Transformational Thinking
"Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength." (Mark 12:30)
Malcolm Webber
Perspectives
Articles in this category are written on various topics from the perspective of the writer.
Malcolm Webber
A God of Abundance
“At twilight you shall eat meat, and in the morning you shall be filled with bread. Then you shall know that I am the Lord your God.” (Exodus 16:12)
Skye Jethani
8 Ways for Expats Who Stay to Stay Well
At one point, I was a comer. One day in the future, I will be a leaver. But for the past twelve years, I have been a stayer. And I’ve passed through all the feelings: joy at new friends, sorrow at goodbyes, anger at goodbyes, self-righteous judgment of newbies, carelessness about my current circumstances, delight in my situation. It [...]
Rachel Pieh Jones
Five Kinds of Power
Leadership “power” is a capacity to influence others. There are five primary methods of doing this – but only one motivates authentic trust.
Malcolm Webber
The Interruptions Are Your Work
What if we saw interruptions as the real purpose of our lives? What if we saw them as a gift – an opportunity to be open to what God would have us do in that moment?
Rick James
Lessons Learned through Listening in China
Foreigners often have access to hearts that are afraid to open up to friends, family, and even church members. May God help us all to be “quick to hear” and “slow to speak,” (James 1:19), that we may better express the love of God, who invites us to “pour out [our] heart before Him” (Psalm 62:8).
DR. G. Wright Doyle
8 Mistakes We Make On Short-Term Mission Trips
We have an incredible opportunity to “go” in wisdom and with excellence because our King deserves our best.
Shane Pruitt
How to Say No to a Wonderful Opportunity
Saying “no,” even when you really want to do this, is going to require everything in you. Saying “no” when your ego and ambition and “sense of self” are all clamoring to seize this invitation is going to say worlds about your self-discipline and focus. Here are four thoughts on the subject.
Joe McKeever
How an Unknown Leadership Rock Star Changed the World
This article is a reflection on the life of Robert Walter, a Christian leader of courage, heart and brains.
Brent Hoover
What Did I Expect?
What do you hope to be different five years from now; how will you plan it into being?
Corey Olynik
Design: Turns More Deeply to God in Times of Suffering, Drawing Peace and Strength From Him.
Do you have difficulty turning more deeply to God in times of suffering? We can help.
Malcolm Webber
The Best Leaders are Broken Leaders
I don’t mean that we’re “broken” in the sense that we’re rendered useless by our imperfections. The opposite is actually true. We’re made more useful, and we discover our greatest purpose through our pain and suffering.
Brandon Cox
Are you a visionary leader?
Sometimes it is difficult to implement visionary leadership into our day-to-day tasks. However, visionary leadership is biblical leadership.
Fred Noble
7 Bottlenecks a Leader Must Avoid
Leaders should aim to never be a bottleneck in the process of building a healthy and growing organization. Here are seven bottlenecks a leader must avoid.
Ron Edmondson
Reasons to Make Waves When Introducing Change
Though leaders are responsible for maintaining peace, it is also their job to occasionally be the architects of plans that disrupt status quo and complacency. If you want to affect change, consider these three reasons why you should first start by dropping a well-placed pebble in the pond.
Phil Wood
5 Roadblocks of Good Leadership
It’s the roadblocks in leadership which we can avoid that tend to be most damaging. They detract from growth and destroy organizational health. If they aren’t addressed, it can set some leaders back months, years, even an entire career.
Ron Edmondson
Re-Considering 2020 as ‘Pure Joy’? Seriously?
As our idols come into the light we may be better able to let them go. 2020 can lead us to an appreciation of life, restored relations with those around us, recognizing personal strengths we did not know we had and realization of new possibilities. Such post-traumatic growth can be considered as pure joy.
Rick James
6 Reasons Churches are Taking Too Long to Find a New Pastor
More and more churches are struggling because they are going longer periods of time without a pastor. So why are search committees and appointment processes taking so much longer? I see six clear reasons.
Thom S. Rainer
Rip Currents and Leadership
Leaders are constantly dealing with their own version of rip currents – unseen, powerful forces that will pull them away from where God is leading them and their church or ministry. The force may be direct opposition that comes from within or outside the organization. Or it may be the subtler temptation to take the easy path.
Mike Bonem