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leadership

My Ministry Age

October 13, 2009

In the recent issue of Christianity Today Magazine, there is an interesting quiz that helps one determine their “ministry age” by answering a series of 25 multiple choice questions. It was developed by Jimmy Long of InterVarsity Christian Fellowship to foster dialog between younger and older leaders about diverse views and to contribute to better [...]

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Ways of Knowing

August 12, 2008

I’m reading a book called “Intuitive Leadership – Embracing a Paradign of Narrative, Metaphor and Chaos” by Tim Keel. In chapter 5, “Being There: grappling with the context of a ‘post’ world” – on page 128, Tim shares this observation:
“As a young Christian, most of what I was taught as “evangelism” was merely apologetics–-a particularly [...]

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Chapter 5 – The Senior Pastor: Is He Biblical?

June 20, 2008

I am going to jump ahead in my review of the book Pagan Christianity? by Frank Viola and George Barna, to Chapter 5 which is entitled: The Pastor: Obstacle to Every-Member Functioning. The reasons for doing this are many. The church that I attend is in the midst of a search for a “senior pastor.” [...]

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Leadership

May 2, 2007

I have a friend who inserts quotes at the bottom of his emails. This quote was on an email I received from him this morning. I have read it before, but it was striking to me in a new way today.
“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the [...]

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Harry Reid is an Idiot

April 27, 2007

The term “Idiot” was originally created by the Greeks to refer to people who were overly concerned with their own self-interest and ignored the needs of the community.
Harry Reid stated on April 19th that “The war is lost…” Oh really? View Video
I don’t know about Harry, but I am personally very thankful that there are [...]

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Ted Haggard

November 9, 2006

This guys moral failure and exposure the week before the election was really, really, sad and hard to take as a fellow evangelical Christian. I am so sad for his wife and especially his kids.
Here is one of the most insightful commentaries I have read on this unfortunate development, by a man who is no [...]

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