Even if you just read the title of this post it did you good. This is taken from Disciple: Getting Your Identity From Jesus by Bill Clem. It is dangerous and tempting to change behavior without also changing heart and mind. Behavior modification has to do with “religion,” not with Christianity, and it leads to …
A good thought to take you into Sunday from Ray Ortlund. If we would stop treating Sunday as a second Saturday, one more day to run to Home Depot, one more day for the kids’ soccer games, another day for getting ready for Monday, if we would rediscover Sunday as The Lord’s Day, focusing on …
From John Dickson, posted at the Willow Creek blog: Pastors exercise a unique type of leadership, for the simple reason that ‘structural authority’ hardly features in the biblical teaching about what it means to shepherd God’s people. Generally, leadership employs four tools: (1) ability, the natural flair that got the leader to a position of …
Drafted by Shawn Lovejoy at Catalystspace. After much prayer and reflection, I have made a private decision I need to make public here today. Effective immediately, I am resigning as the Leader of our church. Why am I taking this drastic measure? The answer is simple: The challenges of leadership here are simply more than …
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