by Life Action | Jul 21, 2017 | Church Leadership, Personal Growth, Say Yes to God
I’ve made many attempts to have a faithful devotional life, but they were always short-lived. I suppose I expected the discipline of Bible study to be easy for a Christian. When it was difficult and overwhelming for me, I felt discouraged and defeated. In the process...
by Bill Elliff | Jul 14, 2017 | Church Leadership, Personal Growth
One of the great hopes of all our lives as followers of Christ is that we can become MORE: more useful, more loving, more gracious, more generous, more like Jesus, a better witness, etc. Apollos was such a man. We only have five verses in the whole Bible that describe...
by Bill Elliff | Jun 30, 2017 | Church Leadership, Personal Growth
Integrity is moral soundness. I have a steel girder in my office that I look at often. It has a slight imperfection—like someone bumped their head on it—but the massive girder is solid and has been standing for over 25 years. Spiritual and moral integrity does not...
by Life Action | Jun 23, 2017 | Church Leadership, Personal Growth, Say Yes to God
In August of 1989, I found myself in the bush country of East Africa, living in a tent in front of a mud-and-sticks church building, six miles from the nearest settlement. As one who had been involved in mission trips before, I had learned to anticipate swallowing...
by Bill Elliff | Jun 16, 2017 | Church Leadership, Personal Growth
Every great leader is a humble servant, but also a strong, confident leader. But this strange mixture of humble confidence comes from a source that is deeper than most realize. One of the great leadership passages in the Bible is the historical account of Jesus...
by Life Action | Jun 9, 2017 | Church Leadership, Personal Growth, Say Yes to God
I’ve discovered an easy way to get my family into God’s Word while getting God’s Word into my family. Very simply: I let Scripture set the agenda for our prayers. After all, the most powerful prayer unit in the world is you, praying with your family, in line with the...
