Month: July 2011

A Keeper Quote…

A year ago today Sonja and I were involved in the Church of God Chaplain’s Commission’s bi-annual conference. Sonja recorded in her journal the words of military Chaplains’ wife Tami Gibson… “As a military chaplain’s wif... »

The Way to Purity

One of the things i do each day is read from Oswald Chambers' devotional, My Utmost for His Highest. This was the devotion today. It spoke profoundly to me, so i thought i would share it with you, as well.262011Those things which proceed out of the mouth come from the heart . . . . For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies. Th... »

why are young ministers leaving the #ourCOG ? We are a group of "ill prospects" ( #LikeAMightyArmy , 13)

why are young ministers leaving the #ourCOG ? We are a group of "ill prospects" ( #LikeAMightyArmy , 13) »

5 subtle misconceptions of leaders

Here is an incomplete list of “little foxes that can spoil the (leadership) vine”. I can do my own thing. A leader’s “thing” is not her own. Her thing is her followers’ thing. Followers are why leaders exist. Apart from them, a leader has nothing. Any leader that forgets this is history, and a forgotten [...] »