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The Difference Between a Critical and Merciful Heart By Dr. Bob Snyder
← Back to Blog Do you lean towards critical or merciful? How can you tell if you have a critical heart or a merciful heart? Jesus reminds me that I often pass judgment on others and avoid examining myself. I plead guilty! Ruminating over the minor issues in others is much easier and perversely “satisfying”…
Read MoreRealignment in Leadership By Larry Gadbaugh
Realignment in Leadership is Essential Realignment is an essential discipline for leaders. Especially coming through this season of moral, cultural, economic, political, and ideological upheaval. It’s Necessary Realignment is a necessary part of vehicle maintenance. Especially when we’re constantly running into potholes and hitting road debris. We recently took our car in for an alignment.…
Read MoreYour Most Valuable Quality During Year-End By Shelley Cochrane
Keep the Right Focus at Year-End The year-end giving season is a busy time when development staff works fast and furiously to keep donor processes running smoothly. Rightly, you concentrate on shoring up data entry processes, fixing payment processing issues, updating website pages, and making address changes. These processes are critical. What Matters Most But…
Read MorePlan for Holiday Self-Care By Mike Haarer
Participate in NOvember For the Holiday We all know that the holiday season can tend to be a stressful time of year if we are not intentional about managing how we spend our time and energy. The busyness of the season affects all areas of our personal and professional lives. As leaders, it is wise…
Read MoreFaith Fundamentals By Jon Lewis
Stewarding Faith Fundamentals Faith fundamentals are worthy of our attention. Recently I came across the latest biannual survey results from Ligonier Ministries and Lifeway Research that measures the theological temperature of the evangelical church in the United States. Although the statistics on attitude shifts within the general U.S. adult population were predictable, the data corresponding…
Read MoreBe An Adaptive Leader By Lee Ellis
You can learn to be an adaptive leader! How many times over the last year did you hear this from others? If there ever was a time during which you’ve had to adapt in ministry, it’s been the last 24 months. Let’s continue talking about it from a different angle that I think you’ll appreciate.…
Read MoreMultiplying Faithful and Generous Stewards By Dr. Zenet Maramara
Becoming Faithful Stewards Set Free to Lead Those of you who are faithfully engaged in professional fundraising know that this job is a never-ending cycle of acquiring, cultivating, asking, engaging, and maintaining relationships with partners and financial givers. Fundraising work never lets up. Year after year, we have targets and financial goals to achieve.…
Read MoreThe Risks of Working Remote by Brian H. Merriam
Understand the Risks of Supporting Remote Employees Before the COVID-19 pandemic remote working from home was, of course, quite rare… after all, the workplace is where workers belong, right? Well, of course after March of 2020 the rules of employment work patterns changed: employers wanted their staff to continue to do what needed to be…
Read MoreConsulting and The Informed Choice By Mark L. Vincent
Discover the Power in Process Consulting In recent years the work of Ed Schein began to distinguish between the expertise and knowledge often plied as the trade of consulting, and the more iterative method of bringing curiosity and co-creating the needed work with the Client. What is now known as the field of Process Consulting…
Read MoreThe Danger of Possessions By Wesley K. Willmer
What’s your perspective on your possessions? Did you know that possessions are mentioned in Scripture three times more than love, seven times more than prayer, and eight times more than belief? Clearly, the link between stewards and their stuff is very important to God, and the manner in which the topic appears reveals that believers…
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