His voice is always groveling for first place. He's never content to be in the room - oh no, he does all he can to insure his is the loudest voice in the room! You know that one, the one who towers in belligerence and whose bellicose thunder rattles the deepest chambers of your soul. The one whose incessant bullying assails your good conscience and his voice grates on your nerves far more than a caterwauling feline at midnight.
Read MoreThe People Who Don't Forget!→
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Whatever you may think about forgetfulness, to 'forget' is to lose the memory of what has happened previously. We know that our memories tend to fade with age. We all realize that our cognizance seems to lag the older we get. But I believe there is a 'forget' that is far more devastating than our recollections of achildhood summer trip or yesteryear's birthday party with family and friends.
Read MoreWill You Help Me?→
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THANK YOU for taking a moment of your time to learn how you can help. It will take less than 120 seconds. I NEED YOUR HELP.
"How Can I help," you ask? Four ways.
Read MoreA Leader's TEST Will Always Include...→
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Leader's do well to remember that God considers our passionate pursuit of His glory as our pursuit of His holiness! His Perfection.
In our Godly pursuits, our 'hunger' is most often characterized by our enthusiasm.
Read MoreThe Artistry of a Wordsmith!
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Sadly, many leaders have been convinced, albeit erroneously, that wordsmithing is an endangered art form...
Read MoreThe Influence of Our Viewpoint!→
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The intangibles of our leadership are the qualities and material from which our future is built and our successes are manifested.
Read MoreThe Difference IN Your SIGHT!→
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Hagar, when in her desperate plight from the House of Promise, found herself at the end of the proverbial rope. She's a desperate mother seeking shelter and salvation for her son, Abram's firstborn. Ishmael represents Abram's efforts to engineer an answer to a God-promise, to provide logic to a God-pledged miracle.
Read MoreThe Most Difficult Journey!
/The most difficult journey you will ever take is the one that is accepted without the purchase of an airfare, sea fare, or toll.
Read MoreAuthentic Christianity!→
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In the Shakespearean masterpiece Hamlet, Polonius said, "This above all: to thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man." This is the last piece of advice that Shakespeare's character Polonius gives to his son Laertes regarding living a proper life. There is great wisdom in Polonius' warnings. His measured pronouncements and wise counsel warn against the disadvantage of living a life of intemperate pursuits; constantly chasing the lust-craze of self-satisfaction - living far too busy pursuing self-interest.
Read MoreLIVING IN "THIS" HEBREW NEW YEAR!→
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We live in momentous times! Nations are now defining their futures. They are deciding their judgment. They are determining their peril. They are shaping their fate. All of it determined by their allegiance to God or to His Antichrist.
Read MoreWhen your god is prodigal - miserably absent and eerily silent!→
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With the only exception being Christianity, the many different gods of every other world religion have been strikingly prodigal - forever truant from their followers, absent in life's circumstances and silent in the midst of their followers steadfast devotion! Jesus of Nazareth, the Christos-Savior of all mankind, is the splendor of Heaven and the love of God given to all mankind who will believe, for He alone is real and relevant to every aspect of our daily lives.
Read MoreTHE INCREASE OF VIOLENCE TOWARD AUTHORITY IN OUR CULTURE!→
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This week has been a bloody week for law enforcement officers in our country! There is an apparent increase in violence, mayhem, and murder in our society. Let us all pray for our law enforcement officers and officials more now, than anytime before.
Read MoreLEADERS RESOURCE: BE CAREFUL OF THE WELL-INTENTIONED DRAGONS!→
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Marshall Shelley wrote the incredible book (that should adorn the shelf of every pastor and church leader), "Well-intentioned dragons: ministering to problem people in the Church." Marshall draws from the Book of Job, chapter 41, verse 1 and 21: "Can you catch Leviathan with a hook or put a noose around its jaw? Its breath would kindle coals, for flames shoot from its mouth." Job 41:1,21
Read MoreThe Blood Still Matters!→
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The burgeoning Beast is making his last play for the souls of men; his time short, he knows he's about to meet his damnable end! The enemy is banking on a sleeping church and a world wise only to its immoral lusts. But there is a sound a stirring, much like our father's before. In crowded upper-rooms, basements, stadiums, and large and small spaces...there is a generation crying like the Greeks of old, "We would see Jesus!"
Read MoreSeven Keys For Doing Great Things!→
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In the Book of Nehemiah, we discover that life is a vocation. In fact, the Apostle Paul wrote to the Ephesians, "I beseech you that you would walk worthy of the vocation wherewith you are called" ( Eph. 4:1). Throughout Scripture, we often see that a man's trade is the genesis of his calling, giving his work dignity.
Read MoreThe Adventure Is Designed to NOT Leave You Unchanged!→
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The adventure of Faith fathoms the deep of our soul while Truth plumbs the secrets of our spirit. Trust seeks to reach the far recesses of our thoughts and illuminate every philosophical shadow that each of our life experiences have created. With military precision faith marches to the fore of our hearts demanding, with the urgent passion of an Inquisition, that our hearts seize our restless spiritual conscience with the naked honesty of our need.
Read MoreLet Everything Be Done Decently and IN Order!→
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The Apostle Paul, when writing his first epistle to the Corinthian Church commands, "Let everything be done decently and in order" (I Cor. 14:40).
Read MoreThe Danger of Distrust, The Fruit of Self-Reliance, and The Sin of Illiteracy!→
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I am excited about a new project that we're launching to combat the rising tide of Biblical Illiteracy, we're calling it "OneDay Seminary" at the Church of Champions. In a recent report released by the Barna Group and the American Bible Society,
Read MoreTHE "IT" FACTOR!→
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This morning, while in my study praying and preparing for a ministry engagement tomorrow evening I began to reflect upon those people who have radically affected my life with their bold exploits and faith-filled actions. I grew up in an era when Comic Book heroes exploits were confined to paperback books
Read MoreThe Power of Focus!→
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In this hour of a million or more distractions, when influence screams for our attention from every portal of information, it is incredibly important for us to keep our focus. The more distraction attempts to ramp up its noise and blister the peace and solitude of our souls, the more we must sharpen our focus and hold fast our attention on the objective of our race.
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