Editor’s Note: The Journey of Recovery was birthed out of God’s call to Kris Jensen to create a program applying Journey principles to the process of addiction recovery. Kris first reached out to David Zailer, who had already been leading people in recovery for 18 years. Several years later, Gary Jones and Brian Steenhoek also […]
The Church Has Left the Building
And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds not giving up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but encouraging one another–and all the more as you see the Day approaching. Heb 10:24-25 NIV – 24 Remember the little children’s hand motion: Here’s the church. Here’s […]
Reflecting the Light
A few months ago, my car battery died while in line waiting to get gas at Costco – very inconvenient, to say the least. When it became obvious I wasn?t going to move, the cars behind me began going around me. No one asked if there was a problem or if they could help. They […]
God?s Unexpected Methods of Leadership Development
?[Quoting Charles Spurgeon] Have none of you ever noticed, in your own lives, that whenever God is going to give you an enlargement, and bring you out to a larger sphere of service, or a higher platform of spiritual life, you always get thrown down? That is His usual way of working; He makes you […]
Give the Gift of Listening
“Being listened to is so close to being loved that most people cannot tell the difference.? (David of Augsburg) A truly good listener is hard to find. ?Have you ever been with someone, and as they listened to you, you felt as though you were the only person in the room?? The person listening had […]
Prayer: I Know You
Many years ago, I was having a conversation with a very dear friend. She was telling me some things about myself that I had not directly told her before. No one could have known, because I had not shared with anyone. She was quite observant, but I was still surprised when she shared with me […]
Lead With Your Ears
Perhaps you can help me out of a conundrum? You see, I?m really interested in leadership development; it?s a passion of mine. I?ve read nearly every book one can read on leadership from Peter Drucker to Dr. Seuss (yes, Dr. Seuss gave us many wonderful thoughts that can be applied to leadership). But, when I […]
