May

08

Intentional Leader starts with Intentional Growth

It’s a funny thing what you can go through in a week. Think about it for a second……….how many different experiences did you go through last week? Maybe you went through some experiences that you normally do but for some reason they were just different. For me, last week was all about leadership. I live [...]

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May

07

Discipline.

I have a growing, nagging, pain in my head and heart. It is one that seems to creep up on me and for some reason I cannot shake it this time. It is something that I have never really been good at. My parents would try but I would find some way to resist. Sorry [...]

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Feb

20

Do you know what you are doing?

How would you do that?  That question has been coming into my head a lot lately. I am not really sure why. But it is something that I think can hold a lot of weight in one’s life. Here is my thought behind that question: If you don’t know how you would do something, how [...]

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Jan

30

Complacency

There is something in our youth ministry that we are dealing with that is frustrating at best. It is something that we can’t seem to figure out over and over. Complacency. Here is the definition of Complacency according to Merriam Webster:  self-satisfaction especially when accompanied by unawareness of actual dangers or deficiencies Does this scare [...]

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Jan

20

The mystery of leadership

There is a constant fear in my head. One that seems to be coming to the forefront on my brain as I continue in my line of work. In Student Ministry, we give a lot of responsibility and expectation to a lot of people. We have volunteers that we lead, empower, encourage and release. However [...]

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Jan

19

Relational Discipleship

Fatherly advice is always good. It is one thing that everyone in the world can agree is one of the best things in life. Unfortunately some will get fatherly advice from someone other than their real father, but the fatherly advice that we get in life is some of the best advice that can be [...]

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