E-Monsters In The Home
How much money are you willing to throw away during the course of a day?
Not give away or spend or share or lose to a bad investment? I’m talking about money you pull out of your pocket, throw on the ground and walk away from. Maybe we should call that “money left on the ground” or better yet “leaked.” It isn’t misspent or frivolously used, like when you make a bad financial decision. It’s just not there, as if you never had it to begin with.
So, how much of your hard earned money are you willing to treat as if you never had it in the first place? Four or five dollars a day? Maybe just one? Most people, I’m sure, are thinking none but are you aware… Read more
Dad Got One Thing Wrong
Don’t misunderstand. I loved and respected my Dad very much. He had his faults, everyone does, but he was generally a reliable bread winner, cared about us, his family, and there were some things about Dad I admire to this day, one of which was his skill at gardening. He loved his gardening!
Unfortunately, there was one thing he got wrong. When I was a youngster, he said I too would develop a love for gardening one day – “growing things in the ground” was the way he put it. He repeated that sentiment many times and it was usually while I was grumbling about being forced to pull weeds, cut grass and rake leaves. I’m a married man of many years now with two grown sons and some grand kids of my own and I’m still waiting for that day. Read more
Financial Growth Strategies
When it comes to Christian living, there are two areas that each believer must revisit regularly: financial growth and church growth. These things are hard to get right and require constant monitoring.
We weren’t born with a fully developed strategy for financial growth and we weren’t born AGAIN with a healthy concept of church growth and we don’t readily recognize the connection between the two. But they do connect.
- One measures the health of your secular life; the other measures the health of your spiritual life.
- Financial growth provides resources to fuel church growth and growing churches teach people principles for managing finances properly.
We must not neglect these two issues. This post will focus on financial health. Read more
“The Future of Management” by Gary Hamel
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Normally, “management” wouldn’t be listed as one of the top ten most exciting topics to discuss on a blog but it deserves a hearing here because Gary Hamel does something revolutionary with the subject. He dismantles everything we have been taught on the issue and begins building again from the ground up (a perspective that really comes alive in the text).
His book, “The Future of Management
Gary’s writing is aimed mostly at commercial organizations but the principles are universal. They can be applied to any group of organized individuals: schools, government or even church, and the truth is, they all need to rethink how they operate.
Today’s world will be obsolete in a couple of years, at most, and for businesses to successfully survive the change – or anyone else for that matter - they will need to develop processes that are highly tuned to grass roots developments, in real time, and have the agility to respond as required. If these ideas leave you incredulous watch the video. Read more
The Meek Inherit the Earth?
Jesus never used the word success. Rather He referred to the emotional outcome of success, which was blessed or happy, and He mentioned several things that would produce this result.
Being poor in spirit
Mourning
Being merciful
Being pure in heart
Making peace,
Thirsting and hungering for righteousness
And enduring persecution.
He also mentioned Meekness, which is what I would like to discuss here. Read more
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