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Tag: thankfulness
Spiritual Life
How to Celebrate Thanksgiving Well . . . Even if It’s Not Happy
How can you live with thanksgiving even if you don't feel like it this Thanksgiving?
TIPS
Small Group Leadership TIPS of the Week(s): January 11-22, 2016
Small Group Leadership TIPS of the past 2 weeks as Tweeted, posted on the Small Group Leadership Facebook page, and posted on LinkedIn. (Last week I taught a one-week "intensive" Small Group Ministry and Discipleship seminary class at Cincinnati Christian...
TIPS
Small Group Leadership TIPS of the Week: 11/23-27/2015
Small Group Leadership TIPS of the past week as Tweeted, posted on the Small Group Leadership Facebook page, and posted on LinkedIn. * * * * * * *Monday, 11/23: Each day this week, send a letter or email or...
Small Group Leaders
Seven Ways Your Small Group Can Celebrate the Incarnation This Holiday Season
What is your small group doing over the holidays? "Many groups struggle with meeting and studying over the holidays, and this can be detrimental to the health of your group," I wrote in my November column in The Christian Standard...
Leader's Heart-Overflow
Want to Be a Great Leader? Live with Integrity!
Our world is in desperate need for leaders with integrity. A healthy leader whom God will use to carry out his mission, bearing lasting fruit, is a person of high integrity. But you already knew that, didn't you? Yet here's...
SG Movement/History
Lyman’s Legacy
I wrote yesterday about Lyman Coleman and his thoughts on small groups as an assimilation strategy for the church. Today, I want to share some more personal thoughts about Lyman. I first met Lyman Coleman in 1992 when I wrote...
Spiritual Life
Thankful Through the Valley
I am thankful today that I have the privilege of having a loving Father who is BIG and powerful! Bigger than any circumstance or situation, more powerful than anyone or anything that comes against me. I'm thankful that though he...
Spiritual Life
Thanking God for Temporary
Temporary is a sweet sweet word. When Jesus told people not to worry but to seek first the kingdom of God, he was telling them, and us, that stuff is only temporary. When Jesus healed people of their diseases, he...
Spiritual Life
Thankful for God’s Jealousy, Vengeance, & Anger
I am thankful today for God's jealousy, vengeance, and anger. I haven't always felt that way. In the past, as I've studied the Old Testament and read about God being a jealous God, seeing his anger burn against the people...