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Woman Sues Chocolate Company
Our country is awash with frivolous lawsuits. I just read this one today about a woman who filed a lawsuit in Chicago against the Ghirardelli's Chocolate Company because while she was in the bathroom, she noticed a man looking into the woman's bathroom through a hole in the trash receptacle that the …
Jack Hayford doesn’t set goals.
Christianity Today has an interesting article on its website about setting goals. Particularly, it is Jack Hayford's own perspective on goal setting-he doesn't do it! Here's the link to the article: Why I Don't Set Goals Here's a quote from the article: What are your primary goals for the …
10 Guiding Financial Principles
I saw this over at kluth.org: The following 10 church policies and principles were developed by Brian Kluth and the church elders for use at Harvest Community Church: Preamble At the church leadership meeting on January 6th, the following written financial policies and principles were …
Visiting Lafayette This Weekend
I just wanted to send out a quick note to all of you to let you know that Jen, the kids, and I will be visiting Lafayette this weekend. If all works out well, we will plan on meeting with some people who are interested in possibly joining us. We will also be looking at some of the housing available …
028-09 — Start Where You Are
Nehemiah 1:11b This is the final message in this series, and to close it out, I want to motivate you to start where you are and do something for God. You are not a victim, an outcast, or a second-class citizen. Listen up to find out why. Download Now Subscribe to this series by dragging this link to …
CECL Session #5 Day 5
Last Full Day Today was the last full day of our CECL session. We will have a morning session tomorrow, but that's it. What made today kinda special was that we had very little in the way of official stuff to do. We didn't have any sessions until 11AM, so we used the extra morning time to review …
CECL Session #5 Day 4
Today's sessions were based on a really interesting concept. The goal was to model for us a tool for increasing the effectiveness of sermons and a method for increasing the effectiveness of worship services and then to have a worship service tonight based on those things. Pre-Sermon Dialogue …
How to be a good friend
One of our tasks for this week at CECL was to bring a video of a sermon we have recently preached at our church. In our peer group, we watched each other's videos and then offered encouragement to each other regarding what we thought was the other pastor's unique excellence in sermon …
How to be a good friend
One of our tasks for this week at CECL was to bring a video of a sermon we have recently preached at our church. In our peer group, we watched each other's videos and then offered encouragement to each other regarding what we thought was the other pastor's unique excellence in sermon …
Americans want to give more power to religious leaders
According to a report by the BBC, people in the United States would like to give more power to religious leaders! Here's a brief excerpt from the article: Forty percent of people in the US would like religious leaders to be given more power, a Gallup International poll commissioned by the BBC …
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CECL Session #5 Day 3
Basic elements of a leadership development program Danny Wallen finished up his sessions yesterday by giving us a couple of different models for developing leaders. I'll just quote them here: The Two Track Analogy There are four parts of leadership development that work together like the …
A Plan for Leadership Development
My assignment from yesterday's CECL session was to write up a preliminary plan for leadership development in a church. Considering that I am preparing to start a new church, I thought in terms of developing leaders from the "ground up" so to speak. It's a rough draft, but this is what I have so …
A Plan for Leadership Development
My assignment from yesterday's CECL session was to write up a preliminary plan for leadership development in a church. Considering that I am preparing to start a new church, I thought in terms of developing leaders from the "ground up" so to speak. It's a rough draft, but this is what I have so …
CECL Session #5 Day 2
I was pretty critical about yesterday's sessions because I was expecting something different than what was actually delivered. Today's sessions were much better in the sense that my expectations for the day were actually surpassed by the sessions themselves. There were two basic things that …
CECL Session #5 Day 1
The point of this week's session is to help us pastors develop additional skills in "Transformational Preaching," so the main presenters for the week are Dr. Michael Quicke, a professor of preaching and communication at Northern Seminary in Lombard, Illinois, and Lori Carrell who is a professor of …