Anxious leaderships do allow cranky souls to disturb the peace for those in ministry; too often those leaders are themselves the agitators.
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Anxious leaderships do allow cranky souls to disturb the peace for those in ministry; too often those leaders are themselves the agitators.
I am thankful we have forthright, get-to-the-point early Christian leaders like James to remind us of the key to it all.
Here are a few things I’ve learned while driving for Lyft, as God showed up in my backseat.
Is the presence of Christ set as the destination of our spiritual GPS? Or are we stuck on the side of the road, settling for peanuts, having forgotten where we are going?
The gospel is an emotional story that requires emotional intelligence to discern and follow.
This is the story of how God worked to help Destiny find her destiny as a disciple.
Do we sincerely strive to improve our communication as we mature, as we strive to improve in other spiritual areas? If we don’t, why not?
We fail to understand baptism unless we understand that baptism marks us as disciples of Jesus Christ who obey his calling every single day.
God’s kingdom is all around us, but we must be able to see it as a child does in order to experience its wonder and joy.
There’s power in telling a story and telling it well. And I believe that there is no more powerful story than that of God’s movement in your life.
Our heritage focuses on right thinking and purposeful doing, often without acknowledging emotion.
We are all storytellers. We want people to see a piece of who we are, who we love, what humbles us, what makes us proud, what shatters us, what brings us peace.
The third (and most annoying) way to end narcissistic shepherding is through the willingness to not shepherd. At least not that sheep at that time.
Our respect for previous generations often creates a crisis when the moment comes for our generation to assume responsibility for the Lord’s work.
The moral of the story is to be wary of striking rocks as leaders of God’s people. We need to steer away from the temptation to make what we do about ourselves.
Stories are what it means to be human. Our brains are bent to creating a narrative to explain and quantify what we encounter.
It’s a strange thing when we put God in the role of the hider and us in the role of the finder. That’s not the biblical story at all.
I can’t help but wonder what it would look like to be someone who obeyed the first time the word of the Lord came to me.
As grandparents, we can—and should—be active in the spiritual formation of our grandchildren.
To love is to invite each other to bring our full selves and all of our experiences to the relationship.
