Final Day 10: Application Areas to Consider Leadership: How will you lead with greater integrity and character? Focus on Jesus, daily repent and daily believe, regularly hold myself accountable to the spiritually mature, constantly seek to be filled with the Spirit, persistently pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, love, steadfastness, and gentleness, humble myself and practice purity […]
Read More WIWO: 1 Timothy Final Day 10: ApplicationDay 5: 1 Timothy 3:1–16 — Qualifications for Church Leadership Reading: Requirements for overseers and deacons, plus the church’s purpose Study Questions: 1. Observation: What character qualities are emphasised for church leaders? Blameless, sober-minded, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, gentle, diligent, dignified, full of integrity. 2. Interpretation: Why does Paul focus more on character than on skills […]
Read More WIWO: 1 Timothy Day 5 – 3:1–16 — QualifiedMy dear friend, the Captain, Kelvin, loves the character and book of Nehemiah. With good reason. It’s worthwhile considering the book as an insight into the heart of a man that loves God and loves the people of God and uses his position to bring about the much needed change. It was my privilege to […]
Read More For Reading Out Loud – Nehemiah 1Football is a sport I enjoy watching a lot. One of the components of the game that I find interesting is the role of leadership in the team. It’s not about whether you’re referred to as the captain or not, it’s about how your role affects others in the team. As a result, there are […]
Read More Dryden Links: Leadership Is A Matter of CharacterThere are certain issues in Christendom that arouse a great deal of argument and debate. Many of those issues don’t really merit that much in the way of attention. They’re side issues that, typical of us as a species, we blow out of proportion and hold so dearly as if it’s a matter of eternal […]
Read More Dryden Links: A View On Co-PastorsJesus Christ is a major reason for this blog. I blog here because I love Him and the life that I live always endeavours to be for His Name’s sake. Having been brought up in a very sheltered and comfortable background that was always limited in terms of scope, coming across blogs opened me up […]
Read More Dryden Links: What Kind of Leader?The health was deteriorating and the economc streams were drying out. Relationships that were dependable take a turn for the unusual. Familiar structures that provided a sense of security are turned upside down. In the midst of that, there is still the call to hold on and walk on as the Good Shepherd leads you. […]
Read More Journeyman Journal: As The Good Shepherd LeadsIt is such a lonely job, we’re told. There’s such a burden and a pressure that others cannot appreciate and don’t carry. It is such a task that often things have to be done to relieve that weight. It is certainly not to diminish the real weight of responsibility of those positions. There is a […]
Read More Does It Have To Be Lonely At The Top?Something’s wrong? Is there something wrong? Yes, there’s something wrong? How do you know? Is it just a feeling? Where are you getting that sense of something being wrong from? Does that suggest that there is such a thing as right and wrong? Who determines that? OK, something’s wrong. What could happen? It’s serious? It’s […]
Read More Who Rules? Dealing With What’s WrongThe walk that Moses has to this point has been fascinating. And it’s all been down to his obedience to the One who has given the divine call. He is rescued at birth from state-sponsored infanticide in one of the powerful countries in the known world. The infanticide is conducted against his people who have […]
Read More A Moses Profile: 10 – Raising the Banner
Life With CD 