by Bill Elliff | Nov 1, 2019 | Church Leadership, Men's Content, Personal Growth
Many of us find ourselves wasting time, which is our most precious commodity. When combined through a week (or a life), we spend thousands of hours doing senseless things and wonder why we don’t get the most important things done. Just think of wasting 2 hours a day...
by Bill Elliff | Oct 18, 2019 | Church Leadership, Personal Growth
It is the great tendency of man to live in the past. We love to recall some of our “best days,” when life was what we longed for it to be. As we get older, in fact, this increases. If we are not careful, we will find ourselves living there. But God is not merely the...
by Bill Elliff | Oct 4, 2019 | Church Leadership, Personal Growth
(Why Believers Can Be Courageous and Even Joyful in the Midst of Difficulty) All of us face some measure of suffering in this life. It could be a physical challenge, a hard ministry task, an overwhelming and perplexing difficulty, a persecution for our faith, a deep...
by John Avant | Sep 30, 2019 | God's Kingdom First, Presidents Column, Six Responses to God
The greatest spiritual movement in history … is now. Yet sadly, for those of us in America, we have to get on an airplane to see it firsthand. As evidence? What if I told you that Iran, one of the most spiritually oppressed places on earth right now, is in the midst...
by Bill Elliff | Sep 13, 2019 | Church Leadership, Personal Growth
Do you have what it takes? Do you worry about your inadequacy? Do you have an accurate assessment of your life? Have you found the secret of having confidence in any situation? Many people (perhaps most) are clueless about who they really are. One of the great secrets...
by Bill Elliff | Aug 30, 2019 | Church Leadership, Personal Growth
One of my mentors, Manley Beasley, once said to me that 1 Corinthians 2 is one of the most important passages in the Bible because it helps us see how to know the mind of God. It has become one of the most precious passages to me in all the Bible. Look at this vital...
by Bill Elliff | Aug 16, 2019 | Church Leadership, Personal Growth
As we live in this fallen world, we encounter all kinds of sinfulness and its effects, both within and without. If we are not mindful, we lose hope as we suffer difficulties and trials. If we lose hope, we quit praying, thinking there is no use. And if we stop...
by Bill Elliff | Aug 2, 2019 | Church Leadership, Personal Growth
I have dealt with dissenters in the church for a good portion of my ministry, particularly during the first thirty years. Gratefully, since founding The Summit Church twenty-one years ago, I have not dealt with any of this in our church (so I now know it’s possible!),...
by Bill Elliff | Jul 19, 2019 | Church Leadership, Personal Growth
Every day, we make manifold decisions based on what we believe to be true. We must decide what voice we think offers the greatest reality: God’s Word or man’s? A Weather Prediction Paul was a prisoner of the Roman army and was headed for Rome. On the way, God...
by Bill Elliff | Jul 5, 2019 | Church Leadership, Personal Growth
When is a train free to run? When it’s on the tracks or off the tracks? On the tracks it can move at incredible speed, with perfect freedom, doing exactly what it was created to do. Off the tracks, it’s unable to run as designed. We were designed, as C. S. Lewis said,...
