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 […]
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 […]
East Wind
East Wind The east wind chills as it sweeps out the scars of the beautiful surface, still new. He?s opening the ice rink alone? Forty-three seasons, she?d always found a way to be there by his side, that is until today. None of them will notice. They?ll all just pass on through. No secret spices […]
The Costly Pursuit of Power
The church is at present in the midst of the season of Epiphany, which begins on January 6 and extends until the day before Lent. Epiphany means manifestation or appearance. Thus, it is a time to consider the implications of the appearance of Christ, the Son of God, in our world. The first event usually […]
Living As an Answer
What Fuels Mission?
Ain’t nobody got time to sit around a campfire and sing Kumbaya. Poverty. Sex trafficking. Starvation. People who don’t know Jesus. We have to get to work because people are dying. Sometimes, prayer needs to take a back seat, after all, with so much work to be done. The worst thing we could do […]
Leading by Adding Value
Next?month, I?ll reach the?seven years of employment mark with The Leadership Institute.? If there?s a tenet of our ministry that I?ve appreciated the most over the years, it?s the idea that all of us, whether we like it or not, are leaders. ?That’s because all of us, whether we like it or not, have some […]
