Spiritual Life

Leaders do not follow where the path may lead; they go instead where there is no path, and leave a trail.

If we want a different story to begin to unfold for us today, then we must understand two very important truths about our life with Christ. In this battle God secured the final victory, and God provides everything we need for daily victory.

Perhaps as a leader I should expect to learn from God more in the storms of life rather than in the peaceful, quiet times. What would you say, Mary?

We, the church leaders, teach so many truths such as salvation, victorious Christian life, worship, prayer, evangelism, giving to the Lord etc., to our congregations, but do we teach them the fear of God?

Pastors and church leaders are on the front lines of the battle, where the smell of smoke, sweat, and blood always hangs in the air.

Jesus could have used any kind of power in His leadership, but He chose to be a servant.

I am convinced that God has His dreams for our ministries, just as He has for us as individuals, and that He is willing to download them to us, at least in a “fuzzy” form.

Hurry and noise and incessant busyness are enemies of a healthy spiritual life.

Amid everything else Charles Taylor’s A Secular Age attempts to accomplish, at its base, it helps the spiritual leader see that our modern society has come to embrace “self-sufficient humanism.”

The big deal Jesus made about gratefulness in the one leper (and the lack thereof in the nine), points to the high value He places on a grateful heart. I believe leaders above all should evidence a grateful heart. Evaluate your level of gratefulness against these three gratefulness indicators.

Can you think of a time when you were quite simply overwhelmed with events and circumstances in your life? In this article, Nick Franks highlights two important principles from Scripture to encourage anyone currently in a season like this.

Meaningful time with God can be found in the Sabbath moments that punctuate our day – if we are willing to look for them and treat them in that way. How do we best consecrate these islands of solace in our seas of tumult? I suggest we have ready a one-minute prayer.