Darryl Dash gathers together some thoughts on leadership in God’s kingdom and how it runs against conventional wisdom, portraying true leaders as servants who die. It includes a few thought-provoking quotes. An excerpt: Leadership involves disappointing people. It involves pain. It is a form of dying. If you are a leader, you know what it’s …

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Peter Adam continues a series of articles, this time identifying preaching as being the natural place where the Bible is corporately opened and applied to God’s people. If God speaks to his people as a group, why attempt to individualise the focus of applications? It’s not so much that there’s something in the text for …

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Ron Edmondson writes about the need for leaders entering a new situation to have the skill set to learn the unwritten rules; the unstated (and generally unconscious) culture that a leader seeking to cultivate growth will encounter. Leaders who don’t develop the skill of learning these unwritten rules will constantly feel blind-sided as their attempts …

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Songs of preparation: Consider Christ and God Has Spoken By His Prophets. Call to worship: Praise: Come Now Almighty King. Corporate Prayer of Confession: Song of assurance, confession of faith, doxology: King Of Kings, Majesty; The Apostles’ Creed; Now To Him Who Loved Us. Consecutive reading: 1 Corinthians 7: 25 – 40 – The Apostle …

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