#345 Paul’s Leadership Pipeline: Stretch Them
March 8, 2023 Paul’s vision required a leadership pipeline that would continue to raise up mature leaders. So, as we have seen, he chose them, prepared them, showed them the way, and empowered them. One of the ways he empowered others was to give them assignments that stretched them. An example of this is seen […]
#322 A Flourishing World: Work is purposeful
April 13, 2022 God created a flourishing world abounding with life and beauty. He created abundant plants and all kinds of animals and then added humans made in His own image. God assigned specific roles to the man and woman. 28 God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the […]
#320 A Flourishing World: People are valued
March 16, 2022 The first ingredient in a world that flourishes is that people are valued. God created a marvelous world, filled with animals, plants and amazing beauty. All His creation had value. But the people He created had infinitely more value. 26 Then God said, “Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, […]
#319 A Flourishing World: God’s Design
March 2, 2022 God designed our world to flourish. Not to simply exist or survive, but to thrive! He created a flourishing world. 1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. 20 And God said, “Let the water teem with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the vault of […]
#312 Serving Leaders ask those who follow: “What should you start doing?”
October 27, 2021 As we saw in the last issue serving leaders examine their own lives to see where they need to start doing new things. But they also look at Paul’s instructions with their followers in mind. 22 You were taught, with regard to your former way of life, to put off your old […]