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Love's Preparation

June 12, 2010

By Evelyn W. Davison

June is known as Lover's Month.   Engaged people often take months and sometimes years to plan a wedding.  They are obsessed with preparation. The bride is consumed with the right dress, her size, her hair, etc. The groom is paddling along just trying to just hold on thinking about the right things—the honeymoon, where they will live, food, and family!

Both want everyone to be there and everything to be right. Why? They expect to be perfect for each other.  Nothing out of place—nothing left undone. No disasters! Everything bright and beautiful!

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June 12, 2010 | View or add comments

How Do Leaders Pray When They Don't Know What To Pray

April 30, 2010

By Gerry Wakeland

Have you ever been in a season where you just didn't know how to pray? Or maybe you just couldn't pray. No matter how hard you tried the words just didn't come and if they did they just did not seem adequate. What do you do when that happens?

Recently I was in Chicago. I had my two grandsons in the back of the car and we were heading to the zoo when we came to an intersection. This was not just any normal intersection; it was one of those intersections where at least 3 streets come together. There were cars and traffic lights in every direction. The street signs were bewildering. I have a feeling that someone had been tweaking them to confuse us out-of-towners.

In that moment as I sat at the light I realized that I had just seconds to make a decision. What do I do? Which way do I go?

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April 30, 2010 | View or add comments

Looking for Love Leaders

April 14, 2010

By Evelyn W. Davison

Life in America this year has been a blowing and snowing one. In February there was snow in every state of the union except Hawaii. Spring is here, and in Texas and across our heartland we are experiencing storms. Big storms!

One young lady in Dallas faced quite a challenge the week of Easter. It was snowing heavily and blowing to the point that visibility was almost zero when she got off work. She made her way to her car and wondered how she was going to make it home.

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April 14, 2010 | View or add comments

Leading Like Jesus

January 10, 2010

By Alan Fadling

In this season of reflection and writing, I've been focusing a lot on Jesus. I wonder about how He led. Did he do it like a modern C.E.O.? I also think about the structures of His community. Were they mostly organizational structures or organism structures? Business structures or community structures?

What kind of structure best supports the work of ministry? Every church I've served or attended has drawn fairly heavily from contemporary business practices for its structure. This tends to create a bias towards more organizational than organic approach to life and ministry.

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January 10, 2010 | View or add comments

Are You Hitting Your Goals?

September 8, 2009

By Tama Westman

I saw this tip from Mark Victor Hansen, co-creator of the Chicken Soup for the Soul series, while I was flipping through the pages of the October issue of Success Magazine (If you don't yet subscribe to Success, I encourage you to up your game today with this monthly issue of some of the best leadership advice going).

According to Hansen, you can create a life-goal list in as little as 15 minutes. Sounds easy. Here's how:

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September 8, 2009 | View or add comments

Pursuit of Excellence

May 5, 2009

By Evelyn W. Davison

While knocking on the doors of seniority, I have experienced a lot of pursuits in my life. I am a great "pursuiter."  Guess that is part of my being Sanguine-Choleric.

It was such a big part of life when my boys were growing up that one year they gave me a policeman's whistle for Christmas.  They addressed the gift tag to "Sgt. Mother."

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May 5, 2009 | View or add comments

Driven by Vision, Fueled by God

March 26, 2009

By Tama Westman

God be merciful to us and bless us, and cause His face to shine upon us, that Your way be known on earth, Your salvation among all nations. – Psalm 67: 1-2 (NKJ)

As a Christian communicator, the above verse from Psalm 67 is the bottom line. The Lord blesses each of us with unique gifts and talents, and it becomes our responsibility and privilege to employ these gifts and talents to minister to and serve His children.

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March 26, 2009 | View or add comments

Relevance of Speaking and Writing to Leading

July 21, 2008

By Evelyn W. Davison

RELEVANCE OF SPEAKING AND WRITING TO LEADING.
CLASS is a heart setter for life, because it does not just give motivation or correction for writing or speaking, but gives direction for living and leading.

Relevancy in speaking and writing can be mundane in nature, but “leadership” is a new love field. It is the place we live out our life before a great cloud of witnesses.

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July 21, 2008 | View or add comments

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