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  • Great Leaders Use Both Results and Relating

    Great Leaders Use Both Results and Relating
    Sep 30 2025
    There is a POWERFUL (Separate) element, but the power is not from us, it is from God. He is the authority and He uses leaders as a channel of His authority. Just like God's power, leaders are to use power to free others, not control them. The power is used to serve others not be served. The RELATIONAL (Belonging) element of leadership is utilized when leaders rely on God's power, because that allows a leader to relate. You can be gentle and serving when you rely on God's power, but if you try to be powerful or show that you are in charge, that will prevent you from being gentle or serving. Worse yet, it tends to create a structure of rebellion in people towards you.
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    30 min
  • Leadership Encourages Freedom Not Control

    Leadership Encourages Freedom Not Control
    Sep 23 2025
    Leadership is not what you might think it is. Most people have the stereo-type of leaders needing to be "large and in charge". While some good leaders are that way, that is not what makes them good or even great (GR8!).
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    30 min
  • How to Improve Your Listening

    How to Improve Your Listening
    Sep 16 2025
    Yep, that's what I said. Your mind is geared for pictures more than words and, if you want to understand someone, really listen to them - turn their words into pictures. Yes, I understand that you still need to hear them, but the phrase "turn off the sound" gets you to focus more on what pictures you are seeing rather than trying to hear individual words.
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    30 min
  • Most Underrated Relationship Skill

    Most Underrated Relationship Skill
    Sep 9 2025
    Think about it, humility is the most underrated attribute, so it makes sense that humility would be tied to the most underrated skill. The formula for listening starts with a simple question, "Will I make this about them, and not about me?"
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    30 min
  • Who Does God Resist?

    Who Does God Resist?
    Sep 2 2025
    Good definitions make a big difference. When you read the definition of humility in a dictionary, it may help, but most likely not. So, let's use this simple 3 word definition - strength under control. That's often used to define "meek" and it's appropriate for "humble" also.
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    30 min
  • Who or What Is Your Authority?

    Who or What Is Your Authority?
    Aug 26 2025
    God allows us to participate in His divine nature (2 Peter 1:3) and He is not only good, He is PERFECT! Everything that He does has no spot or blemish - even those times where we are struggling with pain and wondering how this can be best for us.
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    30 min
  • If You Don’t Love Yourself, Then…

    If You Don’t Love Yourself, Then…
    Aug 19 2025
    I remember back in the 1960's and '70's how a number of Christian writers and thinkers were pushing Jesus' command of "love your neighbor as yourself". You might be thinking, "That's great", but actually it wasn't. They were promoting the incorrect thinking that you needed to love yourself before you could love others.
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    30 min
  • Are Marriages Getting Better or Worse?

    Are Marriages Getting Better or Worse?
    Aug 12 2025
    Ever wondered what marriage was like when Paul wrote the classic letter to the Ephesian believers? How did "wives, submit to your own husband" and "husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church" sound to the women and men in Ephesus?
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    30 min