by Bill Elliff | Feb 12, 2016 | Church Leadership, Personal Growth
One of the greatest battles we must fight as leaders and ministers of the gospel of Jesus Christ is discouragement. It can hang on us like a winter cloud, depleting us of our joy and robbing us of the confidence we need to lead others. We have no burden for revival...
by Bill Elliff | Jan 15, 2016 | Church Leadership, Personal Growth
The LORD said to Samuel, “Do not look at his appearance or at the height of his stature, because I have rejected him; for God sees not as man sees, for man looks at the outward appearance, but the LORD looks at the heart.” (1 Samuel 16:7 NASB) One of the young...
by EM Bounds | Nov 13, 2015 | Church Leadership, Personal Growth
In the Christian system, unction is the anointing of the Holy Ghost that separates and qualifies men for God’s work. Unction is the one divine enablement by which the preacher accomplishes the saving ends of preaching. Without it, no true spiritual results are...
by Brian Hedges | Nov 13, 2015 | Church Leadership, Personal Growth
Several years ago I read Patrick Lencioni’s The Five Temptations of a CEO, a “leadership fable” about Andrew O’Brien, who is approaching his one-year anniversary as CEO of Trinity Systems. Faced with his accountability for the company’s poor fiscal results, Andrew...