Christine Caine’s “Must Haves” to Sustain Your Success in Ministry (Part 3)

December 14, 2009

Here’s the final part to Christine Caine’s talk to the staff at Celebration Church. Read Part 1 and 2 here and here. Passion is Not a Job or Obligation You’ll go further on fumes of passion than one million dollars. With passion, you’ll get more buy in from people and volunteers. At this level, no [...]

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How to Keep Updated on New Posts

December 6, 2009

I did some minor housekeeping with the email and RSS links used to subscribe to this blog. If you’re not subscribed, why not click here to subscribe via email? You’ll get emails whenever I make a new post. No need to manually check the site. Just kick back, relax and let me do all the [...]

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Christine Caine’s “Must Haves” to Sustain Your Success in Ministry (Part 2)

November 16, 2009

This is Part 2 from Christine Caine’s talk to the staff at Celebration Church. You can read Part 1 here. Submission Isn’t Negative Sub simply means under the mission of the church. Similar to how a submarine goes under water. There is always a bigger picture. Realizing the bigger picture is a critical point to [...]

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Christine Caine’s “Must Haves” to Sustain Your Success in Ministry (Part 1)

November 9, 2009

This past weekend at Celebration Church we had the privilege of having Christine Caine (Twitter, Facebook) guest speak. Not only did she speak at our weekend services, but she took some time out to speak to the staff. What she had to share to the staff was an extremely timely word to anyone involved in [...]

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8 Insights from Andy Stanley on Stating Vision Simply

November 2, 2009

Last night I listened to the latest episode of Andy Stanley’s Leadership Podcast (iTunes, RSS) titled Stating Vision Simply. It fit well with another article I read from Joel on Software called Figuring out what your company is all about. I’ve decided I like Andy Stanley. ;) And I always knew I liked what Joel [...]

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There’s No “Stop” in “Go”

October 4, 2009

Who has been approached by a homeless guy asking for money? And in the course of the few seconds you’re asking or thinking to yourself: Does he really need the money for bus fare? Am I safe? Is he going to club me over the head? Is he going to use this money to buy [...]

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I am afraid

June 29, 2009

I don’t know why, but I’m afraid. I’m afraid of responsibility. I’m afraid of leading people. I’m afraid of being outwardly passionate. I’m afraid of accepting the authority given to me. I’m afraid of stepping up my game. I’m afraid of my life being out of balance. I’m afraid. I’m paralyzed. 2 Corinthians 11:30 (NIV) [...]

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Flourishing with Roots

May 19, 2009

1 Samuel 14:7 (NIV) 7 “Do all that you have in mind,” his armor-bearer said. “Go ahead; I am with you heart and soul.” (emphasis added) Ruth 1:16-17 (NIV) 16 But Ruth replied, “. . . Where you go I will go . . . . 17 Where you die I will die . . [...]

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Are You Heading into Eternity Leaving Behind an Eternity?

April 12, 2009

If you haven’t read the essay in my previous post, I would encourage you to do that first. That essay really resonates with me and affirms the cry of my heart. Jesus needs us to be tenacious about his Gospel. Our lives need to be in a continual battle to ensure we are in line [...]

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