Seven Building Blocks for Leaders

As I read, it dawned on me that his journal is a storehouse of leadership insights. The first six chapters of Nehemiah ought to be required reading each year for all leaders as well as those who wish to be....In his book, I found seven essential skills that today’s Christian leaders can use as stones on which to build their own strategy for leadership.

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Life Without the Kicker

I asked him what he meant by “kicker.” My friend explained that a “kicker” was a hidden agenda. “Sometimes,” he said, “I get the feeling that the only reason Christians even talk to me is to get me to become a Christian. When you said that you were sorry for what Christians called me, I’ve heard it before but always with something else…a kicker.”I’ve thought a lot about what my ...

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Norm Nelson – May 2016 Newsletter

Dear Partner in Service, This is one of those times when I have to get right to the point in writing to you. As this goes to print, Cher and I have just completed a 72 hour trip to Beirut, Lebanon. After a brief stopover in London, we were joined by one of our sons and his high school-age daughter (one of 14 grandchildren of ours!)

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Run to the Bands of Love

Our heavenly Father often leads us with the cords of love; but how slow we are to run toward Him! How reluctantly we respond to His gentle impulses! He leads us to exercise a more simple faith in Him; but we have not yet learned to trust like Abraham. We do not leave our worldly cares with God, but, like Martha, we burden ourselves with much serving. Our meager faith ...

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Anchor for the Storm

No shadow comes without the light making a way No raging storm can ever defy one word of faith My heart remains sure in the wind, sure in the waves You are the anchor for my soul You won't let go I wish I could say I was a great bastion of spiritual stability and I wrote those words…but neither statement would be true.  Those verses come from one of my favorite ...

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Don’t Give in to Compromise.

I heard a story about a man who went out hunting and found a big brown bear. He had always wanted to shoot a bear, and he had just the right gun to do the job. So he got that bear in his sights and was beginning to squeeze the trigger. But just then, the bear turned around and said, “Excuse me. Isn’t it better to talk than to shoot? ...

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