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Great insights from John Holm.... In my work as a professional coach, and with the help of others, I’ve learned what makes a successful leader. Many people feel that it has to do with technical and/or strategic skill sets or knowledge. Knowledge is important, but it’s not central. Others believe it is critical thinking skills. That too, is important, but it’s not what I’ve found to be at the core of a great leader. What is needed in every great leader is for the leader to be “well-defined.” I’ve rarely coached someone who decided that more knowledge or more skill would help them become a successful leader. Instead, what they needed to learn was more about themselves. A Well-Defined Leader is one who is internally aligned. What they say complements what they do. It looks like this: 1. Their thinking rules over their emotions. 2. They’re a non-anxious presence. 3. They have firm, appropriate boundaries. 4. They have clarity of self and their own goals. 5. They ...

The following is a great article written by Rob Pochek. I'd wish someone would have shared this with me over a decade ago. I was probably to immature to listen but it's good advise anyways. I left my breakfast meeting with a young pastor and realized, with a measure of sadness, I was no longer a "young pastor." He was facing a number of ministry challenges that seemed very familiar to me. As I shared with him some of the lessons I had learned, he remarked, "I wish I had known this three years ago." It occurred to me that the lessons I shared with him were ones I wish I had been told when a small country church allowed a rough, unrefined college student to get his feet wet in ministry. As I look back, there are (at least) five things I wish I had been aware of when I was just starting out: 1. You are pastoring a parade. The first time I had a family leave the church I was leading, I was personally hurt. I thought I had really messed up as a pastor,...

 Night Celebrating Biblical Masculinity February 16th, 2013 7:00 - 8:30 P.M. Miller Park Community Center - 400 Leisure Ln. Winston Salem, NC 27103 Man Up is a combined effort of several ministries in the Triad area including: Empowering men to be a force for the Kingdom of God. Helping men understand the heart God has given them. One of the main goals of Love Out Loud is coordination: Understanding how local churches and Christian organizations are working towards the flourishing of our city, coordinating for maximum use of resources and collaborating for deepest impact and loudest witness...

"No-one wants acorns, but everyone wants oaks." ~ Steve Fowler "The greatest temptation of our time is impatience, in its full, original meaning: refusal to wait, undergo, suffer.” ~ Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy For my yearly read-thru the Bible I choose to go the "chronological" route this time. Thank you https://www.youversion.com/ As you can imagine, it's difficult to read the Bible in chronological order without beginning in the book of Genisis. As I've been re-reading some of the incredible early stories of our faith, I have been drawn to a common theme throughout the entire 50 chapters of Genesis that is still as prevalent today as it was then... The "sin of impatience". Or the more modern wording, "I want it now". Because none of us want to recognize impatience as a sin right? John Piper puts it this way, "Impatience is a form of unbelief. It's what we begin to feel when we start to doubt the wisdom of God...

JANUARY 2013 Jan 16 :: Children’s Pastors Conference (Orlando, FL) Speakers: Reggie Joiner, Jim Wideman, Beth Guckenberger, Craig Jutila, Phil Vischer Length: 4 days Cost: $493 Jan 22 :: GCA Church Planting and Renewal Conference (Orlando, FL) Speakers: Josh Bales, RuthAnn Bastone, Stu Batstone, Tim Brister, Tim Cain, Bob Cargo, Steve Childers, Charles Cooper, Sean Cordell, Reggie Kidd, Larry Kirk, Fred Marsh, Randy Nabors, Bob Orner, Randy Pope, Ted Powers, Tami Resch, Tim Rice, Ted Sinn, Ed Stetzer, Mike Tilley, Tom Wood Length: 4 days Cost: $450 FEBRUARY 2013 Feb 6 :: Next Level Conference (Savannah, GA) Speakers : Cam Huxford, Jon Weece, Jim Tune Length : 3 days Cost : $110 Feb 13 :: C3 Conference (Dallas, TX) Speakers : Ed Young, Judah Smith, Steven Furtick, Carl Lentz, Steve Kelly, Lee Strobel, Dr. Ed Young, Kevin Gerald, At Boshoff, Stovall Weems, Terry Crist, Leo Bigger, Buddy Cremeans, Pedro Garcia, Dave Martin, Steve Munsey, Willie George, ...

   There's a game I like to play called, "What did I like when I was my kid's age?" For Joshua it's easy, he's three and enjoys peeing in his pants and watching cartoons, just like dad at his age. Maria is a bit tougher due to the fact I was never a seven year old girl. Substitute Barbie for Luke Skywalker and I guess we're not that much different. We always hear that kids today are growing up way too fast, or at least faster then their parents and grandparents did. But a realization hit me this weekend that makes we question that theory. For our recent trip to Atlanta, I loaded up the cd player (yes we still listen to cd's) with all kinds of tunes for our listening pleasure. One of my all-time favorite artist, and the last performer left on my concert bucket list, is Billy Joel. "The Essential Billy Joel" was one of the first cd's in the changer. Now Billy and I go way back. As we were jamming out to some "Uptown Girl...