by Bill Elliff | Apr 21, 2017 | Church Leadership, Personal Growth
“God is easy to live with,” Tozer said, and he’s right. The most amazing attribute of God to me is His willingness to be understood, His self-disclosure. He is waiting to be known. If you don’t want a relationship with someone, you go dark. You are unwilling to be...
by Bill Elliff | Apr 7, 2017 | Church Leadership, Personal Growth
It’s one of the clearest signs of spiritual strength. If we are going to be healthy and promote a healthy spiritual community/family, we need to let people know how we’re doing. This should be done appropriately and for the right purpose. But many don’t ever open up....
by Bill Elliff | Mar 23, 2017 | Church Leadership, Personal Growth
Let everyone who is godly pray to You in a time when You may be found; surely in a flood of great waters they will not reach him (Psalm 32:6 NASB). God has gone to extraordinary lengths to make Himself accessible to us. Intimacy with God is readily available, and He...
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...
