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TRANSFORMED SERVANT LEADERSHIP

February 6, 2012

We just finished our annual Generation Unleashed Conference at City Bible Church. Over two weekends, we hosted about 6,000 teens and young adults for an awesome time of worship, devotions, powerful preaching, and prayer. We also hold leadership sessions in the mornings for all youth pastors, leaders, and all those involved in leadership training. College [...]

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A NOURISHED SOUL

February 3, 2012

Everyone has an atmosphere. Every place has an atmosphere. An atmosphere is that pervading feeling or sense of something that sets a certain tone and mood. The right music in a film sets an atmosphere of suspense, relaxation, humor, and so on. Likewise, our churches and our lives carry a certain atmosphere. The element that [...]

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I CAN’T WAIT!

February 2, 2012

Every person has a choice: slumber and sleep your way through life or wake up and live life to the maximum! Life is meant to be filled to the full of all the great things God has done, is doing, and will do in the future. Life is best lived when aligned to Jesus and [...]

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ARE YOU A STEWARD OF PEOPLE?

February 1, 2012

Leaders are stewards. When we hear the word “stewardship,” most of us think about money. Yes, money is one thing of which we are stewards, but leaders are also stewards of the resources of people, time, and knowledge. There is a difference among these resources. As leaders, we must use money, time, and knowledge, but [...]

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FRESH OR STALE?

January 31, 2012

Have you ever popped opened a bag of chips, sunk your teeth into a piece, expecting a nice crunch, only to find it is soft and gooey and definitely without flavor? That chip was stale, not fresh! Spiritually healthy churches are not stale, but they are fresh. Church health and spiritual depth cannot be measured [...]

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DO YOU TRUST ME?

January 30, 2012

Whether delivered as a line in a Disney movie or exchanged between friends embarking on a dangerous expedition, the question, “Do you trust me?” must be asked of leaders. Trust must be earned and protected at all costs, because without trust, we have an empty leadership process. Trust is a firm belief in the honesty [...]

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GREAT VISION TAKES POSSESSION

January 27, 2012

Great vision is a vision that is as big as our great God. That vision is ours to grasp, we need only to reach out and take it. Martin Luther once said, “God loves not the questioner but the runner.” The vision must be followed by the venture. It is not enough to share the [...]

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GREAT VISION TAKES GREAT FAITH

January 26, 2012

The last couple of days, we have talked about great vision and the leaders that implement it. Today I want to address another aspect of great vision with this statement: Great vision takes great faith! Something that is “great” is unusually or comparatively large in size or dimension, as the dictionary defines it. We serve [...]

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VISIONARY LEADERSHIP

January 25, 2012

“Nothing worth doing is completed in our lifetime!” Reinhold Nieburh made this statement and I think it is a fitting perspective. Vision should be so grand that it extends beyond your capacity to do on your own and beyond your lifetime. Vision is that which a congregation perceives by the Holy Spirit as pertaining to [...]

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THE NECESSITY OF A CLEAR VISION

January 24, 2012

Vision is a biblical word. A spiritually healthy person or church must have a biblically accurate vision that they are continually progressing toward fulfilling. A participating member of a local church is a person of vision and is an important factor in fulfilling the vision. The responsibility for casting that vision rests on the leadership. [...]

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