, what is easy, and the spare change we have in our pockets. We give God the scraps of our time and …
Read MoreLeadership Challenge…Heading Into the Weekend – Borrow Stuff
The smartest leaders I have met through the years are people who are really good at borrowing things. They don’t feel they need to re-invent the wheel and come up with new stuff at every turn. They are humble enough to know that other people …
Read MoreOrganic Outreach Encouragement…For the Middle of the Week – Enthusiasm is Contagious
You have met people who are passionate about all sorts of things. They love their dog, they are nuts about a new restaurant, or they are sold out on a new diet or work out program. Their enthusiasm is contagious. They talk, often, about what …
Read MoreDraw Near to God…Thoughts for a Monday Morning – The Path of Blessing
I preached a sermon this past Sunday with the title, “Choosing To Be Cursed!”It was one of the most difficult sermons I have prepared for in a long time.I was looking at the passages in Deuteronomy about blessings and curses.Here are two of them: …
Read MoreDraw Near to God…Thoughts for a Monday Morning – Trivia or Life-Changing Truth?
Christians should dig deep into the Bible, God’s Word. It is not enough to have some Bible trivia locked away in our brain. Knowing the books of the Bible in order and finding our way around the Bible is a start. But, life-change comes when …
Read MoreLeadership Challenge…Heading Into the Weekend – Pride Kills
As we all know, God hates sin. But, one sin that seems to really break the heart of God is pride. When we become about ourselves, focus on our wants, or revel in our accomplishments, we just might be dancing on the edge of pride. …
Read MoreOrganic Outreach Encouragement…For the Middle of the Week – Beware the Lull
Christians and churches do a lot of outreach around Easter. We beef up our invitations, sweeten our worship services, and invest a lot in this important day. And, we should. There is something about Easter that makes non-believers open to connecting with God (or at …
Read MoreDraw Near to God…Thoughts for a Monday Morning – Don’t Get Distracted
Our culture does all it can to distract us from what really matters most. This became painfully true as I prepared for my Easter sermon. I decided to see what images are most associated with Easter so I did a Google search (with safe search …
Read MoreLeadership Challenge…Heading Into the Weekend – Blessing South
Leaders can influence in many ways. The leadership compass includes leading those North (our supervisor and those who lead us), ourselves (the center of the leadership compass), who are East and West of us (colleagues and peers) and those South of us (under our leadership …
Read MoreOrganic Outreach Encouragement…For the Middle of the Week – A Simple Invitation
Over the years I have read many studies and statistics that indicate that if Christians would kindly, prayerfully, and humbly ask their non-believing friends and family to come to church, many would say, “Yes!” These studies indicate that many people are open and hungry for …
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