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Farewell
In this week’s post, I want to take the time to reflect on the last three months, in particular the group blogging experience. So where do you start? Difficulties: Well, I’ve been blogging now for 6 months and I have to admit, it hasn’t been easy. Apart from the what-am-I-going-to-write-next issue, I found that it [...]
Keep on Keeping on…
In light of a busy schedule, I will only be able to write briefly in this post. I would like to share a verse which has been a blessing in these busy times… “And let us not grow weary of doing good, for in due season we will reap, if we do not give up.” [...]
Leading Management
Leadership, in many ways, is very similar to management. Leadership, like management requires influence, working with people, and a concern with effective goal accomplishment. But leadership differs to management: “Kotter (1990) argues that the functions of the two are quite dissimilar. The overriding function of management is to provide order and consistency to organizations, whereas [...]
I ‘Have’ Power
“Power is the capacity or potential to influence. People have the power when they have the ability to affect others’ beliefs, attitudes, and courses of action…” In this article we will be simply touching on the concept of power. The idea of management versus leadership will be written about in the following week, rather than in [...]
X Leads, Why?
“Leadership is a word on everyone’s lips. The young attack it and police seek it. Experts claim it and artists spurn it, while scholars want it… bureaucrats pretend they have it, politicians wish they did. Everybody agrees that there is less of it that there used to be”- Warren Bennis Thanks to those who have [...]
Y Lead
For the next eight months, I have been privileged to be part of the YLead program. This program is designed to help young ANGLICARE staff from various positions of leadership to develop the understanding of what it may mean for them to exercise more effective and sustainable leadership in their own lives, communities, churches or [...]
Dependence
Here is a quote I found that really challenged me on whether or not I was relying on God… “We are looking for our own virtue, our own piety, our own goodness, and so live on and in our own poverty and weakness – today pleased and comforted with the seeming firmness and strength of [...]
The Writer’s Pen
I’ve never considered myself to be an avid writer, but I do enjoy expressing my thoughts on paper and analysing what I am thinking. Playing music is another way I enjoy expressing thoughts and feelings I may be experiencing. Expression is something very much innate in every human being. It is through expression we communicate [...]
Shhh… Who’s Talking?
“Little children, you are from God and have overcome them, for he who is in you is greater than he who is in the world.” (1 John 4:4, ESV) I have never met a Christian who has ever denied verbally that God is great, that God loves, that God forgives, that God is sovereign, that [...]
Loved
Hosea, the minor prophet, ministered in a time when the Northern kingdom was enjoying peace and prosperity. Unfortunately with this prosperity came great moral decay and as a result, Israel forsook their God and worshiped idols. So God instructed Hosea to marry Gomer, a “wife of whoredom” (1:2), to be an example to Israel of their [...]
What Big Picture?
“He’s missing the forest for the trees” is a saying which means that a person can get so caught up with the details that they end up missing the main point. Time and time again I have seen myself fall into this trap where the little things, though important, become the only focus in life. [...]
The Prayer of a Seventeen Year Old Quaker Girl
I stumbled across this prayer one morning during my devotional time. It caused me to think about the way I pray. I found myself asking questions like, “Do I see myself as God sees me?”, “Do I appreciate what God has done for me?”, and “Do I want to let God remove these proud tendencies [...]
