I ate too much unhealthy food and didn’t exercise enough. I wasn’t grossly overweight, but the spare tire above my belt was slowly inflating. I hadn’t seen Dave for about…
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From development workers to orchestra directors to databases, a host of MB leaders and projects received accolades this fall: Ron Toews, director of L2L (the leadership development arm of the…
When my 16-year-old daughter Alketa saw the photo of the little boy washed up on the beach, her heart broke for people from Syria. She was compelled to raise…
Christians seem to have a love-hate relationship with conflict. We love to disagree (note: there are approximately 33,000 denominations in the world), yet we often feel bad about engaging in conflict. It somehow feels dirty…
Stuart Murray in his book, The Naked Anabaptist, suggests that many Anabaptists around the world are part of traditions we wouldn’t readily associate with Anabaptism. According to Murray, they practice a stripped down or “naked” form of Anabaptism
Transitions: Leading Churches Through ChangeEditor: David MosserTransitions: Leading Churches Through Change is an attempt to provide church leaders with wisdom for helping congregations deal with change in their personal lives, in their churches, and in society at large. Some chapters contain intriguing research on leading change and related topics. Other chapters feature moving testimonies from leaders who succeeded and sometimes failed in their change efforts.
Spiritual LeadershipAuthors: Henry and Richard Blackaby“Leadership occurs when you move people from where they are to where they ought to be” as God leads, contend Henry and Richard Blackaby, in their expanded revision of Spiritual Leadership published in 2011. A strong theme throughout the book is that leaders who want to lead in God-honouring ways must hear from God and obey his voice.
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You Never Know What You Have Till You Give it Away and Other Important Lessons on Leadership
by ReviewerYou Never Know What You Have Till You Give it Away and Other Important Lessons on LeadershipAuthor: Brian C. Stiller“If the congregation, organization or business is not edging out onto a ledge of increasing discomfort, the feelings of comfort are so compelling that they build into systems, protocols and defense procedures that protect rather than agitate for creativity.”