FIVE LEVELS OF LEADERSHIP John Maxwell identifies five levels of leadership through which success is accomplished: Level 1: Position - the appointment to a responsibility with a title. The focus is on rights. Level 2:…
Sermon Illustrations
STUCK IN THE PAST The paralyzing fear for many clinging to the past is moving into an unknown future. There's an irony in this. While we think we're moving into an elusive future, all we're…
WRONG JOBS A sea captain and his chief engineer were arguing over who was most important to the ship. To prove their point to each other, they decided to swap places. The chief engineer ascended…
TEAMWORK ACCOMPLISHED Stephen Schey and Walt Kallestad present a means of accomplishing teamwork in the following manner: Training- keeping up with current skills and techniques; Empowering- permission to take risks to provide solutions; Assisting- removing…
TEAM, TIME, & TRUST Leadership teams that build trust are teams that spend time together. There is no substitute for this time together. Trust is dependent upon a narrative of events that builds up the…
SERVANT ELDERS Elders are to be servant leaders, not rulers or dictators. God doesn't want His people to be used by petty, self-serving tyrants. Servant elders have chosen a life of service on behalf of…
USING TIME Time is a strange concept. We can't stop it-not even if we unplug every clock and break every watch in the world. And we can't really save it. No one has ever stared…
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STUBBORN OR PERSISTENT They call you stubborn when you fail, but persistent when you succeed. Anonymous, Forbes, November 3, 1997, p. 420
SUCCEEDING IN LIFE To succeed in life it's not who you know but what you know. At least that's the way it's supposed to be.
SEASON PAST THANKSGIVING DAY A professional football team had just finished their daily practice, when a large turkey came strutting onto the practice field. While the players watched in amazement, the turkey walked up to…
ENJOYMENT IN PRAISE In reflecting on his memories and pleasant memories of his departed wife, C. S. Lewis wrote the following concerning those memories and the continuing benefits they conveyed: Praise is the mode of…
CELEBRATION IS NOT QUIET Elizabeth Traff from Rochester, Minnesota, writing to Christian Parenting Magazine, told about how she amused herself with her instructions to her four-year-old daughter Emily. She told Emily to please stop talking.…
RECEIVING SMALL THINGS GREATLY He is invited to great things who receives small things greatly. Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus Institutiones found in Familiar Quotes, by John Bartlett, p. 148
FAITH AS A LOVE AFFAIR The absence of praise is a sign of mediocre faith. In G. K. Chesterton's words, it reveals that our religion is "more a theory than a love affair." By Mallone,…
BALANCING HUMILITY & JOY You write much about your own sins. Beware . . . lest humility should pass over into anxiety or sadness. It is bidden us to 'rejoice and always rejoice.' Jesus has…
BE THANKFUL By Ivana Chap��kov� Be thankful that you don't already have everything you desire. If you did, what would there be to look forward to? Be thankful when you don't know something, for it…
NO NEED FOR PRAYER Father Burke looked over the class and then asked Sean: "Do you say a prayer before meals in your house?" "We don't have to, Father. Me mother is a good cook."…
THANKSGIVING IN AMERICA It is good to give thanks to the LORD, and to sing praises to Thy name O most high; to declare Thy loving kindness in the morning, and Thy faithfulness by night.…
EXPECTING NOTHING Do everything with a mind that lets go. Do not expect praise or reward. -- Achaan Chah
THANKSGIVING DAY POEM Over the river, and through the woods, to Grandfather's house we go; the horse knows the way to carry the sleigh through the white and drifting snow. Over the river, and through…
