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Tradition to Transformation

Tradition or Transformation By Ed McDowell

The Transition from Tradition to Transformation Jesus responds to concerns about dishonoring long-standing traditions by focusing on transformation. “Some Pharisees and teachers of religious law now arrived from Jerusalem to see Jesus. They asked him, “Why do your disciples disobey our age-old tradition? For they ignore our tradition of ceremonial hand washing before they eat.”…

Outcomes Conference 2025

Outcomes Conference 2025 and Those Who Made it Possible

The Alliance Community Celebrates the Outcomes Conference 2025 We are grateful to all who joined us for the Outcomes Conference 2025 and thank all who made this event possible. Every year, it is the best expression of what this community represents. All participants and contributors bring their best for the good of all. Leaders come…

Deal with your issues, first.

Please Deal with Your Issues First By Ed McDowell

Strong Leaders to Prioritize Their Issues First Leaders have the responsibility and authority to address issues in others thoughtfully. When addressing something in someone else’s life, consider Jesus’ instruction.  Deal with Your Issues First “And why worry about a speck in your friend’s eye when you have a log in your own? How can you…

Experience Guides 2025

The Remarkable Outcomes Conference 25 Experience Guides

Meet This Year’s Experience Guides! If you are coming to the Outcomes Conference 2025, our Experience Guides are ready to serve you. And you can’t join us this year, these are remarkable people we want everyone to know! These leaders are dear to us, and we give thanks for how they turn our hearts and…

Will you work harder or work smarter?

“I Will Work Harder” By Alec Hill

What Animal Farm Teaches Us About the Will to Work Harder. How many times have you said, “I will work harder?” Recently, I reread George Orwell’s classic novel Animal Farm. A heroic horse named Boxer jumps off the page. Whenever the community needs him, he says, “I will work harder.” Repeatedly, he comes through in…

Genesis, The Call and the The Mandate

Our Mandate to Rule, Create, and Cultivate By Dr. Zenet Maramara

Our Calling and The Stewardship Mandate God’s first mandate to humanity, found in Genesis, is often called the creation or cultural mandate. This foundational calling entrusts humanity with the care of creation and establishes our stewardship mandate: “Then God said, ‘Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule…

Practicing aloneness

The Discipline of Aloneness By Reggie McNeal

Great Leaders Practice Aloneness Great spiritual leaders experience something far more profound than loneliness. It is aloneness. Aloneness is not a trial that is endured; it is a practice built into the leader’s life. The Crucible of Wilderness There is a level of soul-making that occurs only in solitude. The scriptures call this “wilderness” and…

Kat Armstrong at Outcomes 25

Meet Kat Armstrong: Outcomes 25 Highlight

Kat Armstrong and A Passion to Speak the Truth in Love Kat Armstrong loves God’s Word and is passionate about the transforming power of Biblical truth in our daily lives! The Christian Leadership Alliance presents the 49th Annual Outcomes Conference on April 29 – May 1, 2025. Kat will grace the main stage for the Women’s Luncheon,…

I Belong

Who Do You Belong To? By Reggie McNeal

Great Leaders Know Who They Belong To and Why Great leaders belong. They belong to their families, their friends, their coworkers, their mentors, and their followers. This sense of belonging provides them with both an anchor and a platform for their leadership. It shapes and informs their identity. Their relationships and the quality of the…

Power and Privilege

Power and Privilege By Andrea Leigh Capuyan

A Steward’s Perspective on Power and Privilege Power and privilege in the life of a leader must be understood and scrutinized if we wish to steward goodness and beauty in our relationships, organizations, and society. I reflect on the state of the modern world; I am struck by how easily we are flippant about the…

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