Category: creators
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As the story goes, Picasso was walking though the market one day when a woman spotted him. She stopped the artist, pulled out a piece of paper and said, “Mr. Picasso, I am a fan of your work. Please, could you do a little drawing for me?” Picasso smiled and quickly drew a small, but…
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There’s plenty of books, websites, and leadership resources that talk about the importance of encouragement. As Goethe said in 1768, “Instruction does much, but encouragement everything.” The following example comes from Phil Cooke who is a media producer, speaker and writer. Some time ago, our team was called into a major, national media ministry because…
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Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Is a person whose memory is often presented in a kind of secularised version. It would be no exaggeration to say that Dr. King is presented as one of the heroic crusaders for “truth, justice, and the American way,” with the civil rights movement in view as the specific focus. This version…
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I think in our churches today it is imperative that we have a culture of raising and releasing our own and not rejecting our own.
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In recent years much has been said about not needing the title “leader” to be a leader. You don’t have to be the “Director” or “Manager” or whatever that title is at your organisation to lead. Just because you aren’t a “leader” on the org chart doesn’t mean you can’t lead in your role, that’s…
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Decades before Makoto (“Mako”) Fujimura became America’s most successful evangelical fine artist — and even longer before he advised Martin Scorsese on the director’s new movie, Silence — an unplanned turn down a darkened museum hall in Tokyo defined his artistic calling. Awaiting him there were dozens of fumi-e, bronze and wooden tiles bearing an…
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According to studies cited in Timothy D Wilsons book ReDirect-Changing the stories we live by, there are three ingredients that contribute more than anything else to human happiness. I have commented on all three below and how all three are connected to a healthy life of faith. 1. MEANING: Finding meaning. The better we understand and explain…
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This article first appeared at http://newlife.id.au/prominent-biblical-scholars-on-women-in-ministry/ Some Christians think that only people who have a “loose approach to scripture” can believe that women should be leaders and teachers in the church. I strongly doubt that any evangelical Christian would regard these scholars and theologians as having a loose approach to scripture, and yet each of them…
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For 15 years two Stanford Professors, James Baron and Michael Hannan, collected data and studied high tech start ups in Silicon Valley. They were intrigued to discover the five distinct cultures that were represented by the start ups and also to observe the performance of these distinct cultures over time. Here are the 5 Cultures…
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When you are a person of vision and wanting to see things move forward it can be the most frustrating thing in the world to feel stuck. This is true in every field of work and life. Helping to identify why you are stuck is a huge help. Here are 7 reasons why churches get…
