Why Successful Ministry Leaders Are Rarely Challenged
Due to past successes, supporters often give leaders a free pass for any current suspicious direction. Allowing past successes to overlook present mistakes will lead to future calamities.
Due to past successes, supporters often give leaders a free pass for any current suspicious direction. Allowing past successes to overlook present mistakes will lead to future calamities.
2020 has been challenging, but we still have a ways to go. Instead of losing a critical opportunity by pacing through another intermediate stage as a church, what if you created a strategy for the next three months of which your entire church could get behind?
Are you a leader? Have you always wanted to be a leader? If so, you should learn from the greatest leader this world ever witnessed. Here are 7 essential leadership characteristics from the life of Jesus.
The first 2 weeks will make or break your college experience. Depending upon the relationships you build in the first 2 weeks will determine how you finish.
All church leaders have been imagining what it will be like when we restart and everything returns to normal. That isn’t happening. We need to think about a church rebuild – not a church restart.
Daniel learned how to stay faithful to God in a culture that was hostile toward his faith. Navigating through promised persecution, prideful politicians, and petrifying predictions, Daniel and his friends maintained their commitment regardless of the outcome.
Jesus taught the importance of hearing and obeying God’s Word in a story he taught about two builders. The difference may seem subtle at first, but the outcome is dramatically polarizing from each other.
In Matthew 28, we read of how Jesus gathered his disciples together after his resurrection. On that day, he provided the Great Commission and assured the disciples of his presence with them as they went out.
In Matthew 26:36-46, we read of Jesus’ prayer in the Garden of Gethsemane before his crucifixion. Even though he knew the great cost for our salvation, he was willing to take our place.
In Acts 26, we read Paul’s story and find him in prison telling his story to King Agrippa. Before Paul became a Christ-follower, he was actually being unkind to Christians. The good news is that on the Road to Damascus, God got his attention with a bright light and Paul turned from his sin. Paul changed the way he lived.