Dan Rockwell summarises Peter Drucker on influence and provides nine questions “to point out and begin resolving wasted effort.” What’s frustrating you? What’s frustrating about that? What are you doing to solve your frustration? How’s your strategy working? What do you really want, with this situation in mind? Who do you want to be, with …
Ron Edmondson provides five constructive steps: Here are 5 ways to respond at the outset of a crisis: Slow down – The general tendency is to speed up, but “haste makes waste”. You need to move quickly, and sometimes you have to put out some initial flames, but as much as you can, slow down …
A post about growing a heart that genuinely is joyful when hearing about other churches that are seeing more fruit than the one you belong to. This is hard. For me, anyway. We strive to see fruitfulness in our mission and ministry, but when others seem to have blessings that we’d like to experience there’s …
Constructive insights into personal failure from David Murray. Some of the lessons I’ve learned from failure: My failures are usually the result of over-confidence. When I’ve failed it’s often because I was putting too much trust in myself and not enough in God. A happy side-effect is that it has usually produced more prayerful dependence …
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