Greetings to you in the name of Jesus and Happy New Year! As The Leadership Institute launches into this new year, we wanted to provide you with an update on where we sense God leading us in 2020 and beyond. During the last few years, God has matured TLI from a retreat-based training organization to […]
About Troy Walling
A Personal Encouragement
On Christmas Eve morning, I received a lesson on vulnerability. Roscoe, our special needs son, is tethered full time to a feeding tube. He can’t feed himself. He relies on this plastic lifeline no more than a few millimeters wide to bring nourishment to his body. Of course, he also relies on my wife and […]
Bringing Our Movies to Life
John 11:17-27 New Revised Standard Version (NRSV) Jesus the Resurrection and the Life 17When Jesus arrived, he found that Lazarus had already been in the tomb four days. 18Now Bethany was near Jerusalem, some two miles away, 19and many of the Jews had come to Martha and Mary to console them about their brother. 20When Martha […]
How to Beat Procrastiholism
I’m going to work. I’m going to church. Both of these statements take our humanness and turn it into a place. Church is not a place and neither is work. We can easily see the error in this thinking about the church by simply looking at scripture. The church is human beings communing with Christ […]
Advent Reflections – Longing for Irresistibility (Fourth Monday of Advent – Christmas Eve)
Our Worship For Christmas Eve this Advent, let us worship this coming King through the scripture passages that tell of this miraculous Christmas story. Isaiah 7:14 (NIV) Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign: The virgin will conceive and give birth to a son, and will call him Immanuel. Malachi 3:1-4 (KJV) Behold, […]
Advent Reflections – Longing for Irresistibility (Fourth Sunday of Advent)
Our Worship For our final Sunday of Advent, let us worship the Lord’s loyal love for us. Psalm 89:1-4, 19-26 Common English Bible (CEB) A maskil[a] of Ethan the Ezrahite. 89 I will sing of the Lord’s loyal love forever. I will proclaim your faithfulness with my own mouth from one generation to the next. 2 That’s […]
Advent Reflections – Longing for Irresistibility (Third Saturday of Advent)
Our Worship John’s testimony was plain, simple, and direct. He wasn’t the Light, but he lived his life as a pointer to the Light. Praise God today for His light. Pray that your life would emanate light. John 1:6-8 Common English Bible (CEB) 6 A man named John was sent from God. 7 He came as a witness to […]
