Reading about leadership provides helpful insights, encouragements and course corrections. Not everything translates to pastoral life, but even thinking about why it doesn’t helps refine our choices. From Scott Williams at Big Is The New Small. 13 Simple Ways To Increase Your Leadership 1. Read – Books, Blogs… 2. Find a Mentor – Find someone …

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As previously noted, the Directors of the World Reformed Fellowship gathered in Sydney over the past couple of weeks for various functions. As a church which has been humbled by the generosity of welcome which we have received when we’ve travelled abroad, Mount Gambier Presbyterian took the opportunity to invest in welcoming these brothers and …

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Thom Rainer’s blog continues to feature helpful and interesting material on church leadership. Here he posts about factors shared in common by churches which experienced a fresh season of growth, but did so with continuity in pastoral leadership. Rainer explains: So our research took a new twist. We only looked at churches that experienced breakouts …

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I am too prone to excess irritation, directed particularly at those who are closest to me. Especially when I’m tired or have another concern on my mind, but all too often for no reason at all. Phil Ryken looks behind irritability and points out the dangers, then directs us to a cure. Most of us …

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