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  • Lead Summit Day 2 Session 1 – Paul Scanlon

    The best is yet to come as more to do with us than we think it does. The Blessing of Low Maintenance People Low maintenance people are not celebrated but they are a gift to the local church. The benefit of having been around for decades is that you can see patterns. Everybody loves low…

  • Leadership Summit Day One Eve Mtg – Phil Pringle

    Four Things That Are The Essence of Leadership 1. You Have A Vision: 2. You Are A Team Builder: 3. You Are A Decision Maker: make a decision to start something new when you get home from this conference. Your ceiling is the level of your ability to make difficult decisions. This is including confrontation…

  • Leadership Summit Day One Session 3 Paul Scanlon

    Leadership Elective Paul Scanlon Building A Solution Oriented Leadership John 6:5-13 Jesus greatest legacy and ours too is the teaching that produces the ability to renew your mind. Moving in the Supernatural requires faith but not necessarily thought. Lasting change is a thinking issue not a faith issue. Every revolution is a thinking revolution before…

  • Lead Summit Day 1 Session 1 – Paul Scanlon

    The Lead Summit Kicked off today hosted by Pastor Dave Gilpin and Hope City Church in Sheffield. It is one of my favourite conferences and each year we take a small team from our Church. Over the years these conferences have proved usually beneficial. Here are my notes from day one session one, be sure…

  • Margin, How Successful People Work Less and Achieve More

    As part of my research for the current sermon series at Christian Life Church I read the following article which I thought you would find very insightful and helpful. As co-founder of Hotwire.com and CEO of Zillow for the last seven years, 39-year-old Spencer Rascoff fits most people’s definition of success. As a father of…

  • The High Price of Constantly Checking Your Email

    Ron Friedman writing on the Harvard Business Review blog has a beef with people who constantly check their email. And you know what? He’s got a point. Friedman says, “Shifting our attention from one task to another, as we do when we’re monitoring email while trying to read a report or craft a presentation, disrupts…

  • 3 Helpful Steps For Setting Good Targets

            In the last year our network of churches (Groundlevel) has begun a process of developing, alongside partners in South Africa and the USA, a program for churches which we have together called GHK. GHK stands for: Great Leaders, Healthy Churches, Kingdom Advancement.  The first wave of this program involves an evaluation…

  • Why Changing Perception Is Critical

    “Action is not the result of intentional reasoned thought but passion.” – James K A Smith. Smith who is a philosopher and theologian is making the point that we are primarily shaped more by the imagination than the intellect. Therefore it is the stories that we inhabit and not the arguments we believe that give…

  • Our Need For We

    We are the I Generation. Sociologists call what is happening in our world, ‘The Rampant Individualisation of Society.’ The focus is me. This posture has crept into our Spirituality and today, on my 50th Birthday, I thought I would write about my passion, The Church and specifically OUR NEED FOR WE. Aristotle believed that unless we can…

  • Artist at Work

    This post was first shared on Jamesclear.com There is a interesting story about how Pablo Picasso, the famous Spanish artist, developed the ability to produce remarkable work in just minutes. 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…