by Bill Elliff | Mar 10, 2017 | Church Leadership, Personal Growth
Those who settle this issue become eternally useful and unbelievably satisfied. They are the heroes in this life who have come to embrace these 32 words: “Am I in God’s place? As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good in order to bring about...
by Bill Elliff | Feb 24, 2017 | Church Leadership, Personal Growth
When Jesus showed up on the scene, He began to explain how His new kingdom would operate. It was so counter-cultural and counter-intuitive that anyone listening knew the only way they could live like this was with divine intervention. Of all the statements in this...
by Bill Elliff | Feb 10, 2017 | Church Leadership, Personal Growth
“Diotrephes, who loves to be first among them …” (3 John 9 NASB). How would you like to be the man who is immortalized in Scripture as a really bad leader? Cain, Saul, Balaam, Ananias, and Judas all fall in this category. Their lives went down in history, not as...
by Bill Elliff | Jan 26, 2017 | Church Leadership, Personal Growth
As he often did at the end of his letters, Paul left the Thessalonians some rapid-fire bullets of instruction. Any one of these commands would change us. But just think of what your life would be like this week if you simply followed all four of these instructions in...
by Bill Elliff | Jan 12, 2017 | Church Leadership, Personal Growth
Therefore, since we have so great a cloud of witnesses surrounding us, let us also lay aside every encumbrance and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, fixing our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of...
by Bill Elliff | Dec 15, 2016 | Church Leadership, Personal Growth
Life is filled with overwhelming noise. Our old and constant Enemy orchestrates a cacophony of confusion around us. If we are not careful, we will fall right into his trap, and the results are disastrous. The secret of David’s spiritual success was his determined...
