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  • 5 Ships Needed to Take Your Church into the Future  By : Bryan Cutshall
    One of the most common mistakes made by leaders is changing courses to fast. A church is a lot like a ship. If you turn too fast, you will turn the boat over. The sea of life if full of sunken ships that would have survived if the leaders would have transitioned instead of forcing abrupt and immediate change. Change is not accepted merely because it is needed.
  • A Christian Paradox  By : The Quad-father
    Sadly but to no surprise the facade has been lifted off yet another fallen major
    Christian leader’s life and the scene is ugly. Reality can be thwarted and hidden only for so long but the reality remains. A man is only a man. The more we idolize and cede special spiritual status to “special” Christian leaders the more we cede responsibility for our own spiritual lives. In all this we simply make ourselves vulnerable to inevitable disappointment, unknowingly hang hypocrisy in our front stained
  • Are You A Shepherd Or A Hireling?  By : Dr Gerrit van Vuuren
    Jesus taught that there are shepherds who look after the sheep, who care for, provide and defend the flock. Then there are hirelings, whom pretend to do the same, but who flee when the enemy shows up.
  • Bible Study Basics: The Importance of Discussion  By : Paula Marolewski
    Why include discussion in a Bible study, small group, or Sunday School class? Why not just lecture, or watch a great preacher or teacher on DVD, then call it quits for the day? Discussion is an essential part of every Bible study or teaching time for these six important reasons.
  • Bible Study Basics: The Pitfalls of Discussion  By : Paula Marolewski
    Discussion is vital to Bible studies, small groups, and Sunday school classes. Yet sometimes, discussion ends in disaster. Here are five of the biggest reasons discussion can take a nosedive …
  • Can God Trust You?  By : The Quad-father
    How much do you think God Trusts you? What does God trust you with? Would you like more from God? Do you think you could handle more? What would you say is too much for you to handle? These and other ponder provoking questions could be part of a savvy Gallup or George Barna group survey but no. These are just small pieces in of one of the major points of development that God wants expanded in every believer. Stewardship.
  • Christian Education: 12 Keys of Effective Teaching  By : Paula Marolewski
    What makes a dynamic class? Why do some small groups explode and some expire? What type of leader inspires participants to learn and grow? Put these 12 keys of effective teaching into practice, and you will see your class or group take on new life!
  • Christian Education: What is the Gift of Teaching?  By : Paula Marolewski
    We could talk about the gift of teaching in terms of skill sets, personality types, and rhetorical styles - but we won't. Not here. Instead, let's discuss the gift of teaching in terms of what it is meant to accomplish in the Body of Christ. When you understand your calling, you will better understand your gift!
  • Do We Still Need Christian Leaders? [Part 1]  By : Dr Gerrit van Vuuren
    In the times that welive, there is a growing tendency to want to push aside leadership. But, is this practice in line with God's Word?
  • Do We Still Need Christian Leaders? [Part 2]  By : Dr Gerrit van Vuuren
    In the recent past I have had various encounters with [existing and new] Christian groups who felt they would be serving God better if they did not appoint a leader. Their attitude was that having a leader, would imply that they were serving man and not God.

    In our previous article [part 1] we discovered that God IS a leader, and also appoints leaders.
  • Does A Best Leadership Style Exist?  By : Dr Gerrit van Vuuren
    Leadership specialists appear to agree that no 'one best leadership style' exists. I do not agree!
  • Keys to Christian Discipleship: Learn to Listen  By : Paula Marolewski
    In order to be effective at Christian discipleship, you have to listen. Remember that listening is an active verb ... a very active verb, and it takes both effort and practice. Here are four key areas to pay attention to when you are listening.
  • Maher O’Donnell Hagee and Hagee – Not the Law Firm  By : Rev Michael Bresciani
    Great American contrasts are produced by controversial figures everyday in the land of the free. Some of them lead to heated verbal responses, while others leave us speechless. Freedom and speechlessness may be the great American non sequitur.
  • Prayer and psalm 138  By : Chris Gaffney
    This psalm puts emphasis on the closeness of the Lord.
  • Rick Warren’s Whole Bird – Why This Bird Can’t Fly  By : Rev Michael Bresciani
    When Faith and Family’s Dr. Richard Land was my pastor over thirty years ago he once described his calling to preach the gospel. He said that the call to preach the gospel was a higher calling than becoming the President of the United States. After more than three decades of examination I have never found reason to doubt what he said.
  • The Christian Attempt To Hide The Gospel  By : Hanna Henderson
    It's becoming increasingly popular for Christians who share their faith with others to attempt to make the gospel more appealing by "repackaging" it with something else. That something else may range from the display of magic tricks to tributes to the late Elvis Presley.
  • The Dynamics Of Jesus' Leadership Style  By : Dr Gerrit van Vuuren
    There appears to be a popular belief among Christians that the Christian walk, and also Christian leadership is a simplex affair. Not so. It is highly complex.
  • The Leadership Style Of Jesus Christ  By : Dr Gerrit van Vuuren
    Is it not strange that the leadership style of the most important person to ever walk this earth was never properly researched and developed?
  • The New Evangelicals – Busy Sweeping Out Spider Webs  By : Rev Michael Bresciani
    Some forty years past I had to look up the word “apostasy.” In the Bible it refers to the church in the last days being influenced by faithlessness, liberalism and secularism. Sadly I have witnessed this trend gaining and now it is spiraling out of control.
  • The Qualities of Those Who Judge  By : Pastor Gary Earls
    What Does God Look For in a Leader How about Moses, God's man? What possessed him to do what he did? Was he a lunatic or was his ego out of control? How could he be so blind as to not recognize that by his actions he would wear not only himself out but also the people that the Sovereign Lord had called him to lead into the land of promise. Did you ever have a blind spot? Something that for some reason was not evident to you but certainly was to others?
  • What Is The Most Important Attribute Of An Outstanding Leader?  By : Dr Gerrit van Vuuren
    Of all the attributes required for being an outstanding leader, I have found one to be the most important.
  • Winning Horse Races With Your Milk Cows  By : Dr Gerrit van Vuuren
    Some leaders appear to confuse manipulation for motivation.

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