FEBRUARY 28 • TRUE LEADERSHIP Level 5 Leadership: Pinnacle The point is this: whoever sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and whoever sows bountifully will also reap bountifully. 2 Corinthians 9:6 Time gives you options — lack of time does not. Interesting formula and fact: lets say you’re 22 years old, just graduated from […]
FEBRUARY 27 • TRUE LEADERSHIP Everything Compounds The point is this: whoever sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and whoever sows bountifully will also reap bountifully. 2 Corinthians 9:6 Time gives you options — lack of time does not. Interesting formula and fact: lets say you’re 22 years old, just graduated from college, or […]
FEBRUARY 26 • TRUE LEADERSHIP Leaders Eat Last Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends. John 15:13 In the 1954 movie White Christmas, there is a scene where Bob & Phil (male leads) are sitting at dinner looking across the room at their old […]
FEBRUARY 25 • TRUE LEADERSHIP Healthy Space Iron sharpens iron, and one man sharpens another. Proverbs 27:17 Imagine walking into your basement and never noticing the black mold growing around your baseboard. Or not knowing that the building you teach elementary students in has a whole layer of asbestos they never knew about. Our […]
FEBRUARY 24 • TRUE LEADERSHIP Level 4 Leadership: People Development And let us not grow weary of doing good, for in due season we will reap, if we do not give up. Galatians 6:9 So what do I mean by People Development? I mean more of your leadership time goes to developing your team in […]
FEBRUARY 23 • TRUE LEADERSHIP Responsibility & Authority God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control. 1 Timothy 1:7 Cake and ice cream. Macaroni and cheese. Peanut butter and jelly. Beanie and Cecil (?). Great things that go together. Responsibility and authority are in the same league. […]
FEBRUARY 22 • TRUE LEADERSHIP Giving & Taking Criticism The ear that listens to life-giving reproof will dwell among the wise. Proverbs 15:31 My dad taught me I should only give constructive criticism — whether it’s positive or negative, make your words constructive — give people something to work with! Let’s start with taking […]
FEBRUARY 21 • TRUE LEADERSHIP Tough Love in Leadership For the moment all discipline seems painful rather than pleasant, but later it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it. Hebrews 12:11 Up until this point I have talked about the kindness, gentleness, faithfulness, the Fruit of the […]
FEBRUARY 20 • TRUE LEADERSHIP To Don’t Lists “All things are lawful for me,” but not all things are helpful. “All things are lawful for me,” but I will not be dominated by anything. 1 Corinthians 6:12 To DO lists are important — they allow you to accomplish and not have to keep anything […]
FEBRUARY 19 • TRUE LEADERSHIP Lead By Example Shepherd the flock of God that is among you, exercising oversight, not under compulsion, but willingly, as God would have you; not for shameful gain, but eagerly; not domineering over those in your charge, but being examples to the flock. 1 Peter 5:2 As leaders, people […]