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Leveraging Talent and Staffing to Vision
Change is inevitable for all churches, but intentional change is often resisted, painful, and slow. One way to lead a church through intentional change with as little conflict as possible is to get the church to buy into a vision. Chris Gambill of the Center for...
As Demands of Ministry Grow, A Coach Can Help
I know an 83-year-old tennis player who has one arm. He has a bit of a belly. He doesn't run well anymore. But if I'm choosing a partner for doubles, I'm choosing Jack. Jack knows more about the game of tennis than anyone else I know. He doesn't beat himself. He's...
Finding Our Way With the Magi: A Daily Guide Through the Season of Advent
For those who want something deeper than the commercialized trappings of the Advent season, Finding Our Way With the Magi gives readers a daily opportunity to be spiritually challenged, encouraged, inspired, and confronted with Jesus admonitions to live out our faith...
Keeping Success in Perspective
This article won a $1000 Award of Outstanding Merit from the Amy Foundation in May of 2012. In the last few years the economy has made the phrase "downward mobility" too familiar for too many people. To a person trying to make a living it means taking a pay cut,...
What’s On Your Bucket List?
This article won a $1000 Award of Outstanding Merit from the Amy Foundation in 2009. In the movie "The Bucket List," Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman play the roles of two aging men who both get the news that they have terminal cancer. Nicholson plays Edward, a...
People Don’t Forget What You are Made Of
This article won a $1000 Award of Outstanding Merit from the Amy Foundation in May of 2006. One of the stories my grandfather tells on himself comes from his younger years, a time in life when he wasn' t as concerned about his fellow man as the person he later became....
Come More Often Lord
This article won a $1000 Award of Outstanding Merit from the Amy Foundation in May of 2006. Mutual of Omaha's "Wild Kingdom" recently ran a story of an incredibleevent that occurred in Northern Kenya. It was reported that a lioness had adopted a baby oryx antelope....
The Greatest Makeover of All
This article won a $1000 Award of Outstanding Merit from the Amy Foundation in May of 2005. In the reality shows that dominate much of prime time television these days, "The Swan" is the most recent to make a splash. Women who qualified for the show had to leave...
Struggling With Boundaries for Your Teenager
This article won a $1000 award of Outstanding Merit from the Amy Foundation in May of 2004. Through twenty-one years of marriage, Jim and Kate had learned how to communicate, to solve problems, and to compromise. Marriage, they learned, is a give-and-take relationship...
Stay Away from the Wall
This article won a $1000 Award of Outstanding Merit from the Amy Foundation in May of 2001. "Time Magazine" recently reported that the Guinness Book of World Records has awarded Danni Ashe the award for being the Most Downloaded Woman. If that term is not in your...