I have served in Christian leadership for more than 50 years. I often felt insecure and struggled with knowing how to make decisions and lead effectively, especially when there were differing viewpoints. One day one of our team members told me, “Go find a leader you trust and ask him to mentor you.” I took [...]
We must avoid comparison. After Jesus resurrection, He told Peter, “When you were younger you dressed yourself and went where you wanted; but when you are old you will stretch out your hands, and someone else will dress you and lead you where you do not want to go.” Jesus said this to indicate the [...]
A businessman sat in my office and shrugged in despair as he admitted, “I inherited my dad’s terrible temper, so I can’t help it when I blow up.” That same day a middle-aged woman told me, “My mother had terrible fears, and she passed them on to me. I guess I’m stuck with this problem.” [...]
Did you know that in 21 years, baseball great Babe Ruth hit 714 home runs but he struck out 1330 times? He struck out nearly twice as often as he hit a home run. He once said, “Never let the fear of striking out keep you from taking a swing.” John Creasy, a famous novelist [...]
Paul the apostle tells us: “and having done all, to stand.” (Eph. 6:13). Sometimes we feel like we have tried everything and nothing seems to change. That is when we need to just stand. We all go through difficult seasons in life; in our families, our health, our finances, our organizations, and in our nations. [...]
God’s will for our lives is to “give thanks in all circumstances; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you” (1 Thess. 5:18 RSV). The Bible teaches us that we are to thank God in everything, not for everything. This means that no matter what is going on, we are not [...]
A leader is an influencer. We are all called to lead in some way by influencing those around us. The Bible records that most leaders were not seeking a position of leadership when God intervened in their lives and called them. Some whom the LORD called, like Moses and Gideon, did not think they could [...]
I was driving down the road one day when a spirit of fear came on me like a cloud. I was paralyzed with fear. Immediately I was aware of what was happening. The enemy was trying to cause me to live by my feelings of fear rather than doing the things I knew God was [...]
Don’t be afraid to talk to yourself. I talk to myself all the time. The Bible says David talked to himself; he “encouraged himself in the Lord” (1 Samuel 30:6 KJV). Another time, in Psalms 103:1, we see David talking to himself, “Praise the Lord, O my soul; and all my inmost being, praise his [...]
I exhort first of all that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks be made for all men, for kings and all who are in authority, that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and reverence. For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior, who desires all men to be saved and to come to [...]