Listen: The most important skill you can develop is the ability to listen. Bonhoeffer says in his book on Christian Community called “Life Together” So often Christians, especially preachers, think that their only service is always to have to “offer” something when they are together with other people. They forget that listening can be a […]
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Jesus doesn’t need our help, he’s pretty famous. He needs humble servants to live in a way that makes famous people want what they can’t have. We need to lose ourselves in spreading His fame not obsessing over how our fame can help Him out. Through our desire for personal fame we have made Jesus
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Leading for the long haul Lesson #1 Motivation: who benefits from what i do. – The My kids and the team I am apart of. – Motivation gets tested early – Need a kingdom mindset. No job in kids ministry is more important than the other – We are all building the kingdom by using
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What is teamwork? It is crazy messy scary awesome nutty fun amazing powerful and life changing. Paul talks about the church as a body. An interdependent structure that can only fully function when every part is doing their part. Ephesians 4:14-16 14 Then we will no longer be infants, tossed back and forth by the waves, and blown
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1 Corinthians 4:14-17 14 I am not trying to make you feel ashamed. I am writing this to give you a warning as my own dear children.15 For though you may have ten thousand teachers in Christ, you do not have many fathers. Through the Gospel I became your father in Christ Jesus,16 so I
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(above is a networking card designed by Donkey Design. I used this card in my session. Don-e and his team are fantastic. They are professionals. If you need great shirts at a good price check out his site. He does ) Stop collaborate and listen! My story – I started out looking for help with
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Violet Beauregarde – Wrong Priorities The next trap I think many parents fall into is the wrong priorities trap. We communicate to our kids every day what is important. By what we say but far more by what we do. I will start off by saying I am a very competitive person. I like to
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One of the things that derails many people in ministry is the issue of motivation. If you are going to make it for the long haul you need to have a Kingdom building mindset. You have to realize that I am here to build the Kingdom of God I am not hear to build my
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