Leadership Drift

by | Mar 30, 2017 | Leadership Nuggets: Archives

“Very often the focus of a leader and a congregation determines their destiny.  Too often the focus is on self-preservation rather than living into one’s faith with courage, hope, and desire to be on mission with God.” – Eddie Hammett When God saved us and...

by | Mar 30, 2017 | An Encouraging Word to Pastors: Archives

Pastors, we are engaged in one of the most noble yet frustrating contests ever known to man: Contesting with the devil while leading a local congregation of Christians.  In the heat of the battle we sometimes lose our perspective, our thought process becomes...

Landfill Harmonics

by | Mar 30, 2017 | Pastoral Nuggets: Archives

In his book, “The End of Me,” author Kyle Idleman tells about a town in Paraguay, South America, which is built around a garbage dump.  Every day 1,500 tons of trash is added to this dump.  The people of the town make their living by scavenging through the dump...

Hope is Not a Strategy

by | Mar 9, 2017 | Leadership Nuggets: Archives

As leaders and as human beings, we all have been guilty of verbalizing our hope regarding certain situations in our lives.  We say things like:  I hope you get to feeling better; I hope she gets the job; I hope they work out their problems; I hope you pass the course;...