- This is part of a series on the theme of servant leadership. – One of professional sports’ most legendary coaches, Pat Riley has motivated, taught and inspired his way up the NBA managerial ranks. He exemplifies what it means to be a leader, and athletes and businessmen alike could all learn something from this [...]
4Feb11
The Servant Leader
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1Feb11
Strategies for Purpose
- This is part of a series on the theme of purpose and passion. – In his popular book The Purpose Driven Church, Rick Warren articulates the importance of translating our purpose into practical strategies. Among other things, he suggests the following: Program around your purposes. Design a program to fulfill each of your purposes. [...]
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- This is part of a series on the theme of purpose and passion. – We’ve learned that, as godly leaders, our purpose in life needs to be directed toward God and his kingdom. Does that mean we sit idly by and wait for Christ’s return? No. The apostle Paul tells us in 2 Corinthians [...]
25Jan11
Pleasing God Rather than Others
- This is part of a series of highlights from My Utmost for His Highest by Oswald Chambers – • Being ambitious only to be pleasing to Him. I have to learn to relate everything to the master ambition, and to maintain it without any cessation. My worth to God in public is what I [...]
24Jan11
God’s Promises Breed Passion
- This is part of a series on the theme of purpose and passion. – What is it about some leaders? They seem to have that extra “Oohmph!” Their people are unusually productive, grievances from their area are infrequent and quality is high. People from other areas want to be transferred to their departments. What [...]
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20Jan11
Faithfulness in the Ordinary
- This is part of a series of highlights from My Utmost for His Highest by Oswald Chambers – • Beware of allowing yourself to think that the shallow concerns of life are not ordained of God; they are as much of God as the profound. 327 • A Christian worker has to learn how [...]
- This is part of a series on the theme of purpose and passion. – Relationships are the currency of heaven. Being rightly related to God and rightly related to others – this is true righteousness. God, who loved us first, makes it possible for us to love him. Loving him makes it possible for [...]
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17Jan11
Trust and Obedience
- This is part of a series of highlights from My Utmost for His Highest by Oswald Chambers – • Beware of the inclination to dictate to God as to what you will allow to happen if you obey Him. 11 • Many of us are loyal to our notions of Jesus Christ, but how [...]
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- This is part of a series on the theme of purpose and passion. – Biblically speaking, there are two things on this planet that are going to endure: people and the word of God. If we take God’s eternal word and invest it in eternal people, then we’re leveraging the temporal for eternity. We’re [...]
- This is part of a series of highlights from My Utmost for His Highest by Oswald Chambers – • If you have been shrewd in finding out the defects in others, remember that will be exactly the measure given to you. Life serves back in the coin you pay. Who of us would dare [...]
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